Russ Chrusciel, product manager – derivatives trading, SunGard Valdi In the past few months, it’s clear that the trend of mega-exchange formation is already underway. Combinations include the London Stock Exchange and Toronto Stock Exchange, Singapore SGX’s bid for Australia’s ASX, BATS Global Markets’ merger with Chi-X Europe, and last but certainly most controversial – [...]
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The Evolution of Electronic Trading: When is fast, fast enough? – by Mark Volker
Over the past year or two, a lot of digital ink has been devoted to technology wars that are re-shaping our capital markets. The terms latency, low-latency, ultra-low latency; high-frequency trading; algorithmic trading; naked-access: they have all entered our lexicon. We have gone from measuring execution times in seconds, to milliseconds, to micro-seconds and nano-seconds, [...]
