BST Awards 2024: Best buy-side newcomer (vendor or product)—Exegy
Product: nxFramework
Overview
Exegy’s nxFramework is a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) development framework designed to accelerate time to market for ultra low-latency financial applications by providing production-proven reference designs. This standardized, off-the-shelf offering reduces both time to production and FPGA development costs. Utilizing AMD’s motherboards, Exegy achieved a 13.9 nanosecond trade execution latency, delivering the lowest tick-to-trade latency in any published STAC-T0 benchmark.
This recognition highlights Exegy’s commitment to overcoming the traditional challenges of FPGA development―high costs, integration issues and the need for specialized skills―by providing a scalable and flexible solution that does not compromise on speed or performance. Exegy empowers clients to achieve record-breaking performance in ultra low-latency trading, allowing them to optimize their strategies and gain a competitive edge in the market
Olivier Cousin, director of FPGA solutions, Exegy
The solution
The results of the STAC-T0 test—a test that measures the tick-to-trade network-I/O latency of a trading platform regardless of the hardware and software making up the stack under test—showcased how Exegy’s nxFramework, in collaboration with AMD, pushed the limits of the technology needed for ultra low-latency trading across the capital markets. This innovation combines hardware acceleration, FPGA flexibility, and low-latency networking to ensure precise and repeatable performance, allowing clients to achieve the fastest trade execution speeds possible using industry-standard hardware and a standardized FPGA framework.
Secret sauce
This framework is unique in offering off-the-shelf capabilities for FPGA development like reference designs and IP configuration. It represents previously unavailable standardization in FPGA and hardware development, providing firms with a blueprint for creating and replicating the technology, while maintaining speed. Exegy’s nxFramework provides clients with scalability and flexibility, without compromising agility or performance.
Recent milestones
- Conducted a latency test using AMD hardware for the STAC-T0 benchmark, resulting in record-breaking latency
- Developed a standardized and repeatable reference design of how to achieve 13.9 nanosecond latency with AMD/nxFramework
- Introduced intraday signals to Exegy’s iceberg order detection offering, Liquidity Lamp. Quantitative traders can now see the volume of iceberg (reserve) orders throughout the day using summary files delivered every ten minutes
Future objectives
Roll out nxFramework as a product available for existing and new Exegy clients.
Why they won
St. Louis, Missouri-based Exegy, a provider of market data solutions, trading platforms, and predictive signals for the financial services industry founded in 2003, wins its first ever WatersTechnology award thanks to its groundbreaking nxFramework. The FPGA framework offers user-firms previously unavailable standardization in FPGA and hardware development, thus providing them with a blueprint for replicating the technology and by so doing reduce the time to market for ultra low-latency applications.
Winning this category in the BST Awards by no means guarantees the recipient commercial success. After all, developing a new technology or service is only half the battle. The other half centers on getting clients to adopt and pay for it, which is where the really hard work begins. That said, Exegy knows a thing or two about taking new products and services to market and there is little doubt that the nxFramework will strike a chord with some of the more niche buy-side shops with algo and high-frequency trading businesses. There will no doubt be similar appeal for the framework across the sell side. What remains to be seen is the extent of the framework’s adoption across an industry where the business case for technology developments, acquisitions and implementations are increasingly scrutinized by executives.
Previous recipients of this category include Ediphy (2023), FundGuard (2022), FX HedgePool (2021), Matrix IDM (2020), Finbourne Technology (2019), AxeTrading (2018), and Thasos Group (2017).
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