Via the Finteligent Trading Technology Community comes this interesting presentation by Ken Yeadon which was given at November's Future City event in London.
FUTURE CITY : Trading’s evolving next generation?- control systems, feedback loops, adaptive knowledge capture from Chief Nation on Vimeo.

 
About Ken Yeadon
Ken Yeadon, Chairman Thematic Group, ex HSBC, early inevstor in Currenex and now active in new trading related ventures. Ken has possibly unrivaled experience across the...

Via Sal Arnuk from Themis Trading coming this interesting presentation on HFT.

Ciamac Moallemi is the Barbara and Meyer Feldberg Associate Professor of Business in the Decision, Risk, & Operations Division of the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University.
His research focusses on the optimal control of large-scale stochastic systems, with an emphasis on applications in financial engineering.

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As part of ongoing efforts to safeguard market integrity, FIA European Principal Traders Association today published a set of best practices to help principal trading firms prevent market manipulation and reduce risks.
“Technological progress has transformed the trading landscape in recent years. These changes have brought substantial efficiencies and other benefits to the market, but they have also introduced new sources of risks to the markets," FIA EPTA chairman Remco Lenterman said....

This brand new section of the HFT Review website is intended to become a central point for information, commentary and discussion around FPGAs and the use of Hardware Acceleration in Trading.

Although FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) technology has been around since the mid-1980s, it is only within the last two to three years that it has been adopted to any real extent in the financial markets.
Originally developed for the defence and telecoms industries, FPGAs are basically a type...

Capital markets firms are recruiting graduates from the top schools in computer science and other majors to train the next generation of IT talent.
Ivy Schmerken at Wall Street Technology writes:

Despite the view that the U.S. economy is sluggish and it's hard for new college graduates to get a job, financial services firms are hiring. In fact, top Wall Street companies are reaching out to the elite colleges in a huge way to bring in the best and brightest graduates whom they...