Imported from previous forum
CameronTec’s CSO Michel Balter weighs in on the advantages of decoupling complex trading infrastructure in his latest blog… All infrastructure ages. Similarly, IT infrastructure becomes outdated. Message volumes and latency requirements increase. New regulations require ever more transparency into systems that were not designed to give it. Customers expect to be connected to markets faster and with more visibility into their order flow and risk than ever before.
Sell side technology is often cobbled by complex infrastructure that creates all kinds of technical issues challenging their ability to respond to new market demands. While quick to adopt flashy new front-end technology, sell sides have historically tended to apply patches to back-end IT problems rather than address them holistically. This can be a short-sighted approach—deferring but not preventing a systems collapse, and failing to address underlying issues that can ultimately affect a firm’s ability to grow.
To read the entire blog refer http://www.camerontecgroup.com/2015/08/decoupling-helps-sell-sides-future-proof-trading-infrastructure/