High Frequency Trading

Overview

In the world of high frequency trading, speed is king. The technological arms race continues between Exchanges and Multilateral Trading Facilities, with ever increasing trading speeds possible. IBM counts both high profile exchanges and MTFs amongst its customers. Our solution set around Low Latency Messaging is full featured and is helping customers around the world seek the microsecond speed advantages they need to compete.

Solutions and Literature

Solution Highlights

IBM WebSphere Front Office for Financial Markets is a scalable, high-performance, low-latency market data delivery platform.

It offers a rich feed handler portfolio and enhanced platform capabilities, combined with low-latency messaging for high-throughput, ultra-low-latency connectivity to market data sources.

• Feed handler support for over 100 data feeds, including major American, European, and Asian data sources
• Consolidated order book capability, combining order book feeds into a single consolidated view
• High throughput and low latency multicast and point-to-point message transports
• High availability and load balancing features
• A manageable platform supporting entitlements, performance monitoring, single namespace, and an integrated Eclipse-based administrative desktop
• Distributed cache server, with delay and conflation capability

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IBM WebSphere MQ Low Latency Messaging is a high-throughput, low-latency messaging transport.
It is optimised for the very high-volume, low-latency requirements typical of financial markets firms and other industries where speed of data delivery is paramount

• Very high messaging throughput with low latency
• One-to-many multicast and point-to-point unicast messaging
• Support for User Datagram Protocol (UDP) and Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)
• Stream failover for high availability, with traffic rate and congestion control
• Flexible, fine-grained message filtering
• Lightweight message store

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More Solutions for Financial Markets
IBM has solutions for the front, middle and back office.

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Demonstration Centre

Demonstration Centre

Come and see for yourself some of our solutions for Financial Markets, powered by the IBM Financial Markets Framework.

As announced at SIFMA in June 2010, a comprehensive suite of Financial Markets demonstrations, is being deployed in the IBM Innovation Centre at IBM Southbank, London. This includes a demonstration of a high frequency trading environment that illustrates the microsecond speed advantages that the IBM solution set brings.

The centre is available for customer visit by appointment. Please contact Jonathan Young for more details.