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Platform Economics – the Similarities Between Car Production and Electronic Trading

What do the Audi Q7 & Q8, the Bentley Bentayga, the Lamborghini Urus, Porsche Cayenne, and Volkswagen Touareg have in…

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Trading Technology

FIX Trading Community 2019 speaks to Rapid Addition’s Kevin Houstoun

Our chairman, Kevin Houstoun, caught up with Fintech Finance TV at the FIX Trading Community Conference to discuss FGPA solutions,…

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Equity Fixed Income

How Much Should I Pay For A FIX Engine?

Why pay for a FIX Engine? Over the last couple of decades, the FIX protocol has become pervasive in capital…

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Sell-side Trading Technology

Mitigating Risk When Migrating Trading Platforms

The longer your infrastructural software is kept operational, the greater the risks. Problems embed themselves deep in the code, making…

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Kevin Houstoun Discusses the Importance of a Common Platform for Building Differentiation with TRADE TV

Tell us about the focus around non-differentiating infrastructure If you look at what a bank does, a bank has a…

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Why do Banks Continue to Build Non-differentiating Components?

What could Investment Banks learn from Apple’s approach to the supply chain? How can they use the same approach to…

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Reduced Latency is Winning the War Against Stale Prices

FIX engine platform vendors must continuously improve performance if they are to keep meeting clients’ demands, says Rapid Addition Chairman…

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Developing Trading Algorithms—Buy Vs Build

Electronic Trading Infrastructure & Algorithms It is always hard when you hear the phrase ‘veteran of the industry’, especially when…

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