Natural affinity

The development of complex event processing (CEP) has given traditional asset managers and hedge funds the opportunity to incorporate a variety of front-, middle- and back-office operations into these platforms. Some have found such environments particularly well suited to the exceptionally fast, data-intensive rigours of high-frequency trading (HFT) strategies. Although CEP is not necessarily appropriate for all managers engaged in HFT, those
firms that have implemented it for these trading act