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NYSE launches Mahwah facility

After a whole lot of pre-launch media hype, the NYSE Euronext's new trading facility in Mahwah, N.J., has quietly come to life. About 19 stocks were scheduled to start trading on powerful "matching... Read more...

Sell-side continues to build out data centers

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...

Time for chief latency officer?

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...

What are your single points of failure?

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...

More on the NYSE and block trades

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...

Crossing market getting crowded

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...

High-touch trading making a comeback?

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...

Algorithm usage holds up well

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...

Why are IT vendors so optimistic?

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...

In man vs. machine battle, man seeks upper hand

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...

Press Releases

TABB Group Sees Low-Touch Order Channels Accounting for 62% of Buy Side Firms’ Options Trading by 2011

Evolving Market Structure and Complexity Drive Adoption of Trading System Technology Options Algorithms to Represent 28% of Total Trading by 2011 NEW YORK & LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The Read more >>

Richard Fleischman & Associates Identifies the Big Eight Standards of Business Sustainability to Ensure a Culture of Compl

Event Highlights Fundamentals Necessary To Achieve A Proactive Environment Of Corporate Reputation And Investor Trust Culture Will Strengthen Roles Of Technology And Operations, Leading To Strong Read more >>

TABB Says Buy Side Use of Algorithms Will Rise to 35% in 2011, on Par with High-Touch Sales Traders for the First Time

New Research Details Low-Touch Trading Trends in the US Equity Markets Based on Interviews with 123 US-based Asset Managers and Hedge Funds NEW YORK & LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- With asset Read more >>

TABB Says Long-Distance, Low-Latency Networking Increasingly Critical To Trading

North American Financial-Services Firms to Spend $2.2 Billion in 2010 on Connectivity Two New Research Reports Reveal the Dividing Line between Data-Center and Optical Networking for Capital Markets Read more >>

TABB Says Equity Swaps Are Critical Tool for Hedge Funds Accessing Emerging Markets

Trading in Emerging Market Equity Swaps Forecast to Rise at 22% CAGR by 2011 as Funds Turn to Synthetics over Cash Equities Prime Brokers Compete for New Business Based on UCITS III Launches and Read more >>