Although the credit crunch is likely to impact front office spending this year, the majority of firms still expect to invest in reducing the latency of their trading systems. So finds a poll of leading investment banks by COLT Telecom, providers of proximity hosting.

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The market for low latency messaging middleware is set to rise from $95 million in 2007 to $168 million in 2010, a three-year compound annual growth rate of 107 per cent, as investment banks ramp up spending on the technology to cope with rapidly increasing message volumes, according to forecasts from Tabb Group. The analyst estimates the overall spend on low latency infrastructures will reach $300 million in 2007. This includes message buses, feed handlers, ticker plants, complex event processors, physical transport and data storage and integration of internal and external applications.

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Total US capital market spending on advanced trading technology will total $860 million this year, and reach $1.3 billion by 2010. So suggests analyst TABB Group in its new research report Trading at Light Speed: Analyzing Low-Latency Infrastructure.
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