Ticks by SIX platform on AWS provides high-precision historical tick data

SIX has built a scalable data-as-a-service platform using AWS to quickly deliver large, customized historical datasets to financial institutions. “The speed at which the service works and lets us store and retrieve data when we want to, or when the customer wants to, is unparalleled.” Henk D’Hoore, Head of Product Development, Financial Information, SIX Read…

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Levelling the Playing Field: Cloud-Native Analytics for Capital Markets

Read the full insight below or download the PDF version here.   A New Era for Mid-Tier Players Historically, only the large global institutions had the technology budgets for resources and infrastructure to run advanced trading analytics combining petabytes of tick data, high-frequency backtesting models and enterprise-grade risk tools. Mid-tier firms such as regional asset managers,…

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Direct-to-Market Data Distribution Strategy

Direct-to-Market Data Distribution Strategy

Read the full insight below or download the PDF version here.   The traditional model for market data distribution is under pressure. Once fit for purpose, intermediated channels now hinder innovation, obscure pricing and limit access for a growing ecosystem of data consumers. A direct-to-market strategy aims to complement established channels, offering exchanges, specialist venues, infrastructure…

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Enabling alpha generation, execution optimisation and regulatory resilience with an analytics-ready tick data platform

Enabling alpha analytics-ready tick data platform

Read the full insight below or download the PDF version here. Tick data is one of the most valuable and most difficult assets to work with in capital markets. It’s high-volume, high-velocity and essential for everything from trading strategies and backtesting to regulatory reporting. For many firms, legacy systems, inconsistent data formats and siloed workflows…

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Data modernization and moving to the cloud. Common challenges and pitfalls

Pitfalls of Data Modernization

Read the article below or download the PDF version here. In the evolution to a data-centric organization, businesses continually strive to modernize their data infrastructure and unlock the full potential of data assets. In this constant striving for productivity gains and cost control, separating the benefits of data modernization from platform renewal as separate projects…

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Trading in the public cloud: attitudes to cloud adoption in capital markets

Capital markets have been slow to adopt cloud technologies, particularly the public cloud. Even before considering the complexity of migrating legacy applications, practitioners have been concerned with latency, performance, privacy, security and overall cost. Rapid Addition commissioned A-Group Team to survey 20 leading capital markets firms from across the trading spectrum, including exchanges, sell-side banks,…

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