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Pete Harris

Stanley Young has left Bloomberg, where he was CEO of the company's Enterprise Products and Solutions division. He was with Bloomberg almost a year, having joined in June 2012.

Pete Harris

Just a quick post to point back to the recent outing of our Low-Latency Summits, held in New York City on May 1. And also a point forward to our next Summits in the Fall.

Toby Babb

Three very interesting features have emerged in fintech recruitment in the first trimester of 2013. The on off nature of FPGA development has led to cluster hiring in the space, big data has taken strides forward and there has been a noticeable improvement in diversity as companies take steps to add more women to their teams.

Pete Harris

Judging by the views of a number of wireless network equipment manufacturers and service providers participating in last week's Low-Latency Summit in New York City, demand from trading firms for low-latency wireless connectivity is strong despite the challenges of reliability, limited bandwidth and cost.

Latest Research

In its second year this comprehensive London salary survey covers 2,966 separate salary bands ranging from entry level to senior appointments in the financial services and commodities technology sector. The survey has been produced taking data from over 16,500 technology professionals and over 2,200 companies in the industry and gives a comprehensive benchmark of salaries in the following areas:

In the world of the financial markets, securing an edge over the competition can mean life or death for a trading firm. Whether it is acting on news alerts or price movements, determining the best trading opportunity, or delivering an order to the marketplace, microseconds mean the difference between winning or just playing.

Reducing those microseconds – referred to as latency – is a continuing focus of trading firms, and an increasing challenge as that latency is pushed down to double and single digit microseconds. The “race to zero” becomes increasingly difficult and expensive to engage in as it nears its conclusion.

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It's a bit of a paradox that Java is so widely used across all applications and industries, and yet is often cited as not suitable for the automated trading space. Low-Latency.com caught up with Gil Tene, CTO and Co-founder of Azul Systems, to find out more about Java performance, and how to improve it.

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October 8, 2013 (All day)

The Low-Latency Summit is evolving as the race to zero comes to a conclusion, focusing more on the value contained in vast and complex datasets and...

November 12, 2013 (All day)

The Low-Latency Summit is evolving as the race to zero comes to a conclusion, focusing more on the value contained in vast and complex datasets and...

Low Latency Poll

FPGA adoption for electronic trading/risk systems?
We are already using them
11%
We are planning to use them
26%
We need to know more about them
33%
We don't plan on using them
30%
Total votes: 27

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