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Getting a Grip on Benchmark Contributions
A discussion of the issues surrounding bank-contributed market information for benchmarks and indexes. Recent scandals involving bank-contributed financial information – most notably 2010’s discovery of fraudulent contributions to the widely used the London Inter-Bank Offered Rate (LIBOR) benchmark – have underscored the lack of transparency and lack of control of the rates and prices financial…
OptionsCity Details the Potential of Freeway Analytics
OptionsCity Software is offering multi-asset derivatives traders a consolidated solution for algorithmic strategy building, testing and execution through the integration of its recently released Freeway Analytics with its existing Freeway automated trading technology. The analytics solution initially uses historical futures market data from Vertex Analytics and allows traders to focus on developing trading strategies rather…
Caplin Launches Caplin Direct SDP-as-a-Service
Caplin Systems’ launch today of Caplin Direct, a hosted, managed single-dealer platform for banks in the FX market, aims to make state-of-the-art SDP capabilities to financial institutions that may not have the budget or technical resources to implement a deployed solution. According to CEO Paul Caplin, the initiative represents the third generation of SDP development,…
Vulpes Investment Management Revamps IT for Systematic Trading
Vulpes Investment Management is revamping its technology infrastructure as it moves out of volatility trading and into systematic trading. The revamp includes implementation of OneMarketData’s OneTick stream processing and tick data management solution for quantitative research, modelling and strategy development, as well as a Tora electronic trading platform and portfolio management system, Redis in-memory database…
Leveraging In-Memory for Real-Time MapReduce Analytics
See the video below on how in-memory technology from ScaleOut Software can boost MapReduce 40x for financial applications, such as real-time risk analytics.
Infront Targets Thomson Reuters 3000 Xtra Customers with Free Trial Offer for Infront Market Data and Trading Service
Infront, the leading provider of real-time market data, news and analytics, is offering a free trial of its latest Infront market data and trading platform to current clients of Thomson Reuters’ 3000 Xtra premium desktop service, which is being withdrawn from the market on December 31, 2013. The Infront platform caters to those users who…
Onix Solutions and VDIware Plan to Extend Nanotick Historical Market Data Service to Venues beyond the CME
The Nanotick high-precision historical market data service developed by Onix Solutions (OnixS) and VDIware is to be extended beyond its initial scope as a service for the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) with coverage of additional venues across Europe and North and South America due to come on stream next year. The joint initiative was set…
SAS Teams With SAP for Real-Time Analytics
Analytics specialist SAS is working with SAP and its in-memory HANA technology in order to offer real-time applications, including potentially for financial markets trading and risk use cases. Early offerings are due in the first half of 2014. Ken Tsai, head of SAP HANA product marketing and vice president of technology innovation platforms at SAP,…
Q&A: Skyler’s Mike Vieyra on Market Data Management and LIBOR
Skyler Technology is a company that has re-invented itself since its early days as a complex event processing company from the San Francisco Bay Area, to focus on market data management – with some relevant technology for compliance in markets such as LIBOR – from a UK base. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com spoke to CEO Mike Vieyra to…
Change is Happening at Low-Latency.com …
In the financial markets, the only constant is change … and over the past couple of years, the world of low latency has changed. At one time, reducing latency was an arms race, with zero as the finish line. Now, with the race close to a conclusion, the focus is shifting to the high performance…