April 30 saw Intel’s fasterTRADING event take place in London. Over 80 delegates attended to hear and participate in discussion around the challenges of trading and technology, with speakers covering automation of the trading supply chain, network efficiency, low latency technologies and MiFID’s effect on the trading landscape.

Click on the links below to listen to the keynote speakers from the day.

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fasterTRADING event overview

Nigel Woodward - Head of Financial Services, Intel Corporation

Nigel Woodward introduces the concept behind Intel’s fasterFS series of events, how Intel is participating in the financial services industry and some of the key technology developments and initiatives that stand to help move the industry forward. Here he gives an overview of the key themes and areas of discussion brought out at the first fasterTRADING event.

Listen to Nigel’s introduction ›

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Trading Up Against the Technological Frontiers - The New Wave in Financial Markets

Ken Yeadon - Consultant Business Lead and Chief Strategist for FIERCE programme, HSBC

Ken Yeadon of HSBC delivers a keynote in which he talks about the automation of the trading supply chain, the effects of DMA and a new modus operandii for the market. Looking to the future, Ken, while developing his theme of the sell side 4×4 and hedge fund sports car, hypothesises that the next generation of skills required centre around using technology to analyse statistical trends and spot market patterns and trading opportunities, moving away from traditional approaches of active management and sell-side relationship-centric channels.

Listen to Ken Yeadon’s speech ›

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Network optimisation, the effect of proximity & managed fibre connectivity

Kevin Covington - Head of New Products, BT Radianz

Kevin Covington of BT-Radianz discusses the market’s current focus on network efficiency, the moves towards hosting services close to or inside execution venues and the need to look at the overall scenario of the trade infrastructure, taking into consideration the inherent operational risks as the technologies are driven harder and harder for performance.

Listen to Kevin Covington’s speech ›

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Application & platform tuning - navigating the solution maze

John Barr - Lead Solutions Engineer, Financial Services, Intel

Grasping the theme of performance, John Barr of Intel traverses the technology stack to identify where focus should be applied to achieve higher performance and reduce latency. Focusing on the underlying infrastructure, John highlights examples of where quantum gains can be made in performance by tuning components previously rarely addressed in the quest for differentiation. Announcing the launch of the Intel Low Latency Lab, John exposes some of the emerging technologies available to achieve acceleration.

Listen to John Barr’s speech ›

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Operating in the new market infrastructure - MTFs, exchanges, pre & post trade implications

PJ Di Giammarino - JWG-IT Think Tank

Putting performance pressures in context, PJ Di Giammarino of JWG-IT discusses the progress of the European markets towards MiFID and its projected effect on the trading landscape. Touching on the vexatious topic of best execution and when and how to prove it, and comparing EU MTFs with US dark pools – PJ, as usual, paints an illuminating landscape of what we have in store in the coming months and years as the markets evolve their response to fundamental changes in transparency and competition.

Listen to PJ Di Giammarino’s speech ›

Download accompanying slides for Giammarino speech

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The Intel proceedings were recorded by Voices in Business ›

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