Wall Street Letter conducted its first “twitterview,” or an interview over Twitter.com, on Feb. 27 on transparency and efficiency in the collateral management process. Managing editor Jeanene Timberlake tweeted with John Avery, a partner at SunGard Consulting Services, and Kevin McPartland, an analyst at the TABB Group, on how buy- and sell-side concerns have changed […]
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Wall Street Letter – Equities Trading Industry Tackles Latency Measurement
The demand for a latency standard has increased with the rise in high-frequency trading, higher trading volumes and more volatility. Latency has been reduced in some cases to microseconds, which makes measurement difficult, said Kevin McPartland, an analyst with the TABB Group. The recent proliferation of data types means that a trader must use multiple […]