Judgement Day

Earlier this week I was told by a client (a proprietary trading shop) that they were switching brokers - the bank to which they submit their (cash equities) orders for execution across a range of European and US Equity markets. Now this was intriguing to me - as I happen to know that their new broker implements their client-facing Direct Strategy Access (DSA) offering using Apama. So Apama will be generating orders and sending them to ... Apama. (Via FIX protocol as it happens)

Brought a smile ... but then they told me the rest. They were planning to go via this broker to a range of markets to run some new cross-market arb strategies - apparently their new broker provides access to more European markets with very low latency. One of their primary markets will be the new Turquoise exchange, which will launch in September. At this point you might see where this is going; at Turquoise their orders will be subject to surveillance by the Turquoise Market Abuse Detection system, built on top of ... Apama.

I am smiling no longer. Didn't Skynet start like this?