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.
The industry has until January 25 to offer the European Commission feedback on Thomson Reuters’ proposal to allow clients to license its Reuters Instrument Codes (RICs) in order to access third-party and internal market data. Thomson Reuters made the proposal as part of its attempt to settle an EC investigation launched in 2009 into whether its licensing policy for RICs stifled competition and breached EU antitrust rules (read more here).


















San Francisco hedge fund start-up Galiam Capital has turned to OneMarketData for a tick data management solution that will be used for quantitative research and to run the firm’s trading model analytics.
MDX Technology, a provider of real-time market data connectivity, celebrated its first birthday this summer with the announcement of client wins in New York, London and Singapore, growing interest from hedge funds and tier one banks in its flagship product MDXT Connect, and plans to further develop the solution.
Marfin Laiki Bank, a member of the Marfin Popular Bank group in Cyprus, has implemented trading floor desktop technology from Mighter, with a view to reducing costs, increasing desk space, easing maintenance and giving traders a better environment to work in. The bank was using a mix of old Reuters and Wey Technology desktop equipment when it decided last year to reconsider how it accessed trading information and how it could lower costs.
NovaSparks’ second generation field programmable gate array (FPGA) technology adds hosting support for algos and promises level one market data processing at sub-microsecond speeds and level two processing at no more than 1.5 microseconds, knocking over 100 microseconds off market data processing handled by typical software solutions.

