Equities Trading Focus: Latency – Safety in Numbers

Safety in Numbers was first published by Best Execution magazine in Spring 2014.

Authors: Asif Abdullah, Jon Batty, Saoirse Kennedy, Anna Pajor, Frederic Ponzo

The approach taken to address low-latency in equity markets is changing – the historical drivers of the pursuit of low-latency no longer hold for equities as the business imperative for low-latency has expired, and banks are beginning to take a more holistic view of latency management.