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Low-latency specialist Quant House has acquired SmartQuant, and has rebranded its offerings as QuantFACTORY. SmartQuant’s trading strategies development tools enable users to develop, back test, simulate and execute powerful program trading strategies.
From A-Team Group’s Transaction Networks & Technologies, February 2007: HypoVereinsbank (HVB), part of the Unicredit Group, has gone into production with a cross-asset database system built using technology from Kx Systems to support its proprietary trading desks in Munich and London. The custom solution, running on 64-bit hardware, is being used to capture and analyze millions of streaming market ticks for immediate real-time analysis and to perform complex analytics on historical data.
From A-Team Group’s Transaction Networks & Technologies, February 2007: The roundtrip latency of pan-European equity ATS Instinet Chi-X has been measured at 10 milliseconds in a series of tests performed by TransactTools, the provider of messaging technology recently acquired by NYSE Group.
From A-Team Group’s Market Data Insight, January 2007: FIX Protocol Ltd (FPL) has released version 1.1 of its FIX Adapted for Streaming (Fast) Protocol data compaction methodology.
From A-Team Group’s Market Data Insight, January 2007: London-based Fixnetix Ltd. last month quietly unveiled its iX-Direct so-called ultra low-latency data service. The new hosted service uses Level 2 non-routed fibre network to connect institutions’ trading operations directly with European exchanges, for direct access to high-speed market data services.
From A-Team Group’s Transaction Networks & Technologies, January 2007: Nyfix Inc has implemented Skyler Technology’s C3 Database for its new order book server to handle what it terms “drastically increasing quote and order book data volumes”. The deal marks Skyler’s first major contract since it entered the high-performance financial data handling space last summer.
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