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Everyone is keen to climb on the low latency bandwagon. This is due to several factors, not least the exponential growth in market and trade data volumes that exchanges and financial institutions are having to process. Others include the growth in derivatives and algorithmic trading, the scores of new assets and asset classes being traded, and the increase in the number of players in the financial markets, particularly in emerging economies.

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Issue 2 of A-Team Group’s contributed thought leadership quarterly Low Latency - Are You Performing? is now available for download. Read contributions from Fidessa and Interactive Data. Click on the cover image below to download the PDF.

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Issue 1 of A-Team Group’s contributed thought leadership quarterly Low Latency - Are You Performing? is now available for download. Read contributions from Aleri, Interactive Data and Endace. Click on the cover image below to download the PDF.

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By Don DeLoach, President and CEO, Aleri

Part 4 of 4

[Don concludes this series by looking at CEP applications beyond the financial markets]
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By Don DeLoach, President and CEO, Aleri

Part 3 of 4

[Don continues by outlining further capital markets applications for CEP]
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By Don DeLoach, President and CEO, Aleri

Part 2 of 4

[Continuing on from Don’s introduction to this subject, he begins to drill down on applications that can leverage CEP]

Not unlike any emerging modality in computing, market acceptance tends to determine the “must have” capabilities for the market participants. This was true with relational databases regarding stored procedures and triggers and row level locking; it is true of televisions supporting HDTV, and it is true for digital audio support of MP3 formats. Notwithstanding the bluster of any particular vendor with larger than reality self perception, it is the market, and only the market, that determines standards and direction.
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In our second podcast, Pete Harris, President - Americas for A-Team Group, talks about benchmarking the performance of low latency architectures. Pete answers the questions: How useful are benchmarks? Are the benchmarks that currently exist reliable enough for users when purchasing systems? Is there a way to make benchmarks more useful and reliable for user firms? Angela Wilbraham, CEO of A-Team Group, moderates.

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By Don DeLoach, President and CEO, Aleri

Part 1 of 4

Complex Event Processing is, always has been, and will continue to emerge as much more than just a platform for algorithmic trading. Yet, “Algo Trading” is hot and CEP is definitely a new technology that can be leveraged for strategic advantage in support of algo trading. While you may need a PhD in Mathematics to develop the hot new strategy, it certainly doesn’t take one to see the synergies between algo trading and CEP. Increasingly pronounced is the uptick in buzz around the Complex Event Processing market and its ability to service the emerging algo trading demands.

While a lot of the buzz may be around algo trading, people are quickly realizing the power of applying CEP technology across a wide range of problems – anywhere there is a need to analyze fast moving data in real-time, with minimal latency. At Aleri, we’re certainly seeing the interest in CEP for algo, but that only represents a distinct minority among the places this technology is being applied.
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By Tony McManus, Wombat Financial Software and John Morrell, Coral8

The recent increases in global execution volumes are driving a common need among all market participants for high-speed business logic deployed in ever shrinking timescales. Because of this, real-time analytical event processing is now a cornerstone of trading technology in the multi-asset capital markets sector. In order to create and maintain a competitive advantage, these increasingly sophisticated trading institutions insist that their systems utilize a high-performance, low latency processing platform that is easy to develop, deploy, extend and integrate.
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In our debut podcast, Andrew Delaney, Editor-in-Chief of A-Team Group, examines the proposed takeover of Reuters by Thomson, and the impact it might have on those using or looking for low latency datafeeds. Peter Harris, President - Americas for A-Team Group, moderates.

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For A-Team’s analysis of the proposed deal, click here:
MDI May 2007 - Thomson/Reuters Deal (PDF File, 56 KB)

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