Last week, I chaired A-Team’s first Business & Technology of Low-Latency Trading event - #BTLLT for the twittersphere - at The Brewery (a former Whitbread Brewery, it’s now an established events venue), and these are a few geeky highlights from my day.
The last thing I expected to hear during a panel on low latency technology deployment at this week’s Business & Technology of Low-Latency Trading (catchily dubbed BTLLT by fellow A-Teamers) conference in London was speakers talking about reference data quality. But that’s what happened. Everywhere I go people are talking about data quality.
The idea that Google would be interested in – and is indeed seeking to – acquire Thomson Reuters Markets first came to my attention at the London Stock Exchange, oddly enough. I was there for a function, and after a panel discussion about the future of the exchange marketplace, I got chatting with a gentleman from hedge fund Marshall Wace, who suggested Google could solve our market’s connectivity and hosting issues at the drop of a hat; it just needed a catalyst to show it how the world works.
With the 
Latency, n. The delay between the receipt of a stimulus and the response to it.
Kudos to Hirander Misra and the Algo Group for a stellar panel session this week on the broad topic of “the technology issues of the day,” held in celebrate Algo’s first birthday and AlgoSpan’s deal with the London Stock Exchange to provide connectivity and collocations services to the 
By Neil McGovern, Director of Marketing, Sybase
“The Value of a Millisecond” - the title of a widely quoted April 2008 white paper by my esteemed industry colleague Larry Tabb - is now as obsolete a discussion as is the Renault F1 car that graced its cover. In the world of low latency - just as in F1 - three years of innovation has reset the performance metrics that matter. Winners, and losers, and all that.
Okay, it’s a stretch, but bear with me…
Endace 
If you think Angela Merkel had a tough time convincing the German public to bail out Greece, think what she’s facing as she prepares to tell them that their beloved Xetra trading platform is relocating to a former Ford car park in Basildon, a desolate corner of Southeast Essex. For that is what almost certainly will happen if NYSE Euronext’s stated plan to acquire Deutsche Boerse goes ahead.
Earlier this week [see 
Just because we could, we took lunch on Fleet Street yesterday. I managed to squeeze in a quick haircut at the hairdressers just across the street from the Punch Tavern, then ambled over to Lutyens, the newish chi-chi restaurant housed at – yes, you guessed it – 85 Fleet Street.
Plenty of food for thought this week for those of us who need to think deeply about latency. No, A-Team isn’t wrestling with how to squeeze out interparty latency, cut the tails of its jitter curves or ensure ROI on new high-speed venue connections (although we know many of you are).
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Keeping abreast of the to’ing and fro’ing between the various entities vying for control of NYSE Euronext has added a certain piquancy to simultaneously hosting a panel discussion on Optimising Latency in a Fragmented World at our Business & Technology of Low Latency Trading events this month in London and New York. Assessing the connectivity implications of the current wave of exchange consolidation is a juggling act if ever there was one.
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