Pete’s Blog - Delaying The Inevitable

Bowing to market pressure, it seems that the SEC has given the financial trading community a little extra time to implement the so-called Market Access Rule covering pre-trade risk. Instead of a July 14 deadline, trading firms, brokerages and exchanges now have a November 30 date to work to. No doubt a welcome move for those working at those organisations, who can now have a beer or two this coming holiday weekend.

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28 Jun 2011
 
It’s Not Always About Pure Performance, Usability is Key for Trading Technology, Agrees BTLLT Panel

Stuart Grant SybaseBuilding a low latency trading architecture is not just about high performance and speed, it is also about usability, agreed panellists debating ‘Deploy Fast, And Build to Last’ at this week’s Business & Technology of Low-Latency Trading (BTLLT) event in London. However, there was some debate between panellists from TraderServe and Sybase about the shelf life of an algorithm: figures ranged from four days to four years.

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21 Apr 2011
 
Pete’s Blog - StreamBase Lowers Latency, Speeds Up Development

With the release of version 7 of its complex event processing (CEP) offering, StreamBase Systems is taking a swipe at latency while addressing usability to make creation of applications faster and easy enough for a business user to tackle.

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13 Apr 2011
 
Singapore Broker Partners RTS Realtime Systems to Offer Algo Trading

Singapore picSingapore based financial house PhillipCapital is rolling out RTS Realtime Systems’ low latency, event-based algorithmic trading solutions for the customers of its stock broking subsidiary Phillip Securities. The algo arrangement has been made ahead of the planned opening of Singapore Exchange’s Reach trading platform in August 2011 (see more on which here). The exchange claims the platform will be the fastest in the world.

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17 Mar 2011
 
Pete’s Blog - Wall Street FPGA Applies Hardware Acceleration to FIX

Well, FIX Cancel messages, to be precise. A just-released white paper from Wall Street FPGA - a company whose focus is pretty self explanatory from its name - details how Field Programmable Gate Arrays (or FPGAs) can be used along with the open source QuickFIX engine to rapidly fire off cancel messages to matching engines.

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09 Mar 2011
 
Conference Report: FIXatdl Finds Favor in Sell-Side; Not So Much for OMS/EMS Vendors

While sell-side firms are eager adopters, OMS and EMS vendors have been slow to embrace an algorithmic trading language from the FIX Protocol Organisation, which helps them quickly adapt their systems to new algorithms, according to a panel at A-Team Group’s Insight Exchange conference on High Performance Technologies for Trading and Risk, held in New York this week.

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01 Oct 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
 

 
 

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