Regulatory change is pushing the industry towards a central utility model for market and real-time data, according to Alan Dean, global head of cross asset FIX connectivity at HSBC Global Banking and Markets. Speaking at A-Team Group’s Business & Technology of Low-Latency Trading (BTLLT) event in London this week, Dean indicated that the onslaught of regulation is squeezing firms’ budgets and the logical extension of a cost saving approach would be to opt for a utility infrastructure via a consolidated European data centre.
QuantHouse is finalising access to Russia’s Micex and RTS exchanges for its high frequency trading clients in the wake of a partnership forged with Russian financial giant Otkritie. In turn, Otkritie will use a QuantHouse market data feed and the company’s QuantFactory automated trading platform to support its own clients trading on the Russian exchanges.
In a move that could establish an enabling technology for those interested in latency arbitrage, ITRS Group has released Feed Latency Monitor (FLM), a plug-in to its Geneos platform that lets users analyse relative latencies of real-time data feeds in real time.
A-Team Insight Events combine A-Team's expertise in financial markets IT with thought leadership from world-class technology innovators and practical experience from financial market practitioners. In 2011, a quality constituency will once again gather for these focused events in London and New York City.
Anyone who is familiar with the OPRA option data feed and associated message rates understands the challenges of dealing with options market data. NYSE Technologies has just introduced its Filtered Options Feed, designed to address some of those challenges. Low-Latency.com talked to Todd Watkins, product manager at the data and trading technology vendor, to find out more about what it offers.
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