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Flush with financial engineering knowledge as never before, firms are deploying quants to tackle new challenges. Tim Bourgaize Murray reports on a fresh...
Waters | Feature | Risk Management | 22 Feb 2013
FIX costs have long been a thorn in the side of more than a few brokers. While many still insist on managing their FIX connectivity internally, others have chosen to outsource this service to third-party providers. The question remains: Is the benefit...
Waters | Feature | Connectivity & Networks | 31 Jan 2013
Open-outcry exchanges are now largely extinct, with most trading executed through global computer networks. The rate of these transactions is limited only by technology and, increasingly, the speed of light. But as latency reaches the point of diminishing...
American literary icon Mark Twain supposedly said that history doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme. The financial services industry is experiencing the latest rhyme, as cloud computing returns to the industry at a level of managed services not...
Waters | Feature | Hosting & Co-location | 06 Jul 2011
Just as on-demand computing is gaining traction on Wall Street, driving cloud adoption, the financial markets are also identifying opportunities to utilize on-demand market data for non-trading applications. Inside Market Data talks to Stephane Dubois,...
Inside Market Data | Feature | Organization & Management | 09 May 2011
About a year ago, investment banking firm Greenhill & Co. found that “port blocking” firewalls on its system and the hypertext transfer protocol secure (https) standard were no longer sufficient for protecting its trading communications. Applications...
Waters | Feature | Connectivity & Networks | 02 May 2011
No longer the preserve of the specialist funds, fund managers in the broad fixed-income space have moved swiftly up the derivatives curve in the past five years. They are using interest-rate swaps, futures, credit default swaps (CDSs) and inflation swaps...
Waters | Feature | Data Display & Analytics | 10 Jan 2011
Canada saw an explosion of connectivity and datacenter activity in 2010 as new alternative trading systems drove increased fragmentation and need for connectivity between domestic and international trading venues to make it easier for firms to trade and...
Inside Market Data | Feature | Connectivity & Networks | 20 Dec 2010
Whereas traders used to make do with a real-time market data display, a couple of interactive charts and a brokerage report, sophisticated analytics—encompassing terminal displays, embedded analytics in trading systems or websites, and as standalone...
Inside Market Data | Feature | Data Display & Analytics | 20 Dec 2010
Market data message rates continued to soar in 2010, creating data peaks that challenged even the largest servers, driven by low-latency trading. St. Louis, Mo.-based hardware ticker plant vendor Exegy’s MarketDataPeaks portal recorded 3.25 million...
Inside Market Data | Feature | Latency | 20 Dec 2010
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