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ONE NEW RECORD PEAK: BATS CHI-X Europe CXE PITCH

This month’s bulletin from the Financial Information Forum (FIF) finds that BATS CHI-X Europe CXE PITCH was up 50% to a record 99,042 mps over the 1 second interval

The headline states the basics that you need to know about - London on Tuesday, February 19. The Low-Latency Summit has been running in London (OK, under some aliases) since 2010, evolving along the way with a focus this spring on 'convergence' - which means how low-latency, cloud and big data technologies are combining to underping automated trading. Here's some more about what you can learn about by attending ...

There are some great certainties in life, such as taxes, death and so on. But death rates and taxes can go up and down. Not so with market data. There is no argument. Data rates always go up.

More than 300 last week packed out the Low-Latency Summit in New York City, despite transit and workload challenges presented by the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. For those that attended, and the many others that wanted to, here are audio recordings (with slides where appropriate) of the keynotes, panels and workshops to enjoy over the long Thanksgiving weekend.

McObject announced today that a new report from the Securities Technology Analysis Center (STAC) documents that the company’s eXtremeDB Financial Edition database system achieved the lowest mean response times ever reported for 15 of 17 STAC-M3 benchmarks. The fully audited benchmark tests evaluated time-series data management (tick database) solutions involving complex queries that were designed by trading firms on the STAC Benchmark Council to reflect real-world capital markets computing demands.

FOUR NEW RECORD PEAKS: NASDAQ UQDF, BATS Options MCASTPITCH AGG, NYSE ArcaBook Options and Direct Edge EDGX

FOUR NEW RECORD PEAKS: BATS CHI-X Europe CXE PITCH, Direct Edge EDGX, NYSE AMEX Options and Deutsche Börse CEF Core Eurex

FOUR NEW RECORD PEAKS: Deutsche Böerse CEF Core Eurex, NASDAQ TotalView – ITCH, BATS Options MCASTPITCH AGG and Deutsche Böerse CEF Core Total

FIVE NEW RECORD PEAKS: NASDAQ NLS, NYSE AMEX Options, BATS Options MCASTPITCH AGG, Deutsche Börse CEF Core Eurex and NYSE ArcaBook Options

This month’s bulletin from the Financial Information Forum (FIF) finds that BATS BZX PITCH, BATS Options MCASTPITCH AGG, NASDAQ TotalView - ITCH and NYSE ARCABOOK OPTIONS were up a record 232% to 837,359 mps, 66% to 1,004,241 mps, 2% to 643,443 mps, 2% to 1,505,385 mps respectively over the 1 second interval.

Exegy, the market data appliance company, MarketPrizm, a leading provider of ultra low latency market data and trading infrastructure services, and the Financial Information Forum have announced today the launch of the first European website to track real-time market data rates every second of every trading day.

This month’s bulletin from the Financial Information Forum (FIF) finds that SIAC OPRA and DEUTSCHE BOERSE CEF CORE EUREX were up a record 49% to 4,557,156 mps and 22% to 64,882 mps respectively over the 1 second interval.