latency news from FierceFinanceIT

The need for speed is acute on Wall Street. A great symbol of that is the opening of the Mahwah, N.J., facility the NYSE Euronext just launched. Beyond the top exchanges, the sell-side is in... Read more...

The chairman of the SEC made some interesting comments regarding the sheer speed of the markets. The SEC (SEC news) needs "to explore whether bids and orders should be regulated on speed so there is... Read more...

So, which exchange offers the lowest latency trades? It's a good question, one that has bragging rights on the line. The Nasdaq has staked its claim: It has announced that it can process orders in... Read more...

When it comes to Wall Street, speed kills--either you or your competition. In an effort to build lower latency services, many firms are setting up shop in New Jersey, which has become something of a... Read more...

How accurate do your latency measures have to be? Measurement is no small task these days. Milliseconds make all the difference between the success and failure of a trade. Lots of bragging rights are... Read more...

Latency is, of course, a marketing issue these days. To survive as a trading or execution firm, you pretty much have to be able to market yourself as a low-latency service provider and produce the... Read more...

Latency is a huge issues these days; people still bring up that Tabb Group report that made clear that low latency is a matter of business survival. No one can ignore it. At a Wall Street &... Read more...

The need for speed is as acute as ever on Wall Street. Just about all the hot technologies are in some form all about cutting the costs of latency in the most efficient way. So it is not surprising... Read more...

We've noted at various times that latency is a huge issue right now. People are still talking about that Tabb Group report. Let's face it, your P&L depends on speed. If you're ion the app... Read more...