About Us

Low-latency.com is the premier online community for financial markets technologists who operate at the cutting edge.

Low-Latency.com is the community portal offering vital intelligence, expert analysis, in-depth research and thought leadership focused on the role played by low-latency and related technologies in today’s high performance electronic trading markets.

In particular, we see convergence of low latency, cloud and big data technologies - each bringing real benefits to the automated trading markets of tomorrow, as participants increasingly understand that low latency alone is not a strategy. Instead, technology convergence - enabling Intelligent Trading - is a key focus for Low-Latency.com and the community that engages with it.

Low-Latency.com supports community engagement and networking facilities, allowing discussion and debate of relevant technologies, issues and initiatives. Stay tuned for further announcements.

Membership of the community is FREE.  Signup is immediate and open to all.  See the Member Login or Join the Community link on the top right of the page.

Content on Low-Latency.com is categorised for ready access and analysis.  The following categories currently exist:

Algo, HFT and Execution - Algorithmic and HF trading, order and execution management and routing applications.
Benchmarks and Performance - Hard facts on latency, througput, jitter, etc.
Connectivity, Co-Lo and Proximity - Wide area networks, co-location and proximity offerings.
Datafeeds and Handlers - Data services, their content and the software the processes them.
Execution Venues - Facilities where orders are executed, across all asset classes.
FPGAs and Hardware Acceleration - Field Programmable Gate Array, and related, technologies, and applications.
Just For The Record - Company news, general commentary.
Latency Management - Technology to monitor, measure and manage the latency of systems.
Messaging, Data Fabrics and Local Networking - Middleware to transport data between applications, and underlying local area network technologies.
People Moves - Human interest, hires, fires.
Servers, Storage, Systems Software and Cloud - The technology stack that underpins specialist middleware and applications.
Stream Processing, Tick Database and Big Data/Analytics - Complex Event Processing, storage of tick data, and analytics (including Big Data approaches).

Low-Latency.com is a service of A-Team Group, a global news, research and events company focused on the deployment of IT in the financial markets.

For content, contact Pete Harris - pete@low-latency.com.  All press releases should be sent to pr@a-teamgroup.com.

For sponsorship and other commercial matters, contact Martyn Hodges - martyn@low-latency.com.

For community questions, contact George Bailey-Kirby - george@low-latency.com.

For issues logging in, contact Ron Wilbraham - ron@a-teamgroup.com.

To report an issue with the website, contact Sharon Wilbraham - sharon@a-teamgroup.com.