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The Carlyle Group has appointed David Marchick, previously a partner advising US and foreign companies on regulatory and strategic issues at law firm Covington & Burling, as a managing
Pamplona Capital Management has held the first closing of its second private equity fund, Pamplona Capital Partners II, having attracted EUR1.3bn in capital commitments.
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Piper has advised independent broker Towergate Partnership on the GBP276m acquisition of Open GI International from Montague Private Equity, less than two years after the original manageme
As the role of hedge funds in the foreign exchange market continues to grow, algorithmic trading and technology are shaping the future of the market, according to a white paper issued by FXall, the
Latency: A measure of delay.
In a market where speed is of the essence, the spotlight falls on the issue of latency. Latency is the time it takes to get a deal done, cancel an order or know what is happening in the market.
Given its importance in today’s trading environment, it will be important to arrive at an industry definition of latency measurement, to ensure that trading venues, systems and infrastructure are all judged by a common standard.
Latency is a statistical function that can be impacted by:
Market participants’ systems and architecture
The architecture and construction of the
It is clear from conversations with a broad range of market participants that inherent latency is a problem for active market participants on current FX trading systems.
Network latency is the time needed to effect a communication between two network nodes.
Much has been made of dark pools of liquidity in the equity market at present. These are financial markets not available or visible to the general public – essentially ‘non-displayed’ liquidity.
The e-FX market has evolved rapidly to meet the changing needs of an ever more diverse group of market participants.
The trend in the FX market as with other asset classes has been towards independent platforms that offer a level playing field with increased transparency to market participants who are becoming ever more sophisticated, and as a result increasingly discriminating.
Today’s e-FX users want to participate in a market with natural interest distributed across a diverse group of participants where they can be confident that everyone is playing by the same rules. As a result, it is important that there
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