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Making The Case For Low Latency Management

Every market has its naysayers, but critics claiming that the vital signs of the low-latency management industry are fading should retake the pulse of the market.

In a recent report, Datamonitor says that “low-latency infrastructure for the financial markets is a fast-moving space that shows no sign of slowing down in the face of the greater crisis in the global banking and financial services industry.” The report also points out that the current financial backdrop may actually spur investment, both to exploit increased volatility and to address shortcomings revealed in existing infrastructures through the sudden increases in volume.

Low-latency management is still an emerging market and, like all new markets, it has a growth path to maturity. As trading strategies evolved from telephone and paper orders to automated black boxes, elements such as execution speed and the need for high-performance infrastructures became critical. Add the ever increasing number of trading venues and the exponential growth of automated trading and you have a highly competitive environment where every millisecond counts.

Read the full article: Securities Industry News - Making the Case

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What’s Your Latency IQ?
Capital markets firms have been implementing a number of different strategies for reducing latency – from increasing network bandwidth, to implementing low latency applications, to collocation – giving rise to the question:

What’s next?

Shawn Melamed expands on the concept of Latency Intelligence for improving trade agility. The requirement for high-speed trade infrastructures is well known. However, latency metrics can drive further improvements and peak performance sustainability, ultimately growing the business.

Read the full article: Market Data Insight - What’s your Latency IQ?