Tabb Group news from FierceFinanceIT

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...

We tend to think about single points of failure in terms of hardware. Wall Street has certainly been trained on the issue of redundancy and catastrophe planning, but the recent credit crisis has made... Read more...

There once was a day when block trades were the way to go. But the focus on costs and anonymity gradually whittled away at the concept. Today, orders tend to be chopped up and executed piecemeal. The... Read more...

Goldman Sachs, which owns the high-volume Sigma X dark pool, wants to edge into the crossing network market. It has announced a service that will offer a single cross, at 10:30 a.m. It may add an... Read more...

The conventional wisdom for the past several years, has been that the buyside--feeling empowered by technological advances--was bent on managing their own orders. Via algorithms, DMA tools or dark... Read more...

Despite a lot of conjecture to the contrary, it seems that hedge and other funds are as committed as ever to the use of algorithms. According to a recent Tabb Group report, the top providers by... Read more...

The credit crunch has been accompanied by all sorts of doom-and-gloom pronouncements about Wall Street firms and IT spending. The consensus is that it is heading south in a dramatic way. The Tabb... Read more...

There has been lots of talk about how human traders are being disintermediated by electronic trading services. Working as a cash equities trader hasn't carried a lot of cachet on Wall Street for... Read more...

Two of the biggest names in the dark pool industry have escalated their rivalry, reports Dow Jones, via the Wall Street Journal's Marketbeat blog. Back in May, Goldman Sachs inked a deal to link its... Read more...

Larry Tabb, of the Tabb Group, notes that the number of Dark Pools is heading toward 50. We keep hearing about consolidation but I don't see it happening. All the while, the landscape continues to... Read more...