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Mon, 24 Mar 2008 09:32:52 -0500

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SWIFT Still Struggling to Attract Fund Managers

Tue, 02 Oct 2007 10:03:50 -0500

Despite having almost half of its business come from the securities industry, SWIFT is still having a difficult time getting fund managers to join the network, SWIFT CEO Lazaro Campos told Wall Street & Technology in an exclusive interview at SWIFT's annual conference in Boston. In order to attract fund managers, Campos says SWIFT will focus on ease of use and a better fee structure.

SIBOS 2007 Snippet: BT and Low Latency

Mon, 01 Oct 2007 15:56:07 -0500

When you pick up a phone, you usually don't think about how the call gets from your handset to the person on the other end. But as trading requires lower and lower latency, many traders have started to think about how their orders and messages get from point A to B.

Many associate BT with just telephones in Britain, but the London-based company has almost equal in size in the U.S., according to Chris Pickles, manager of industry relations for BT Radianz. BT has 4,500 financial services clients in the US, another 4,500 in Europe and a couple of thousand in Asia, he reports. And, globally, BT handles 100 million messages per second.