With Reg NMS causing more quote message traffic in equities and options volume already exploding, vendors are pushing hardware acceleration to lower data latency. (More)
Bloomberg B-Pipe Market Data Feed Stirs Up Competition As the market data business shifts toward providing direct exchange feeds for electronic trading applications, competition is looming among the low-latency market data infrastructure providers distributing Bloomberg B-Pipe - Bloomberg's new consolidated, real-time, high-volume market data feed.