High Performance eTrading

With electronic trading the norm across all asset classes, technology is firmly placed at the front and centre of the trading business. Citihub ensures that software and infrastructure are effectively leveraged to create new execution services, identify market opportunities, improve pricing and execution quality, reduce costs and gain a competitive advantage.

We understand that your systems need to be scalable to support the growing number of transactions and market data update rates, and often flexible enough to support multiple asset classes. We have the capabilities to select, deploy and manage:

• Direct feeds and exchange gateways
• Order and Execution Management Systems
• Pricing and algorithmic trading engines
• Complex Event Processing (CEP) engines
• Smart Order Routers (SOR)

>> The 451 Group Take: Citihub well-placed as low latency arms race becomes fiercer (News)
>> Latency remediation in eTrading platforms (White Paper)
>> IMD Special report on latency (Commentary)
>> 300% increase in eTrading application performance (Case Study)
>> 75% reduction in eTrading latency (Case Study)

  

The Citihub Latency Framework (CLF)
Latency reduction is a key business objective and Citihub offers a comprehensive framework to review, understand and then remediate latency. Our latency framework is used to review end-to-end latency and detect causes and bottlenecks right across the latency stack (networks, infrastructure and applications). The framework includes strategic and tactical recommendations to mitigate latency risks.

 

Low latency network architecture
Latency caused by distance is unavoidable, but selecting the right network and accompanying technologies can save milliseconds. With 10 years experience in sourcing telecoms providers, Citihub offers an architecture service that specifically focuses on your networks and the technology utilized, to maximize bandwidth availability and reduce latency jitter.

eTrading infrastructure strategy
Citihub consider the objectives from the perspectives of both the IT department and the business as a whole. Working closely with your people, we’ll develop an infrastructure and platform strategy to support high performance eTrading. We have worked with customers on their direct feed ticker plant and smart order routing deployment models, co-location and proximity hosting strategies and tick capture and storage architectures and building out new latency monitoring components. For some clients (primarily hedge funds or high frequency trading firms), Citihub is providing a complete “CTO as a Service” offering. This gives these customers access to the full depth and breadth of the combined Citihub consultancy knowledge on an on-demand basis.

Proximity hosting and co-location
Competitive advantage can be gained by moving trading applications as close to your trading venue as possible, Citihub offer models to help you select and migrate to proximity hosting data centres. This framework is designed to address the unique infrastructure and application challenges you face when trying to get as close to an execution venue as possible.

Save time sourcing new software and technology with Accelerated Vendor Discovery (AVD)
Sourcing software and technology is a time consuming and complex process, especially when the end solution is a combination of multiple integrated components. Citihub offers you a shortcut to the typical RFI/ RFP process, by using a combination of high-value technical and commercial workshops to help staff make an informed investment decision, quickly. Citihub have helped customers source direct feed ticker plants, Complex Event Processing, algorithmic trading engines and auto-hedging solutions.