Posted on June 11th, 2007
Intel has launched a brand new laboratory that will help financial institutions fine tune their trading systems, and ultimately improve business performance.
The laboratory - known as the Intel Low Latency Lab based in Winnersh - will provide an environment for firms to try out a wide range of technologies in a controlled environment before rolling them out internally, helping minimize risk and maximize potential returns from technology investments.
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Posted on June 11th, 2007
Organizations in the financial markets today are faced with a number of internal, regulatory, and competitive pressures. Internally there are calls for improved collaboration and alignment between IT, operations, and business departments. IT executives are being tasked with reducing complexity, lowering costs, operating more efficiently, and being more responsive to business requirements.
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Posted on June 11th, 2007
Banks, corporates and technologists gather round the table to discuss supply chain innovation: trends, issues and future opportunities. At Sibos 2006 in Sydney, Nigel Woodward, head of financial services at Intel, hosted a roundtable on the financial supply chain.
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Posted on June 11th, 2007
Thomson Financial is a leader in providing global financial service companies with sophisticated information solutions that combine real-time market data and integrated workflow. Thomson Financial customers can make – or lose – millions of dollars in milliseconds, so they demand the ultimate in performance and reliability.
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Posted on June 11th, 2007
City IT budgets are set for another year of growth in 2007, albeit at a slower pace than the double-digit hikes seen in 2006, according to a survey conducted by Finextra Research.
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Posted on June 1st, 2007
Welcome to the second edition of Intelligence in Finance. In the last issue, we looked into trading and the low latency arms race. This time we are focusing on data and the manageability of system infrastructures, highlighting how the latest technologies are bringing major advantages to the management of server and desktop real estate.
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Gary Thall
Financial Services Director US
Intel |
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Posted on June 1st, 2007
As predicted, the run-up to the November deadline and the dreaded summer budget and planning cycles are raising the heat on MiFID conversations. Gone are the days when uncertainty was acceptable. Technology leaders are now placing bets on how to be tested and ready for their employers, their customers, and the regulators in less than 80 business days.
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PJ Di Giammarino
CEO
JWT-IT Group Ltd. |
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Posted on June 1st, 2007
While Reg NMS is not fully rolled out (the broker routing requirements are due to go live in early July), the two major take-aways from the early exchange Reg NMS experience tell us to pay attention to 1) differences between Reg NMS-compliant routing and best execution and 2) the industry’s data infrastructure.
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Larry Tabb
Founder & CEO
TABB Group |
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Posted on June 1st, 2007
MiFID, Basel II, RegNMS, and other regulatory directives all seem to be coming at the same time. From front through middle to back office and across the market’s infrastructures, data and its usage is exploding. At the centre of this transformation lies a data challenge. The challenge rests not only with the relatively well-known disciplines of data volumes, handling, maintenance, and storage, but also with the emergence of new interactions between producers and consumers of data—and the information derived from it.
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Nigel Woodward
Financial Services Director UK
Intel |
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Posted on June 1st, 2007
In 2006, Intel’s core microprocessor architecture made its debut with dual-core and quad-core variants. This year, these technologies are being augmented with multi-core and 45 Nanometer advances. The superior performance improvements offered by these parallel chip technologies have placed Intel firmly in front of the trading technology arms race—where microseconds really do count.
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Rob Wenham
Financial Services Sector Business Manager
Intel |
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