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Thursday, 9 June 2011

Highlights from STAC Performance summit June 2011

Major event happened in London Yesterday bringing Buy and Sell sides togther to discuss issues and new inovations within the Securities Finance and Banking industries.

Professionals vendors and specialist consultancies attending the event continue to strive for better performance and less latency for trading purposes, pushing the boundaries of Modern technology and Parallelisation

Through Panel Deiscussion and 5 Minute inovation slots by vendors a full update in the industry was presented

Highlights included:


  • New regulatory body will improve audit of trading techniques included current I.T used. This may include audit of all orders to subdue ' short selling' and other trading methods

  • Oracle details its new 'Appliance' solution called Exadata. This merges propriotory O/S Hardware and Storage for an ultra low latency 'Combined solution'. A Major Market Data Vendor is interseted in implementing this is their latest Position Keeping and Risk system.

  • Discussion on Impact of Non Software Middleware from such companies as Soltace which is alredy offering competative edge to London based trading engines and could have major impact on the 'Top Three' Market Data and Messaging Vendors MQ Series Reuters and Tibco.

  • Further discussion on programing techniques to increase and reduce latency 'Jitter'

  • Changes in Intel and AMD Chips to integrate GPU.

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