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Andrew’s Blog: Details, Details

Wednesday, May 9th, 2007

With most things in life, the devil is surely in the detail. Baby packed and ready to go, car loaded and full of gas, route planned and maps in the front seat: where are the car keys?

And when all the big hoo-ha’s at the Guardian, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times have mulled and remulled the logic of Thomson’s bid to acquire Reuters (although it’s looking more like a reverse from where we’re sitting – just back from France, of course, so completely off the map), it’s going to be the in the detail where things start to get scratchy. For our very very vertical world of low-latency market data delivery infrastructures, that means: what happens about Thomson’s recent deal with Wombat Financial?
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Andrew’s Blog: It’s The Network, Stupid

Thursday, April 26th, 2007

As prime suspects in the worldwide conspiracy that is low latency, you’d think we might be protagonists too. But while whatever low latency is helps those who’ve achieved it to beat the competition that haven’t (yet), I’m still sceptical that any advantage derived from ‘low latency’ will be short-lived. How can it not be? After all, as vendor after vendor and firm after firm heralds the arrival of yet faster access to electronic trading systems or delivery of real-time market data, at some point the “Scottie” factor surely will kick in.
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