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Business White Paper by AppDynamics Analyzes Application Performance in Financial Services: The Impact of Transaction-based Application Performance Management
Managing applications in the world of Financial Services (FS) is different from any other industry. Regulations play a pivotal role in the development and support of banks’ business-critical applications, and these regulations often make application management more difficult. However, because … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Finance, Food for Thought, Wall Street, White Paper
Tagged AppDynamics, Application Management, application performance, application performance management, Bain & Company, business-critical applications, business-critical apps, customer loyalty, end user experience, execution of transactions, fee-based transactions, financial services, Fred Reichheld, FS, IT Operations Center, JDBC, level of service, loyalty score, managing business transactions, Mean Time To Repair, monitoring, MTTR, Net Promoter methodology, online payment, online transactions, productivity, Regulations, ROI, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Satmetrix, SDLC, Software Delivery Lifecycle, SQL queries, throughput, Time to Market, Trade Execute, transaction fees, transaction-based APM, transaction-based application performance monitoring, transaction-centric approach, troubleshooting, Web Services
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HFTs are no longer just about the need for speed
While the polarised debate surrounding high-frequency trading continues apace, the world’s HFTs are getting on with their daily business and are quietly being forced to adapt and evolve. Some of this change is being driven by technology. Speed or latency … Continue reading
High-frequency trading tactic lowers investor profits
High-frequency trading strategies that exploit today’s fragmented equity markets reduce investor profits overall, according to new findings by University of Michigan engineering researchers. The study is believed to be the first to examine how a common and lucrative trading practice … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Finance, Food for Thought, High Frequency Trading
Tagged arbitrage, business, high-frequency trading, Investing, stocks and bonds
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Warren Buffett to HFT Critics: “It Doesn’t Make a Difference if You Own Stocks for a Long Period of Time”
Barron’s After announcing 2012 results on Friday, Berkshire Hathaway chief Warren Buffett made one of his regular stops on CNBC, speaking with Becky Quick about all manner of stock-market related issues. On high-frequency trading, and whether it hurts main street … Continue reading
Posted in Equity Markets, Food for Thought, The Wall Street Journal, U.S. Economy, Wall Street
Tagged Amazon, AMZN, BAC, Bank of America, Becky Quick, Berkshire Hathaway, best value, BRKA, BRKB, CNBC, Doug Kass, financial market, goldman sachs, GS, Hedge Fund Manager, High Frequency Trading Leaders Forum 2013, high-frequency trading, High-Frequency Trading Book, high-frequency trading conference, J.C. Penney, JCP, long period of time, low-cost index fund, main street investors, real time quotes, short case, stock market, The Speed Traders, Ultra High-Frequency Trading, Wall Street, Warren Buffett
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How Quality Management System AT 9000 Can Make Automated and High-Frequency Trading Safer?
Financial markets are critical for the growth and prosperity of all economies. Real-time automated trading systems are integral to these markets. However, neither the technology nor market operations underlying automated trading is infallible. Therefore, it is the responsibility and self-interest … Continue reading
Posted in Equity Markets, Food for Thought, Practitioners, Regulatory Updates, World Economy
Tagged Algorithm behavior, American National Standards Institute, Andy Kumiega, ANSI, ANSI X9 D14 Working Group, AT 9000, AT 9000 Advocacy, Automated Trading, automated trading industry, automation, Ben Van Vliet, best practices, Bob Binder, control, Development, economies, financial markets, FPGA in trading, Greg Wood, HFT, HFT conference, high-frequency trading, high-frequency trading conference, ISO, Jim Northey, Justin Bouchard, Keith Fishe, kill switches, Low-Latency, management system standards, market operations, market participants, market stress conditions, market structure, operation, organizational responsibilities, process-driven research, quality management systems, Rajeev Ranjan, Real-time automated trading systems, real-time monitoring, regulation, risk controls, safety to financial markets, Sagy Mintz, software development, software system version management, software version management, Speed Trading, technology, trading technology, Zach Ziliak
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Quantopian Brings Algorithmic Trading To The Masses
According to Forbes’ Tomio Geron, High frequency trading has been scrutinized in recent years because of its links to financial scares like the Flash Crash. But the actual algorithms used to power much of high frequency trading are not well understood, … Continue reading
Call to regulate HFT, dark pool trading venues
According to Andrew White, Retail fund managers have called for high-frequency traders and operators of off-market or “dark” trading venues to be brought into the regulatory net to avoid compromising the integrity of the sharemarket. The Financial Services Council also … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Dark Pools, Finance, Food for Thought, High Frequency Trading, high-frequency journalism, SEC, The Wall Street Journal, U.S. Economy
Tagged Australian Securities & Investments Commission, Dark Pools, Financial Treasury, FSC, HFT, high frequency traders, The Financial Services Council
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Foresight HFT Lead Expert, Cambridge Lecturer Oliver Linton, to Keynote High-Frequency Trading Leaders Forum 2013 London
Professor Oliver Linton, Chair of Political Economy at Cambridge University and Foresight Project Member of the Lead Expert Group on Algorithmic and High-Frequency Trading, will speak at Golden Networking‘s upcoming High-Frequency Trading Leaders Forum 2013 London, “Strategic and Tactical Insights … Continue reading
Posted in Breaking News, Events, Food for Thought, London Stock Exchange, Regulatory Updates, World Exchanges
Tagged Alex Preda, algorithmic trading, AMF, Autorite des Marches Financiers, British Academy, Brokers and Exchanges, Cambridge University, Chris Skinner, Concordia Asset Management, Econometric Society, Edgar Perez, Europe, Executive Director, Financial Services Authority, Financial Services Club, Financial Times, Foresight Project, Forum Trading Solutions, FSA, FT Alphaville, FT Trading Room, Golden Networking, Government Office for Science, Hargreaves Lansdown, Her Majesty's Treasury, high-frequency trading, High-Frequency Trading Leaders Forum 2013 London, Hirander Misra, Imperial College London, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Izabella Kaminska, John Beddington, Katten Muchin Rosenman, King’s College, KNIGHTMARe ON WALL STREET, Lead Expert Group, London School of Economics, Magrino Bini, Markets Division, Millennium Partners, Oliver Linton, Philip Stafford, Philippe Guillot, Political Economy, Rio Tinto, Royal and Sun Alliance, Sam Tyfield, speed traders, Strategic and Tactical Insights for Investors, The Future of Computer Trading in Financial Markets, The Speed Traders, Walter Distaso, Yale University
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