Nasdaq liked the idea of real-time market surveillance so much that it bought one of the companies that specialize in it.
Nasdaq OMX announced this week that it will buy Smarts Group, an Australia-based market surveillance business that helps exchanges monitor compliance with trading rules....
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Fat fingers (or weight-challenged digits - for the more politically correct :-) ) are trading errors that can have catastrophic consequences. And they've been happening a lot recently!!
Fat fingers (or weight-challenged digits to my politically correct friends) have had a good run lately. First we heard that Deutsche Bank had to close its quantitative trading desk in Japan after an automated trading system misread equities market data. The system generated a massive sell order that...
I spent last week in India, a country that, by any standards, is growing fast. Its population has doubled in the last 40 years to 1.2B and economic growth has averaged more than 7% per year since 1997. It’s projected to grow at more than 8% in 2010. By...
It was an honor to sit on the CFTC Technology Advisory Committee (TAC) last week. The CFTC is the US regulator for derivatives trading – which is a big area. The topic of the first meeting of the TAC was to understand Algorithmic and High Frequency Trading – and its impact on the market. The CFTC is...
It was an honor to sit on the CFTC Technology Advisory Committee (TAC) last week. I was very impressed with the presentations and discussion, chaired ably by Commissioner Scott O’Malia. I was also impressed by the other Commissioners and with my fellow committee members. This week the CFTC has...
I've mentioned Amazon EC2 a few times here. But did you know that you could build your own elastic cloud infrastructure instead of using Amazon's?
Eucalyptus is software that was...
Last week met with a journalist (Dy.Editor, Murali) from a leading business newspaper in India (Hindu Business Line). We talked about many things that...
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