Low-Latency, High-Performance Optical Networking Solutions: Helping Financial Services Gain Competitive Edge
[ Source: Ciena ]
October 2009-
Financial services firms specializing in high frequency trading are looking to reduce network latency anywhere within the algorithm-based trading workflow. In the past, efforts to reduce latency have been implemented with super-fast computers, faster software, and faster storage connections. Today, saving fractions of seconds by reducing data transport latency in network systems and fiber-based transport networks is receiving more attention. In addition, since low-latency market data is uncompressed and trading volumes are increasing so rapidly, ....
Global Equity Assets Report
[ Source: Ipreo ]
October 2009-
Following a tumultuous six months that culminated with markets across the globe hitting their lows in March 2009, equities rebounded forcefully in the second quarter of 2009. The rebound in the second quarter brought everyone along for the ride, as every major market around the world set a 52-week high and all sectors participated in the upswing. This document represents Ipreo’s Global Equity Assets Report (GEAR) for the second quarter of 2009. The report provides ....
Nationwide Rollout and Global Technology Deployment Internal Resources Requirements
[ Source: Concert Technologies ]
April 2009-
Nationwide rollouts and global technology deployments are complex projects that require expert management of people and technology. A project�s success is as dependent on the internal resources that deploy it as the technology installed. An inexperienced Project Facilitator or overburdened Project Manager can easily become overwhelmed -- which can cause massive repercussions that inevitably translate to increased costs or delayed implementation for your project. As the third in our series, this paper ....
Enabling Market Data Distribution in Hardware
[ Source: Solace Systems ]
August 2008-
With the rising volume of market data, it is becoming more critical for financial service firms to maintain low-latency. Today's software-based solutions support only limited traffic, which means that firms are continuously deploying new servers that come with large costs including: capital outlay and software licensing and deployment, maintenance and datacenter resources. Financial services firms that take this approach discover that there are many challenges when deploying multiple servers as there is an inherent unpredictability ....
Sinan Baskan, Director of Business Development at Sybase, on Information Delivery
[ Source: Sybase ]
July 2008-
Managing and sustaining a continuous flow of data in a low latency environment is critical to organizations in the capital markets industry. Learn about successful strategies for delivering information to the point of use, across multiple groups, so that actual portfolio and trading decisions can be made in real time.
Hedge Fund Improves Risk Management and Returns with Grid Processing
[ Source: Microsoft ]
June 2008-
When III Offshore Advisors began looking for better ways to measure the risk in their credit derivatives portfolio, they looked at everything on the market. “As a hedge fund, we had a pretty sizable budget for investing in this,” said Paul Algreen, CIO at the $4 billion fixed income firm based in Boca Raton, FL. The firm looked at high end SMP servers, Data Synapse, open-source Alchemi and other options before concluding ....
Skyler C3 Liquidity Discovery Solution
[ Source: Skyler Technology ]
January 2008-
Skyler offers an off-the-shelf Skyler C3 Liquidity Discovery Solution that allows you to rapidly gain insights into, analyze, and act upon the available and changing liquidity in the different markets. The Skyler C3 Liquidity Discovery Solution allows you to: * Maintain the full depth of all order books in real time * Aggregate across multiple venues * Provide multiple aggregation views on a per user basis including market by order, market ....
Skyler C3 Tick Analytics Solution
[ Source: Skyler Technology ]
September 2007-
The Skyler C3 Tick Analytics Solution allows you to: * Capture real-time intra-day trade data * Run per-venue and cross-venue trade data analytics on real-time and time series data * Subscribe to aggregations by volume and price*volume * Conduct subscription and request-response queries * Conduct “window” based subscriptions * Configure window length at run time * Automatically reorder trade data according to exchange timestamp * Automatically manage ....
High Performance Excel-Based Applications in Financial Services
[ Source: GigaSpaces Technologies ]
August 2007-
This paper describes a comprehensive solution based on Microsoft and GigaSpaces
technologies that addresses scalability and performance challenges with Excel-based applications in
securities and capital markets industry. The solution combines the latest Microsoft technologies,
including Office Excel, Excel Services in Office SharePoint Server 2007, User Defined Functions, and
Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 with GigaSpaces eXtreme Application Platform to deliver
unparalleled usability, performance, and scalability.
Building Distributed Applications Integrating the Trading Value Chain via .NET Framework
[ Source: Microsoft ]
June 2007-
Many customers in the Securities and Capital Markets industry rely on products from Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) to obtain solutions for their business needs. These products usually come from different ISVs and they are based on different technologies. Very often, customers are confronted with significant post-purchase deployment and integration costs if they need various ISV products to communicate and exchange data with each other. This paper describes how Microsoft partners 4th Story, Digipede ....