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For X_TRADER® users wanting to develop their own bespoke trading applications, TT API has long been a solution for applications deployed both client-side and server-side. With the sunsetting of X_TRADER well underway, TT API users need to migrate their applications to the TT platform. TT .NET SDK offers these users a similar solution and an easy migration path, with substantial improvements over TT API.

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In my last post, I described the FIX solution provided by TT as “FIX-as-a-service” (FaaS). Indeed, one of the differentiators of TT is that it is a suite of professional trading services delivered using the software-as-a-service (SaaS) model: services that are available from anywhere, on demand, without the need for any pre-allocation of infrastructure or deployment of software.

This is what makes our FIX offering compelling (along with the performance improvements we’ve made along the way), but FaaS is a launching point for two other services that separate TT from the typical “off-the-shelf” trading system: market access and compliance/data-retention.

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By the time I entered capital markets more than a decade ago, FIX had already become mundane, boring. FIX is essential, but so are eating vegetables, drinking water and exercise. None of those are things I really want to do, and they certainly aren’t worth blogging about.

But for the first time in my career, I’m actually excited to talk about FIX. By leveraging the hybrid architecture of TT®, we are putting a modern twist on the boring service of FIX, which we are calling FIX-as-a-service, or FaaS.

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In the last two months, we have accomplished a significant milestone in the development of the TT platform. We’ve rolled out access to 16 new markets, bringing TT very close to market parity with X_TRADER®.

Adding new markets to a trading platform is not necessarily newsworthy. It’s what a software provider like us does multiple times a year, year after year. However, this mass rollout over the last two months has been unique in the way that 10 of those markets were integrated into TT.
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Apama is a streaming analytics service operated by Software AG and a Trading Technologies partner since 2007. Founded in the late 1990s at Cambridge University, Apama was built on complex event processing (CEP) technology, which enables the trading community to execute low-latency trading strategies from the analysis of multiple, disparate streaming data sources.

Today, Apama has built a global client base of over 100 firms, including banks, brokers, prop groups and exchanges across all asset classes. Apama’s algorithmic trading, market surveillance and automated strategies, which are triggered by coded news announcements, leverage Trading Technologies’ connectivity and trading functionality.

Tony Foreman of Apama ​Tony Foreman of ApamaI recently sat down with Apama’s Tony Foreman to hear more about the company’s data analysis and how Apama’s services are benefitting TT customers, particularly with regard to recent regulatory changes.

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