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This Week: Trading Technologies, Goldman Sachs/Digital Asset, SimCorp/Citi and more
A summary of some of the past week’s financial technology news.
Weighing the Benefits: Hardware Vs Software
In the pursuit of new ways to eliminate latency from the market data distribution and trading processes, vendors have invested in hardware-acceleration technologies, such as FPGAs. But with commodity chips now giving specialist hardware a run for its…
Exegy Establishes Data Port POP in Hong Kong
Users will be able to receive cash equities and cash derivatives market data through the shared appliance, rather than installing ticker plants on premise.
Exegy Bows Fifth-Gen Data Appliances, In-House NIC
The new appliances leverage an in-house-developed network interface card that enables the vendor to boost data processing and distribution.
FCA to Tackle Big Data, Expects Firms to Act Ethically
Charles Randell says data and technology usage by firms should "liberate" not "disenfranchize" consumers, and regulation is "central to defining" ethical practices.
Exegy Unveils Replay Tool for Testing BestEx, Infrastructure Performance
Exegy's Journal Replay device will make it easier for users to test against high-volume, high-frequency data, and to demonstrate best execution for clients.
NovaSparks Bows NovaLink to Connect Ticker Plant to Client FPGA Systems
The FPGA-to-FPGA link allows users to bypass CPUs that can add latency and processing time.
NovaSparks Adds CBOE As First FPGA Direct Options Feed
NovaSparks has designed its own FPGAs to cope with the high-volume, bursty nature of equity options feeds.
Solace Gives CJC Support Certification Nod to Meet Growing Demand for Support
CJC officials say the company has seen a recent surge in demand for support around Solace technologies.
Exegy Bows Data Tone-Edge Cache Combo for Mid-Tier Buy-Side Firms
Combining two of its existing solutions will allow the vendor to serve the needs of enterprise applications in remote locations.
Exegy Doubles Appliance Capacity, Adds Derivatives Auction Support
The move is in response to anticipated increases in data messages resulting from new trading venues
Exegy Bows Entitlement, Usage Monitoring Hub
The entitlements component is a response to clients using Exegy's appliances to serve enterprise data-consuming applications.
Solace Bows Software Versions of Messaging Appliances
The software versions will allow clients to leverage Solace's message routing technology in any environment.
NovaSparks Adds CHX Handler, Completing US Equities Coverage
Support for all US protected markets will allow users to calculate best bid and offer prices at lower latency.
Exegy Ramps Up Data Capacity, Monitoring in 4th-Gen Appliance
New appliances will deliver significant processing, storage and cost improvements, officials say.
Exegy Bows Handler for Aequitas Neo Feed
St Louis, Mo-based hardware ticker plant vendor Exegy has developed a new feed handler to process data from Canadian stock market Aequitas NEO Exchange, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Toronto-based startup Aequitas Innovations, in response to client demand…
Solace Taps SL Corp to Monitor Message Routers
Ottawa-based hardware messaging appliance vendor Solace Systems has enlisted IT monitoring solutions provider SL Corp to provide an adapter for SL Corp's RTView Enterprise Monitor, to provide systems administrators and application support teams with…
Revamped Ticker Plant, API, Data Appliances Up Exegy Throughput
St. Louis, Mo.-based hardware ticker plant vendor Exegy has released versions 3.3 of its hardware-accelerated Ticker Plant, Market Data System appliances and Exegy Client API, which will provide customers with expanded order book information on the…
FX ECN Spotex Taps Solace for Data Messaging
Spotex, a foreign exchange trading ECN that launched in June, has confirmed it is using Ottawa-based hardware messaging appliance vendor Solace Systems' routing technologies to provide low-latency messaging for price and trade data between trading…
Crédit Agricole Deploys Solace Appliances for Low-Latency Data
Crédit Agricole's Corporate and Investment Bank is rolling out data routing appliances from hardware-based messaging technology vendor Solace Systems to provide a low-latency data distribution backbone for its foreign exchange, rates and bonds trading…
Solace Boosts Data Appliance Throughput with New Routers
Ottawa-based hardware messaging appliance provider Solace Systems has rolled out two new message routers and a new version of its operating system to support Big Data systems and cloud computing architectures.