A-Team Insight White Paper
Cinnober: Lowering Door-to-Door Latency to 25 Microseconds within 18 months
This white paper was written by Cinnober. Today speed is crucial to any trading venue that wants to stay competitive. At the same time, with high-frequency trading gaining an increasing share of overall volumes, the ability to manage rising transaction volumes is also a necessity. In 2007, Cinnober published a white paper which established some...
Market and Reference Data Converge: A United Front for Data Management
A new industry briefing paper prepared by A-Team Group for GoldenSource looks at the inevitable convergence of market and reference data. There has been, to date, a real disconnect between the management of market data in all its forms and reference data used in post-trade support functions. But this is changing as banks scramble to...
Issue 7: Low Latency – Are You Performing?
Low latency technologies continue to be deployed by the financial markets – driven by the need to adopt them simply to stay in the trading game, and hopefully win at it. But low latency covers a wide range of components – from networks, to server hardware, to operating systems and middleware, to middleware, and to...
Business Entity Identifiers – The Crucial Foundation for Accurate Risk Management (Japanese Version)
As the financial world continues to grapple with the fallout of the credit crisis, one thing is clear: managing risk is now paramount to the surviving financial institutions. But you can’t manage what you don’t know. Many financial institutions have been caught in the current environment through a lack of awareness of their true exposure...
A-Team Group’s Valuations Vendor Directory 2009
An indispensable guide to valuations professionals seeking providers of services in the asset valuations market. A-Team Group’s latest release in its series of directories – available for FREE download – focuses on vendors of valuations data, models and analytics. But this is not just another list of firms with their telephone numbers – you can get that...
Business Entity Identifiers – The Crucial Foundation for Accurate Risk Management
As the financial world continues to grapple with the fallout of the credit crisis, one thing is clear: managing risk is now paramount to the surviving financial institutions. But you can’t manage what you don’t know. Many financial institutions have been caught in the current environment through a lack of awareness of their true exposure...
Issue 6: Low Latency – Are You Performing?
Even as the financial markets undergo unprecedented turmoil, the drive to lower latency shows no sign of abating. Why is this? Put simply, it’s because low latency technologies enable those competing in the financial markets – whether they be sell-side firms, buy-side firms, exchanges or alternative trading venues – to run ahead of the pack....
Sun Microsystems – Building A Low Latency Infrastructure For Electronic Trading
This white paper was written by Sun Microsystems. Authored with input from A-Team Group, it examines the hotspots within an electronic trading environment and considers routes and technologies that might contribute to reducing or even eliminating latency.
Issue 5: Low Latency – Are You Performing?
Market data rates are skyrocketing. Just a few milliseconds make the difference between an optimal order fill and enough slippage to wipe out profit. New opportunities are opening up to leverage high frequency markets. New applications are being deployed atop of low latency architectures. Performance – in every sense – is key to playing in...
Issue 4: Low Latency – Are You Performing?
Market data rates are skyrocketing. Just a few milliseconds make the difference between an optimal order fill and enough slippage to wipe out profit. New opportunities are opening up to leverage high frequency markets. New applications are being deployed atop of low latency architectures. Performance – in every sense – is key to playing in...