April 30, 2012 09:36 AM
BT have announced a new addition to its BT Radianz Cloud portfolio and enhancements to its BT Radianz Proximity services that will extend the footprint of its hosting capabilities at non-BT datacentres ten-fold and provide lowest optimal latency between trading venues.
April 27, 2012 12:01 PM
Networking specialist’s GS series switch is selected as a finalist in the networking category at Best of Interop 2012 awards.
April 25, 2012 10:08 AM
FSMLabs® today announced that TimeKeeper™, its groundbreaking time management software for high-speed trading and extreme time-critical applications, now runs on the Arista 7124sx and other Arista Networks switches.
April 24, 2012 10:22 AM
Thomson Reuters, the world’s leading supplier of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, today announced the launch of Elektron hosting and managed services in Brazil. The new service, situated in close proximity to the BM&F BOVESPA exchange, will provide trading firms with cost effective, low latency access to the real-time data required to fuel algorithmic and high-frequency trading strategies in Brazil.
April 23, 2012 04:31 PM
According to new research from TABB Group, a battle is brewing within today’s institutional investment market data marketplace. The “need for speed” is in direct conflict with the “need to save” as cost versus performance becomes an issue for many of today’s largest market data users.
April 23, 2012 11:40 AM
Offering round-trip speeds as low as 14.5 milliseconds between the two trading centres, Verizon’s new network uses the 6500 Packet-Optical Platform, the latest optical technology from network specialist Ciena.
April 5, 2012 11:14 AM
California-based Intilop has unveiled its 3rd generation ultra-low latency, high performance Ethernet Media Access Controller IP cores.
April 4, 2012 11:32 AM
S&P Capital IQ has announced the purchase of low-latency trading specialist QuantHouse. S&P Capital IQ, a McGraw Hill company, provides a range of multi-asset class data solutions, portfolio risk analytics and market research to global investors.
March 27, 2012 04:07 PM
TABB Group announced today that the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission selected Larry Tabb, founder and CEO, to assist their CFTC Technical Advisory Committee as a member of its Subcommittee of Automated and High Frequency Trading (HFT) to create a definition for high frequency trading within the context of automating trading systems.
March 20, 2012 01:07 PM
Seth Merrin, founder and CEO of Liquidnet, the global institutional trading network, advised exchange leaders to look for new alternatives over exchange consolidation to compete in today’s global market as part of his opening keynote address at the World Exchange Congress in Istanbul.
March 14, 2012 11:12 AM
Aritas today announced its European volume figures for 2011, demonstrating significant growth in its algorithmic trading business.
March 12, 2012 10:59 AM
Redline Trading Solutions, a leading provider of ultra-low latency trading solutions, announced today at TradeTech 2012 a major move into Foreign Exchange (FX) markets with the integration of 20 new FX venues into its market-leading InRush Accelerated Ticker Plant and Execution Gateway.
March 6, 2012 05:06 PM
US buy-side firms are increasing their use of electronic trading tools for futures trading as their volumes continue to grow and they look for more efficient execution processes.
March 1, 2012 11:04 AM
The move comes in response to the growing number of high frequency traders on the exchange that use algorithms as part of their trading strategy. There are concerns that the large amount of orders which are cancelled or altered are having a negative impact on the exchange’s network, slowing down trading speeds for other users.
February 28, 2012 10:17 AM
Redline Trading Solutions, Inc., a leading provider of ultra-low latency trading solutions, introduced the Redline Pre-Trade Risk Solution, which performs in less than one microsecond a comprehensive series of risk checks, verifications, and control actions in accordance with the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Market Access Rule 15c3-5.
February 23, 2012 10:52 AM
The new FIX standards will replace those currently in use and provide the first like-for-like latency comparisons across the HFT space.
February 20, 2012 03:50 PM
The federal appeals court has overturned former Goldman Sachs programmer Sergey Aleynikov’s conviction for stealing proprietary high frequency trading code.
February 16, 2012 10:27 AM
Progress Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS), a leading software provider that enables enterprises to be operationally responsive, today announced that FFastFill, the leading provider of application services for the electronic trading andrisk management community, has extended its existing partnership agreement with Progress Software to deliver the award-winningProgress® Apama® FX Aggregation Solution Accelerator product to the capital markets industry as a fully-managed, cloud-based service.
February 14, 2012 12:22 PM
The International Securities Exchange (ISE) is now offering a Premium Access connection in its primary data center. The introduction of the Juniper switches along with new network cards and a custom load balancing scheme will enable member firms with a direct connection to ISE to reduce their roundtrip network latency by up to 150 microseconds, or approximately 90 percent.
February 10, 2012 01:13 PM
The financial commodities broker believes high frequency trading in metals could account for 20 percent of volume on the London Metal Exchange in just a few years, according to Bloomberg.
February 2, 2012 07:02 PM
Solarflare, a leader in application-intelligent 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) networking software and hardware, today announced a new SPECvirt virtualization benchmark record with its 10GbE server adapter.
February 1, 2012 11:18 AM
In a speech at the New York Law School on 31 January, Republican CFTC commissioner Scott O’Malia proposed the formation of a subcommittee specifically charged with identifying and defining high frequency trading in futures, swaps and options.
January 31, 2012 11:43 AM
FlexTrade will offer a variety of derivatives trading solutions to members of the Dubai exchange. One of these is FlexOPT, a trading system aimed at buy and sell-side organisations working in facilitation and proprietary trading. According to the company, the solution provides direct access to all options exchanges, leading broker algorithms and a range of options strategies, including dispersion trading, volatility trading and cross asset trading for quantitative trades, order management and execution management.
January 26, 2012 02:26 PM
GuavaTech specializes in managed IT services for a range of financial clients, including hedge funds, brokers and proprietary trading firms. According to the company, it offers low latency connectivity to more than 75, ECNs, banks, liquidity pools and international exchanges.
January 24, 2012 02:18 PM
Partnership provides a range of options for firms accessing interest rate swap futures on leading exchange for interest rate risk management.
