Latency

BT's Fragmentation Fighters

As regulatory initiatives such as the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive and market forces prompt new trading venues and data sources, the European financial markets can expect to see a fragmented trading landscape in 2008. With network providers…

Asia-Pacific in Hot Pursuit of West

ASIA-Three of the key trends of the US market last year-latency, regulation and data volumes-will emerge as key drivers of market development in the Asia-Pacific region this year, experts say, signaling that the Asian markets are fast catching up with…

Thanksgiving and Turkeys

Thanksgiving, the quintessential American holiday, stems from the first harvest gathered by British pilgrim settlers after being taught how to hunt and grow native crops in the New World by Native Americans. As the story goes, having survived their first…

Panel: Time is Money

One of the biggest obstacles to the development of low-latency data services in Asia is an inability to fully measure latency, because not all exchanges provide timestamps on data messages, according to participants on one panel last week.

Panel: Fragmented Europe Drives Latency Focus

Growing data volumes arising from the emergence of new markets in Europe will increase the use of technology to automate parts of the trading process and prompt a greater focus on latency in the region, according to an industry panel hosted by Colt…

Lack of Expertise Hampers FPGA Use

Hardware-accelerated solutions provide the best hope of dealing with high volumes of market data at low latencies, but may suffer because of the industry's current lack of experience and expertise with the new technologies, according to a conference…

The Hard Way

Accelerating data volume growth coupled with a relentless drive for lower latency is outstripping performance increases in the software infrastructures that financial firms rely on to handle market data. As a result, infrastructure architects are turning…

You couldn't make this up

Heard the one about the hedge fund doing its Monte Carlo simulations on 300 PlayStation 2s bolted together? No? That's not surprising – they closed their doors for business last week and handed back whatever was left of their investors' capital. Actually…

Gaining the Edge

Technologists are all too familiar with the mantras of the trading desk heads: "I want it faster" and "I want it better."

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