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Collection, Collation, Aggregation and Transmission Harnessing the power of FX Market Data. Executive Summary
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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. .
1 1 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?
1 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?
1 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?
1 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?
1 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?
1 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?
1 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?
1 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?
1 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?
1 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?
1 11 What steps are trading firms taking to gain more global access to FX products and display more customised formats?
1 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?
1 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?
1 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?
1 15 What factors should influence trading firms who may be considering the build-versus buy question when it comes to their market data infrastructures?
1 16 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?
David Taylor, Exegy Ilya Gorelik, Deltix Rob Lane, IDC For more information please contact: dtaylor@exegy.com+1 314 218 3635 igorelik@deltixlab.com+1 617 901 7450 rob.lane@interactivedata.com+44 (0) 2078257611
