Opinion: Why Algorithmic Trading Has a Big Future in India

By Dr. Giles Nelson, deputy CTO of Progress Software

When people talk about algorithmic trading destinations, India doesn’t spring immediately to mind. But the country is fast becoming an economic powerhouse. Population has doubled in the last 40 years to 1.2 billion. Economic growth has averaged more than 7% a year since 1997, and is projected at more 8% for 2010. Indeed, by some measures, India has the fourth biggest economy in the world.

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11 Aug 2010
 
IBM Pitches Financial Markets Framework; Pre-Integrates Hardware, Software for Trading, Risk and More …

With the recent launch of its Financial Markets Framework, IBM is positioning itself as a provider of pre-integrated solutions to trading and investment firms, leveraging its own portfolio of hardware and software offerings, and augmenting them with consulting expertise and partner products. The move follows a direction that the IT giant has already taken in verticals such as banking, insurance, and outside of financial services.

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05 Aug 2010
 
Alliance Asset Management Deploys OneTick in Search for Alpha

Sao Paulo, Brazil-based Alliance Asset Management has gone live with a tick data management and complex event processing (CEP) system from OneMarketData. The proprietary trading specialist commenced production use of the OneTick solution a week ago, using it to “generate alpha researching trading ideas that occur at higher frequencies,” says Vinicius D’alesandro, a partner at the firm.

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29 Jul 2010
 
StreamBase and MarketFactory Tackle Market Data Issues of FX Trading

StreamBase has responded to increasing interest in foreign exchange (FX) trading by teaming up with algorithmic FX trading specialist MarketFactory to speed up ‘time to first trade’ for hedge funds, banks and trading firms accessing the spot FX market.

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19 Jul 2010
 
SunGard Pushes into Fixed Income with Valdi Connectivity to EuroTLX

Philippe Carre SunGard SunGard has extended its Valdi Market Access solution with the addition of a hosted connectivity service to EuroTLX, a Milan based European multilateral trading facility that claims to the first fixed income market in Europe focused on retail investors.

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01 Jul 2010
 
Ullink Pitches HFT in a Box for Lowest Latency Trading

Trading software and connectivity specialist Ullink is working towards a late summer release of its “HFT in a Box” offering, which will combine a number of functions, including market data handlers, trading gateways, client algorithms, pre-trade risk controls and network connectivity, on to a single server, in order to minimise latency in the overall package.

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18 Jun 2010
 
Kairos Asset Management Adds Futures Strategies to StreamBase CEP Platform

Kairos Asset Management (KAM), a Sao Paulo, Brazil-based company, with US$100 million under management, has confirmed its commitment to the StreamBase complex event processing (CEP) platform by adding futures strategies to the high frequency equities trading strategies it already runs on the platform (see its earlier deployment here).

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16 Jun 2010
 

 
 

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