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Electronic Trading in 2015:
Faster or Smarter?
Annalisa Sarasini
@AnnalisaSaras
[email protected]
Faster or Smarter?
• Kilian Jornet
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• Ueli Steck
Faster or Smarter?
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However…
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Electronic trading - the big race
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Evolution of electronic trading
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Or rather…
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Until 2008…
 The new speed bumps….
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The new drivers
 Regulatory obligations
 Funds are getting used for regulations rather than
reducing latency
 Narrowing Margins
 Defensive investment
 Risk Management
 Business Agility
 Through reuse of commodity technology allowing
business to focus on USP
 Technology as a commodity
 Business Functionality as a Service
 Connectivity, Aggregation etc.
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What keeps them awake?
Manage risk
Time to market
Auditing & compliance
Increase revenue
Reduce cost
HOW DO I MAKE
MONEY?
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Open framework
Monitoring
IT Resources
Capacity planning
HOW DO I KEEP
MY JOB?
Capital Markets trading scene setting
Create Book
Distribute Prices
Order Execution
Credit/Risk Management
Post-Trade
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Or sometimes….
Aggregated
Trading
Screen & API
Pre-Pricing
Checks
Rate Controls
Screen & API
Static Data
Repository
Streaming
Algo / eRisk Orders
Post Trade & Risk
Hedging
Rules &
Smart Order
Routing
Position
Book
Internal Bank
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Order
Acceptance
Engine
Order
Books
RFQ
Multi
Bank
Portals
SDP
GUI
Pre-Trade Credit &
Intervention Checks
Credit
APIs
Liquidity
Liquidity
Providers
Dealer
Intervention
Screen
Internal
Crossing
OBO
GUI
RFS
APIs
Aggregation
Client
Pricing
Engine
Distribution
Bank
Pricing
Engine
APIs
API
Today’s challenges
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The big dilemma
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Simplify: Multi-Asset
Aggregation
Bank Pricing
Engine
Client Pricing
Engine
Dealer
Intervention
Screen
Order Acceptance
Engine
Internal
Crossing
Position
Book
Credit
Position
Book
Pre-Pricing
Checks
Aggregation
Bank Pricing
Engine
Client Pricing
Engine
Hedging Rules &
Smart Order
Routing
Algo /
eRisk
Orders
Order
Books
Position
Position
Book
Book
Dealer
Intervention
Screen
Order Acceptance
Engine
Pre-Trade Credit & Intervention
Checks
Aggregated
Trading Screen &
API
Rate Controls
Screen & API
Pre-Pricing Checks
Aggregation
Bank Pricing
Engine
Client Pricing
Engine
Internal
Crossing
Dealer Intervention
Screen
Order Acceptance
Engine
Pre-Trade Credit & Intervention
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OBO GUI
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SDP GUI
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Static Data
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OBO GUI
Multi
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Portals
SDP GUI
API
Static Data
Repository
OBO GUI
Multi Bank
Portals
SDP GUI
API
Simplify: Multi-Asset
One Platform – Multi-Asset
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Flexibility
“80/20” rule – 80% commodity, 20% customisable
Aggregation
Create
Book
Execution algos
Order
Execution
Pricing models
Distribute
Prices
Hedging strategies
Credit/Risk
Mgmt
• Open APIs
• Method of injecting business logic
• Quick to market
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Frameworks and patterns
Everybody is now using multi-core, linux servers with GBs memory .....
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The Disruptor Framework
Non-blocking Message Queues pattern
- How to achieve Transaction Integrity
- A pool of threads will consume each session under the
constraint: only one thread in a session at a time.
S1 S2
Pending
sessions
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Thread pool
Connectivity to the markets
• Adoption of FIX (Financial Interchange eXchange Protocol)
- Equities, FX and Now Fixed Income
• ASCII Tag/Value
• 8=FIX.4.1 9=112 35=0 49=BRKR 56=INVMGR 34=235
52=19980604-07:58:28 112=19980604-07:58:28 10=157
• “The nice thing about standards…” - many variations!!
• FIX engine – understands session protocol & application messages
• QuickFIX, QuickFIX/J, FIX8, etc
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Messaging for distribution
• The low latency race:
 Brokerless architecture
 Multicast
• Messaging appliances
 TCP Fanout
• New Initiatives:
 Aeron: open source high performance messaging
• Smart low-latency and high throughput balance
• Decouples messaging middleware dependencies from internal
architecture
• Multiple transmission media support (UDP, InfiniBand, Shared
Memory, etc.)
• Easy monitoring of buffering on a per stream basis
• https://github.com/real-logic/Aeron
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Monitoring in trading environments
Predict the unpredictable:
• Major events can make you bankrupt
• Not just a latency play
• High performance in terms of both latency and throughput is critical to
success
• Monitor risk/exposure
• Use of standards
• And Open Source
Performance/latency monitoring:
• Averages don’t make sense for latency
• Standard deviations make even less sense
• Need to measure all data and look at percentiles
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And reporting
Transparency – no more black boxes
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Databases
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Back and Front Office
Big Data
Data Analytics and Compliance
Tick Database
Back testing
 NoSQL databases
- MongoDB, Couchbase, Cassandra,etc
Data
Queries
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User Interface - HTML5
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Software as a Service
 At the beginning mainly Colocation for Equities
 Tier 2, Regional Banks, Buy Sides
 Cloud based end-to-end trading solutions
 Multiple variants
 Public Cloud
 Private Cloud
 Completely dedicated environment
Private cloud proves to be more cost effective/most benefits
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Cloud hosting options for Capital Markets
Exchange proximity
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Public Cloud
x
Private Cloud
Dedicated Cloud
3rd Party
Private Clo
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Knowledgeable support
x
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Performance
x
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HA in trading
x
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Outsource IT
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Capital Markets expertise
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Security
x
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Full trade lifecycle control
x
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Regulatory compliance
x
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Incident Response time
x
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Market Exchange testing
x
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Cost
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The global picture
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Faster or Smarter?
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Thank You!
Annalisa Sarasini
@AnnalisaSaras
[email protected]