White Papers and Research

Acceleration of Trading Performance Requires Measurement

Certain segments of the industry — particularly direct market access traders, like statistical arbitrage shops, and the electronic trading departments of major brokerages — are intent on squeezing out every last bit of latency as they execute trades. In recent years, players in the automated trading industry have been investing heavily in accelerated trading infrastructure. This trend looks set to continue into 2010 and beyond. If you haven’t been jumping on this trend yourself, get jumping! Whether you’re an execution venue, connectivity service provider, market maker, liquidity provider or high frequency trading house, to ignore the fact that your competitors are all playing in the fourth dimension is tantamount to death by a thousand slow trades.

The New Data Imperative: Managing Real-Time Risk in Capital Markets Executive Brief

Your risk exposure changes every millisecond. That's why it's critical to get up to speed on real-time, enterprise-wide risk management. Effective capital and financial risk management now requires that information flows no longer be handled independently in business unit silos; they must be unified for use in front, middle and back offices to aid compliance with internal controls and regulatory demands. Read this executive brief to learn: -Why today's risk management practices underestimate risk exposure -How to get information out of silos and manage risk on an enterprise-wide basis -What you need to create a real-time data strategy that delivers actionable insight to those who need it