Users Highlight Low Latency, Capacity

Meeting growing client demand for services without passing on cost increases is one of the main challenges currently facing user firms, according to a panel of banks and investment managers at last week’s Inside Market Data 2005 conference.

"The challenges continue to be lower latency, lower cost and robust platforms," says Ludwig D’Angelo, North America head of trading technology at JP Morgan.

Although program trading operations have been the main consumers of these feeds thus far, the demand