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Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) - providing hardware-based acceleration for processing typically performed in software - are being increasingly adopted for financial markets applications, with signs that their use is moving beyond boosting market data delivery, to address transactional performance as well. Fixnetix and Wall Street FPGA are providing two such examples, as hardware acceleration veterans like Activ Financial Systems roll out the latest versions of its ticker plant, doubling performance.


















The Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) has warned the European Commission (EC) and Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR) against further legislation to achieve the objectives of MiFID, suggesting instead a targeted approach to address specific issues and the use of available policy tools to resolve them.

