Based on FPGAs, Celoxica released a low-latency platform for futures traders seeking to capitalize on short-term price disparities on CME/ICE and Liffe/Eurex.
The market data provider added a Point-of-Presence at the Q9 data center in the Toronto area, to meet customer demand for connectivity to new exchanges and alternative trading systems in the region.
Citi will disseminate the real-time data releases and global economic news to its FX traders and sales staff through the bank's inhouse information service, CitiFX Wire.
An Australian trading technology startup demoed Zeptolink, a network device at SIFMA, this week that achieved latencies of about five nanoseconds, beating conventional data center switches.
Wedbush's Lime Brokerage teamed with NovaSparks to offer an FPGA-based ultra-low latency market data service as part of its new buy-side infrastructure.
Expanding its hardware-accelerated feed handlers, Celoxica will support NYSE Euronext and Xetra cash equity markets, and plans to support the Chi-X user migration to the BATS Europe tech platform.
The exchange will offer Super Cab, a cabinet providing up to 17 killowats of power to operate and cool trading equipment, and will soon roll out 40 Gigabyte connectivity to its US markets and data feeds.
The landmark New York City building's carrier hotel houses 100 domestic and global telecommunications companies and is a key player in colocation for low latency trading and global connectivity to financial markets.
Options exchanges are going after market share by upgrading their trading platforms and moving to third-party data centers -- all in the name of lower latency.
Broker-dealers are modifying their trading systems in order to provide clients with ultralow-latency market connectivity that complies with the new 'naked access' ban.
Equinix sets up online community for companies to search for partners ranging from network connectivity to private clouds to alternative trading systems.
The network upgrade serves high frequency/low latency traders with strategies in London going direct to Nasdaq OMX in Stockholm and Xetra/Eurex in Equinix's Frankfurt data center.
Institutions finally can deploy enterprise-class, cloud-based trading solutions that bridge the gap between the convenience of ASP platforms and the performance of in-house trading systems.