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Chronicle Map and Kayzen Case Study
Chronicle Map is an open source high-performance distributed in-memory key-value store, built for low-latency and multi-process applications. Designed for efficient concurrent access across multiple writers and multiple readers, writes scale well up to the number of available hardware execution threads, whilst reads never contend with each other and so scale freely. The shared memory segments…
Read MoreChronicle Software adds Reactive Markets institutional trading Switchboard network to Chronicle FIX
Offering institutions additional ultra-low latency trading access to multiple FX and Digital Markets liquidity pools via a single API London, New York, Singapore 20 July 2021: Chronicle Software (Chronicle), a specialist provider of low-latency technology solutions for the financial services industry, today announced the expansion of Chronicle FIX connectivity providing simplified access to additional pools…
Read MoreChronicle FIX Update
In the last 12 months we have secured many new clients for our low latency java based FIX Engine this clients including a global rollout for a Tier 1 Bank, several major brokers particularly in North America and a large Stock Exchange. This growth in clients has also led to some significant new enhancements of…
Read MoreLeading North American Stock Exchange adopts Chronicle’s FIX engine
High performance Chronicle FIX provides markets’ lowest latency and highest throughput connectivity to exchange clients. London, UK and New York, NY, 13 July 2021: Chronicle Software (Chronicle), a specialist provider of low-latency technology solutions for the financial services industry, announced today that a prominent North American exchange has implemented their market leading FIX engine to…
Read MoreLinux File Systems and Application Latency
By The Chronicle Team 14th June 2021 Financial trading systems require extremely low latency. In modern markets, financial instrument pricing changes very rapidly, and a client’s profit or loss can be impacted by a delay in pricing awareness down to a few hundred nanoseconds. For this reason, there is a financial benefit in achieving low…
Read MoreThe IKEA effect
The IKEA effect is a fascinating phenomenon whereby consumers place a (sometimes disproportionately) higher value on things that they have either made themselves, or to which they’ve contributed towards making. This can have a significant influence on perceived value – to the extent that people might value imperfect things they’ve helped create, more than they…
Read MoreUOB taps Chronicle Software’s solution for its electronic FX pricing and trade engine to help customers access more competitive FX pricing
Singapore, London, 2 June 2021 – UOB today announced that it has deployed Chronicle Software’s (Chronicle) EFX solution for its electronic foreign exchange (FX) pricing and trade engine. Through Chronicle’s technology, UOB has the ability to take advantage of reduced latency via co-location connectivity to improve price discovery and to enhance pricing capability. In doing…
Read MoreTrading System Innovation and Trivially Copyable Objects
What’s in a trading system? Trading systems are complex beasts. They’ve got to be functionally rich, enabling traders to execute a range of order types and trading strategies, across multiple asset classes. They’ve also got to deliver extremely high-performance end-to-end latency and throughput, so that those traders can rapidly access market data and trading venues.…
Read MoreBig Data and Chronicle Queue
By Peter Lawrey December 2020 The Big Question How is Chronicle Queue being used for Big Data solutions in Java, and how does it work under the covers? What is Chronicle Queue? Chronicle Queue is a persisted journal of messages which supports concurrent writers and readers even across multiple JVMs on the same machine. Every…
Read MoreDeveloping Low Latency Trading Systems with Chronicle Microservices
Peter Lawrey 14th April 2021 Introduction to Chronicle Services Traditionally, low latency trading systems were developed as monolithic applications in low level languages such as C++. While these systems delivered the required performance, the development effort was extremely time consuming, and the complexity of the software made it difficult to adapt existing applications to changing…
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