Data consumers
OptionsXpress Bows Activ Hardware Ticker
Online derivatives broker OptionsXpress is rolling out Chicago-based low-latency data provider Activ Financial's MPU (Market Data Processing Unit) hardware-accelerated ticker plant to support low-latency and high-throughput processing of incoming market…
Winterflood Deploys IFS BestEx Analytics
UK stockbroker Winterflood Securities has begun using the LiquidMetrix transaction cost analysis platform from London-based vendor Intelligent Financial Systems to benchmark the performance of its Winner electronic market making platform by comparing…
Robeco Cuts Costs with Infomatch ASP
Dutch asset manager Robeco has migrated to a hosted version of the Infomatch market data inventory management software from Dutch vendor Screen Consultants, in a bid to trim the firm's overall cost of supporting the software.
Nomura Eyes Data Tech Latency Gains
The London-based algorithmic trading group of Japanese banking group Nomura is examining technology strategies for reducing market data and trading application latency, after successfully reducing order processing latency by up to 35 percent as a result…