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Q&A: RTI on The Value of a Millisecond, and How Jitter Fits In

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Real-Time Innovations (RTI) recently held a seminar 'Straight Talk About Low-Latency, The Value of a Millisecond' which highlighted the relationship between the technical minutiae of low latency systems and the business issues related to electronic trading. Low-Latency.com caught up with John Akbari, Director of Financial Market Business Development at RTI, to find out some more about what was discussed, and to shed more light on the technicalities.

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by Philipp Haberland (not verified) | May 14, 2008 - 6:46am
A poll of leading investment banks by COLT Telecom has revealed although the credit crunch is likely to impact front office spending this year, the majority of firms still expect to invest in reducing the latency of their trading systems. All of the Finance IT professionals who took part in the survey, conducted at a recent COLT customer event in London, rated latency as either ‘critical’ or ‘very important’ to successful electronic trading of securities. Ninety per cent said they expect to invest in reducing it in 2008.

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