16 May 2012 - In this interview with Mark Gorton, Managing Director and Founder of Tower Research Capital LLC, a proprietary trading firm based in New York that specializes in quantitative trading and investment strategies, he discusses:

- How does the wider investment community benefit from proprietary HFT?
- Which criticisms leveled at high frequency trading might be valid?
- HFT in the wider context of the world's financial markets
- Thoughts on the maker/taker pricing model
- Responsibilities of the regulators versus the exchanges
- How might technology transform the markets of the future?

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2 May 2012 - In this interview with Henry Young, CEO at TS-Associates plc and Raymond Russell, CTO at Corvil, Ltd., two of the guiding lights behind the FIX Inter-Party Latency Working Group, they discuss:

- Why developing a new standard around latency measurement is critical to the industry
- Where the demand for Inter-Party Latency is coming from
- What is involved in adopting the standard and the timescales for the release of v1.0
- How IPL will help firms make active use of latency data within trading & execution algorithms
- How the IPL standard is expected to evolve 

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11 Apr 2012 - In this second of a two-part interview with Professor Dave Cliff, Director of the UK Large-Scale Complex IT Systems Research Initiative at the University of Bristol and a member of the Lead Expert Group of the UK Government’s Foresight Project on The Future of Computer Trading in Financial Markets, he discusses:

- How the paradigm of cloud computing is being applied in high frequency trading
- The rapid growth in the use of FPGAs and software-designed silicon for hardware-accelerated trading
- Challenges around greater adoption of adaptive, self-learning algorithms
- Update on the Foresight Project 

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22 Mar 2012 - In this exclusive interview with Leo Melamed, financial market innovator, writer, lecturer, international authority on futures markets and Chairman Emeritus of the CME Group, Inc, he discusses:

- the growth of electronic trading in emerging markets
- the evolution of exchanges and the expansion of futures markets
- "HFT cheetahs" and "regulatory poachers"
- what are the threats to innovation in today's financial markets?
- the changing nature of risk
- technologies to watch in the future

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14 Mar 2012 - In this exclusive interview with Raj Fernando, Founder & CEO, and Leslie Sutphen, Director of Strategies and Implementation at Chopper Trading, the Chicago-based proprietary trading firm, they discuss:

- how to recruit and keep the right staff to stay ahead of the competition
- how risk management has changed in the age of computer-based and high frequency trading
- whether it is ever acceptable for an exchange to bust trades
- the current state of regulation and market structure
- how HFT firms perform a valuable service to the public

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6 Mar 2012 - In this sponsored interview with Yaron Haviv, Vice President of Data Center Solutions at Mellanox Technologies, he talks about about some of the latest technological developments impacting trading systems architectures. Among other things, he discusses:

- Benefits of using the PCIe 3.0 bus for trading applications
- Direct connectivity over 40GbE and Infiniband
- Reducing jitter through lossless networks
- How to reduce system costs and increase efficiency in the data center
- Where server virtualization can be utilised in HFT

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