SEC’s Rule 15c3-5 and MiFID Review Top the Regulatory Agenda at A-Team’s BTLLT Conference in London

The Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) 14 July deadline for compliance with its Rule 15c3-5, which governs pre-trade risk management, and the ongoing MiFID Review in Europe were highlighted as key concerns by panellists at A-Team Group’s Business & Technology of Low-Latency Trading (BTLLT) event in London this week. High frequency traders are especially concerned about the extension of MiFID to many new areas as a result of the review process, said Benjamin Stephens, electronic trading and quantitative prime brokerage origination at Nomura International.

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20 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
 
China’s Guosen Securities Selects Kx Database to Power Algo Trading System

Guosen Securities, a top tier investment bank in China, has signed an OEM license deal with Kx Systems for its kdb+ database. The deal marks Guosen’s move into algo trading and Kx’s first OEM arrangement in China where it already has other direct clients among local and international investment banks.

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18 Jan 2011
 
Kx Taps Multi-Core for “Intelligent” Data Compression

Version 2.7 of Kx Systems’ kdb+ database leverages multi-core servers to implement file compression, while also featuring enhanced memory management and a performance increase of up to 20%. The file compression addresses the need to store growing data volumes for both trading and risk analytics and regulatory requirements.

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02 Sep 2010
 
Quant Fund EXQIM Selects OneTick to Support Equity Strategy Development

Nascent asset manager Exclusive Quantitative Investment Management (EXQIM) has selected OneMarketData’s OneTick complex event processing (CEP) and database software to underpin quantitative strategy development and deployment in the US and European equities markets.

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30 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
 

 
 

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