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September 2, 2008 09:28 AM

LSE Launches Exchange Hosting and Cuts Millisecond Access To TradElect and Infolect

The London Stock Exchange (LSE) has launched Exchange Hosting, a service providing high frequency algorithmic trading firms with what it claims is the “fastest access” to TradElect and Infolect, the LSE’s trading and information systems. As a result, end-to-end roundtrip execution latency on TradElect will be cut in half to three milliseconds by October 2008.

August 28, 2008 01:45 PM

TSE Releases Plans for Co-location Service

Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) has released plans to introduce a co-location service at its data centre to provide low latency access to investors and trading participants. According to the exchange, it will also introduce two new trading systems to improve its IT systems and increase the speed of trading systems.

August 28, 2008 01:44 PM

StreamBase and Oracle Partner on Complex Event Processing (CEP) Standards Research

StreamBase Systems, provider of complex event processing technology, has teamed with researchers from enterprise software giant Oracle Corporation to research complex event processing (CEP) techniques and advance convergence on standard language implementation issues in an effort to continue to support the growth of CEP by applying standards that will allow enterprise developers to quickly understand, learn, and apply stream processing technologies.

August 28, 2008 01:40 PM

QuantHouse Rolls Out sub-Millisecond Access to Liffe

QuantHouse, a provider of end-to-end systematic trading solutions, has upgraded its exchange capacity to Liffe to the latest 100Mbps connectivity leveraging collocation within the exchange to capture data. This will further reduce the time it takes for data to be captured by QuantHouse infrastructure and systems.

August 19, 2008 08:00 AM

FIF Capacity Statistics for July: New Record Peaks for OPRA, CQS, CTS, NYSE ArcaBook, CME and CEF Classic

This month’s bulletin from the Financial Information Forum (FIF) finds that OPRA was 1% higher than its previous April 2008 one second peak with 517,764 messages per second (mps). The current OPRA ceiling is 1,387,000 mps which will increase to 1,540,000 mps on January 6, 2009.

August 19, 2008 07:55 AM

Coral8 Engine Release 5.4 Extends Continuous Computation Language and Developer Tools

CEP vendor Coral8 has announced the availability of Coral8 Engine Release 5.4. The new release extends Coral8’s Continuous Computation Language (CCL) and provides greater configuration flexibility. The Coral8 Portal was enhanced to add more visualisation options, including drill-down support.

August 11, 2008 04:47 PM

Fixnetix Launches Sub-Millisecond Datafeed Connectivity to Turquoise

Fixnetix has rolled out a sub-millisecond data feed connectivity to Turquoise, the multi-lateral trading facility established by nine leading European investment banks to deliver market data and trading connectivity.

August 11, 2008 04:44 PM

Marketcetera Brings Fully Integrated Real-Time Equity Data from Activ Financial to Open Source Trading Platform

Datafeed and feed handing vendor Activ Financial and Marketcetera, developer of open source platforms for automated trading systems, today announced the availability of Activ’s real-time equity data on the Marketcetera automated trading platform. Hedge funds and other buyside firms can now have direct access to Activ’s high-performance, ultra-low-latency data feeds - in addition to other features including event processing and trading strategy development tools - on an open source platform.

August 11, 2008 03:43 PM

GemStone-KPIT Cummins Alliance to Offer High Performance Cluster Management

Data Fabric provider GemStone Systems and KPIT Cummins Infosystems, an IT consulting firm with niche focus in Diversified Financial Services, have formed a strategic alliance to offer high performance computing (HPC) and cluster management solutions to global corporations across the US, India, Japan and Europe.

August 8, 2008 10:22 AM

Aleri/A-Team Paper Stresses Need for Speed in Today’s ‘Fast Markets’

Firms must embrace the shift toward increasingly electronic, ‘fast markets’ – making the requisite investment in technology infrastructure – if they are to benefit from the operational efficiencies and exploit early-mover advantage. That’s the finding of a new white paper from CEP platform provider Aleri – produced in conjunction with A-Team Group and available for free download at www.aleri.com/resource-library/whitepapers/index.php.