Collection, Collation,
Aggregation and Transmission
Harnessing the power
of FX Market Data
Executive Summary
This webinar is aimed at both FX sell-side and buy-side trading firms and will be exploring
the nature of the fast changing FX Market Data landscape.
It will also examine the challenges of accessing clean data for high performance trading
applications including research and analytics and the benefits of Cloud computing and
managed services for facilitating more efficient data storage, access and management
activities. Finally it will also touch on the subject of Big Data and the implications this
important development has for the FX market.
Panellists
David Taylor, Chief Technology Officer, Exegy
David Taylor serves as the CTO of Exegy, the premier provider of hardware-accelerated market data
solutions. He previously served as vice president of product management and vice president of
engineering. He is an inventor on 24 US and 35 international patents and patents-pending. Prior to
joining Exegy, David served as a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science
and Engineering at Washington University in Saint Louis.
Ilya Gorelik, Founder & CEO - Deltix, Inc.
Ilya Gorelik is Founder and CEO of Deltix. Deltix is a leader provider of software solutions for
quantitative research and automated trading. The Deltix Product Suite provides end-to-end support for
all phases of the alpha discovery and automated trading life-cycle .These include data collection and
aggregation, model development, back-testing, optimization, simulation, and deployment to production
trading. Ilya has a Ph.D. in Computational Mechanics from Moscow Technical University. He also has
an MS in Mechanical Engineering from Minsk Technical University.
Rob Lane, General Manager – Real-Time Feeds and 7ticks EMEA, Interactive Data
Rob Lane is General Manager for Real-Time Feeds and 7ticks, EMEA at Interactive Data. Rob is
responsible for the development of the company’s real-time data and 7ticks business in the EMEA
region across sales and operations. Prior to his current role, Rob Lane has held a number of roles in
the company including European Business Manager for Trading Solutions, Markets Manager for
Electronic Trading and Sales Director for Interactive Data's Real-Time Services and Managed Solutions
businesses covering the UK, Ireland, Scandinavia, Middle East, Eastern Europe and Africa.
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What do you see as the main challenges facing FX trading firms as they try to
manage unprecedented volumes of market data for their trading, analytics and
risk management operations and what pressures is this placing on their front,
middle and back office infrastructures?
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2
Is FX likely to follow the same path blazed by equities, options, and futures in
the way participants address the various complex data management issues
associated with high performance trading such as latency and co-location and
what lessons can they draw from how these issues have been tackled in other
markets?
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3
What are the key benefits of the Cloud for accessing and delivering FX market
data and how can the Cloud-based services be leveraged for data-intensive
processes such as back-testing, quantitative research and transaction cost
analysis?
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4
How can the attributes of a wider range of FX market data be harnessed to
undertake more effective analytics for building and testing of trading models
and algorithms?
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5
How big of a problem is data loss for financial trading firms and what sort of
solutions are now becoming available to help them combat this?
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6
What type of applications can firms employ to get a better understanding of
the quality and accuracy of the market data they use and what sort of metrics
can be obtained which they can act on?
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7
Where do the benefits of managed market data services lie for those FX
trading firms who are looking to achieve faster time to market and lower total
cost of ownership?
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8
Is storing market data as big a problem as it used to be and how might new
technologies such as automated storage tiering which is being used to
improve the management of Big Data, be deployed across the FX trading
environment?
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9
What factors are driving the growth in direct market data feed usage in FX and
what are the relative merits between these feeds which serve a certain
segment of traders and consolidated feeds which some believe are generally
better for those moving into new geographies and asset classes?
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10
What steps can trading firms take to overcome any issues in integrating new
ultra fast feed handlers specifically designed for the FX market and also to
minimize the effort and risk of migrating applications?
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11
What steps are trading firms taking to gain more global access to FX products
and display more customised formats?
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12
In what ways might the arrival of new data sets from both OTC and exchange
sources open up new and innovative value-added analytics in FX?
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13
What sorts of advanced attributes should FX trading firms be looking for from
market data platforms in order to meet their demands for additional capacity,
low latency, reduced cost of ownership and more flexibility?
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14
Many trading firms will be looking to use historical market data in order
to build models and test strategies. In what ways can this type of data
be enriched?
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15
What factors should influence trading firms who may be considering the buildversus buy question when it comes to their market data infrastructures?
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What advantages exist for trading firms in partnering with specialist technology
providers who can offer next generation platforms and proven capabilities
across market data capture, connectivity and distribution chains?
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Questions
For more information
please contact:
David Taylor, Exegy
Ilya Gorelik, Deltix
Rob Lane, IDC
dtaylor@exegy.com
+1 314 218 3635
igorelik@deltixlab.com
+1 617 901 7450
rob.lane@interactivedata.com
+44 (0) 2078257611
THANK YOU