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For capital markets firms, the decision to build or buy real-time market data infrastructure carries significant cost, time, and risk implications.  To aid firms in visualizing the investment necessary to…

In today’s markets, edge erodes quickly. For market makers, arbitrage desks, and quantitative funds, alpha signals decay in microseconds, and even minor delays can result in skipped fills, stale quotes,…

Market makers and quant funds rely on their predictive edge, known as alpha, to make profitable trades. However, more than ever, alpha doesn’t last.  Alpha decay, when that predictive power…

A Smarter Path for Brokers Facing Power, Space, and Performance Pressure Co-location space is limited. Power costs are climbing. Yet, market data volumes show no signs of slowing. For many…

The capital market’s industry is entering an uncomfortable new reality: market data volumes are growing without limit, but the prime co-location space and power are not.     For market makers, agency…

The ever-increasing growth of real-time market data, expanding venue fragmentation, and the race for execution speed are placing unprecedented pressure on financial market infrastructure. Firms need to process more data,…

Every business leader is being asked to do more with less nowadays. Rising infrastructure costs, shrinking margins, and growing market complexity make optimization more critical and difficult than ever before.…

Capital markets firms are dealing with a number of complex challenges. Volatility and record-breaking data volumes are redefining the competitive landscape—but that’s only part of the story. While volatile markets can…