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Kx Systems Taps Devnet for Euro Sales

German risk management and trading systems consultancy Devnet will market tick database provider Kx Systems’ kdb+ database and Q programming language...

Inside Market Data | News | alliances, mergers & acquisitions | 19 Sep 2011

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The Dying Lifecycle of an Algorithm

A while back I wrote a cover story for Waters on Lincoln Capital's Stephen Temes and he told me about how he felt there were firms out there that intentionally tried to figure out his algorithms and execute against them-or, game them. "You have to really...

Buy-Side Technology | News | Trading Technologies and Strategies | 17 Jun 2011

ANZ Bows First Derivatives for FX Data

ANZ Bank has rolled out Northern Ireland-based data technology vendor First Derivatives’ Delta Stream market data capture and analytics tool to support its electronic foreign exchange trading business in Melbourne and Sydney. The system, which is...

Inside Market Data | News | Data Consumers | 02 May 2011

Panopticon, Kx Team on Analysis

Swedish data visualization software vendor Panopticon has partnered with tick database vendor Kx Systems to enable mutual clients to use Panopticon’s graphical displays to represent large quantities of real-time data from Kx’s kdb+ database, using...

Inside Market Data | News | Data Display & Analytics | 18 Apr 2011

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Opening Cross: Asia Shows More Eastern Promise for 2011

It looks like the Inside Market Data and Inside Reference Data teams are going to be seeing more of Asia than ever before this year. In the Chinese zodiac, 2011 is the year of the rabbit, and our events in the region seem to have been breeding like bunnies....

Inside Market Data | Opinion | Organization & Management | 17 Jan 2011

Kx Plans More STAC Benchmarks

Database technology vendor Kx Systems is to benchmark the performance of its software on different hardware configurations using standardized testing methodologies from the Securities Technology Analysis Center (STAC), to help clients make more informed...

Inside Market Data | News | Hardware & Grid | 01 Oct 2010

Kx Gives kdb+ a Boost

Database technology vendor Kx Systems has released Version 2.7 of its kdb+ database technology, which boosts the speed at which the software operates by up to 20 percent relative to previous releases by using intelligent file compression, improved memory...

Inside Market Data | News | Data Management | 03 Sep 2010

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The Spread of CEP

The initial adoption of complex event processing (CEP) for developing alpha-signal generation and improving algorithm performance has given way to a number of new use cases outside the front office. “It has been pretty clear for over a year now that...

Waters | Feature | Trading Technologies and Strategies | 14 Jun 2010

Opportunities and efficiencies

This month's analyst research focuses on three diverse subjects - centralised clearing of OTC instruments; the rise in popularity of commission-sharing agreements; and the development and implementation of high-performance database systems. All three...

Buy-Side Technology | Research | Clearing & Settlement | 01 Mar 2010

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