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People Moves: Chatham Financial, BBH, Isda, and more
A look at the past month’s people moves in the capital markets technology and data space, including Michael Young (pictured), who becomes Chatham’s new chief product and technology officer.
This Week: Afme on T+1, Anna/Isin, McKay Brothers/Quincy Data and more
A summary of the latest financial technology news.
Lower cross-border latencies open HFT opportunities
Automated and high-frequency trading in Asia have generally lagged behind US and European markets. But as low-latency data availability increases, that may soon change.
One step closer: How exchanges are seeking tighter relationships with clients
Increasingly, exchanges are trying to get closer to their customers, in a bid to better understand how they use market data. This move may come at the expense of data vendors that are being gradually squeezed out of the exchange-client relationship.
This Week: Google Cloud/Commerzbank, SmartStream, Anna DSB, and more
A summary of some of the past week’s financial technology news.
Colt Provides Full Hosting Capability in Taiwan
It will provide rack space, hardware hosting, connectivity, and market data for investors accessing TWSE, TAIFEX, and TPEx.
Colt Cuts Japan–Hong Kong Latency to Sub-41ms
Beyond new latency reductions between Tokyo and Hong Kong, Colt will continue to optimize its routes and expand its network coverage.
Self-Service SDNs: The New Era of Networks
The networks that carry market data and trade orders are on the verge of a paradigm shift that will place more control over provisioning and configuring network services into the hands of financial clients.
Colt Taps NPL for Co-Lo Data, Trade Timing Info
The NPL timing data will help firms address regulatory time-synchronization requirements and competitive needs to avoid timing signal interference.
Colt to Launch On-Demand Network in Singapore and Hong Kong
This service is powered by the Colt IQ Network, which connects more than 25,000 buildings globally.
State Street Adds Colt's Achkar to Digital Transformation Team
State Street has hired former Colt executive Ralph Achkar as managing director, digital solutions business partner.
Clients of Verne Global’s Green, Cost-Saving Iceland Datacenter Get Colt PrizmNet Access
Officials say the location and design of the datacenter, located on a former NATO campus, enables clients to make significant savings on hosting costs, compared to traditional facilities in financial market centers.
AWS Taps Colt’s Hutchinson to Drive Financial Cloud Migrations
Hutchinson has previously worked at a variety of network, co-location and infrastructure providers, including Colt, Telx, Equinix, Level 3 and Savvis.
Net Vet Cubbon Saddles Up at Colt
Cubbon brings a career of networking technology experience, including at other financial extranet providers.
Colt Adds Equiduct Connectivity
Officials say that connectivity to Equiduct─alongside the other venues to which Colt already provides connectivity─will support firms' best execution requirements while expanding Colt's regulatory services.
Colt, NovaSparks Ally for FPGA-Normalized Tokyo Feed
NovaSparks has deployed its FPGA technology in the Tokyo Stock Exchange's co-lo facility, "wrapped in" Colt's MarketPrizm API for ease of access.
Colt Embarks on Asia Network Upgrades in Global Expansion Push
Colt is on an aggressive expansion plan to provide its Colt IQ Network service to more enterprise customers in Asia, but in some countries, this requires some groundwork first. Wei-Shen Wong outlines the vendor’s plans in the region.
Colt Preps High-Bandwidth HK Net
This expansion is in line with the network provider’s overall investment project in Asia.
Colt Hires BT Vet Housden in Capital Markets Drive
Housden will be responsible for growing Colt's capital markets vertical with major financial clients in Europe, Asia and North America.
Colt Grows IQ Network Service in Singapore, Hong Kong
The expansion is part of Colt's plan to invest significantly in Asia over the next three years.
Colt/Celent Report: Cloud Data Use to Balloon by 2020
Alsmost all data storage will be cloudbased by 2020, the report predicts.