Brazil’s Link Selects Progress Apama Algo Trading Platform

Progress Apama has signed up Link Investimentos, its 18th client in Brazil in just 18 months, for its algorithmic trading platform. The deal underscores Progress Apama’s assertion that the local electronic trading market is booming as investment banks and brokerages adopt next-generation trading technologies to enable algorithmic and high-frequency trading strategies.

(more…)

08 Mar 2010
 
Cable & Wireless Targets High-Performance Crowd with Network Upgrade

Cable & Wireless Worldwide has responded to market demand for high-speed exchange connectivity with a new configuration of its International Ethernet Private Line (IEPL) network. The company reckons the newly configured network will meet the needs of high-performance traders by delivering high speed – up to 1Gb per second – as well as predictable and secure ethernet connections.

(more…)

05 Mar 2010
 
Burgundy Adds Fixnetix to Low-Latency Access to Connectivity Options

Nordic multilateral trading facility (MTF) Burgundy’s addition of Fixnetix to its lineup of connectivity suppliers brings the number of connectivity options to five, including Verizon, BT, TNS and IP-Only.

(more…)

01 Mar 2010
 
Special Report: Connecting to Today’s Fast Markets

Download this special report for FREE now! Click the link below.

connectingLow latency connectivity has enjoyed a resurgence of interest as high-performance trading architectures become a reality. Early interest in the low-latency ‘vision’ may have been interrupted by the global financial crisis, but no matter: low latency is back, and providing the catalyst for the explosion in high frequency trading.

As liquidity continues to fragment – in the US and globally – electronic trading operations are demanding connectivity to a broader array of execution venues. As well as traditional exchanges, traders today need access to alternative trading systems, including electronic communications networks, dark pools and multilateral trading facilities (MTFs). Securing and maintaining a robust, high-performance connectivity solution is key to providing comprehensive market access.

(more…)

19 Feb 2010
 
Options IT Adds Exegy Market Data Option to PIPE

Options IT, which offers Infrastructure-as-a-Service for buy-side and sell-side firms, has added market data provided by Exegy’s low-latency ticker plant to its offering, the Options PIPE platform. That platform provides managed server and storage capacity, and network and connectivity facilities, to market participants looking to host their high frequency and algorithmic trading applications.

(more…)

02 Feb 2010
 
Toronto Execution Venues Kickoff 2010 with Latency Focus

Latency - and minimising it - isn’t just a focus among liquidity venues in the New York metro area. North of the border, recent developments at TMX Group and Chi-X Canada demonstrate efforts to make those markets more competitive in what’s becoming a global marketplace.

(more…)

19 Jan 2010
 
Colt’s Fastnet Ultra Optimises Connections Across Key Trading Routes

London-based network services specialist Colt’s announcement this week of its Fastnet Ultra low-latency connectivity for trading firms formalises its solutions for the high-performance space, most visibly implemented to date by Nomura last autumn.

(more…)

14 Jan 2010
 

 
 

Monthly A-Team Insight Review. Subscribers only.
Our quarterly in depth magazine.
Download Free!
 
Podcast: The Data Management Lowdown from TSAM 2010
10 Mar 2010
Video: A-Team Interviews John Jessop About his Book
16 Feb 2010
A-Team Insight Podcast - February 2010
15 Feb 2010
 
Special Report: Connecting to Today's Fast Markets
19 Feb 2010
New Cinnober White Paper: Lowering Door-to-Door Latency to 25 Microseconds within 18 months
18 Nov 2009
Issue 7: Low Latency - Are You Performing? Now Available For Download
26 Jun 2009
Special Report: Complex Event Processing
18 Jun 2009
Issue 6: Low Latency - Are You Performing? Now Available For Download
19 Feb 2009
 
A-Team Insight Exchange

A-Team Insight Exchange is a new event series for 2010, which will combine A-Team’s expertise in financial markets IT with thought leadership from world-class technology innovators and practical experience from financial market practitioners.

Click here for more information

 
 

How important is measuring inter-party latency to your firm?

View Results

Loading ... Loading ...
 
Click here for A-Team's directory