Financial markets firms can no longer spend what it takes to compete in the “low latency arms race.” The new reality demands high performance to be competitive with peers, but with an emphasis on upfront deployment and ongoing operational costs.
High performance is measured not simply in trading execution speed and round-trip latency figures. Those metrics remain a factor, but in a world where performance is measured not in absolute terms but against trading peers, the ability to enter new markets cost effectively and react to business changes – agility and flexibility – are just as important.
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we also see financial markets caring less about latency and more about cost -including fx and equities - we hear common themes of, "good enough technology is good enough for us, we dont need to be the fastest"
great article by the way
regards
carl
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