Media Timeline

May 13, 2016

McKay Brothers International Opens Marseille and Madrid POPs

Microwave provider extends services to India/Middle East gateway and Spanish Market May 16, 2016 / Marseille, France & Madrid, Spain / McKay Brothers International (MBI) has added new points of presence in Marseille and Madrid. The new POPs are receive sites for MBI’s private bandwidth subscribers who transmit from Slough-LD4, Basildon and Frankfurt-FR2. Marseille and Madrid are also distribution POPs for the Quincy Extreme Data (QED) service.  The bandwidth and market data services offer the […]
May 12, 2016

Quincy Data Lowers Latency with McKay Brothers Upgrades

Aurora data distributed in NY2 in 4.015 ms OWT; Aurora-Carteret in 3.982 ms May 12, 2016 / Quincy Data, Oakland, CA / The Quincy Extreme Data (QED) service has lowered latency on its microwave market data service between Illinois and New Jersey.  QED distributes select Aurora and Chicago-sourced futures data in major trading centers in New Jersey at the lowest known latency.  QED distributes Aurora data in Secaucus-NY2 in 4.015 milliseconds (ms) one-way, Mahwah in […]
May 10, 2016

Lower Latency and Lower Cost: Having Your Cake and Eating It Too

By Stephane Tyc For years now we have heard about how banks are under increasing pressure to cut costs. In the post-crisis era, a large proportion of spending has had to be earmarked for upgrading systems to meet regulatory requirements. With the latest annual cost of compliance survey from Thomson Reuters showing that 70% of firms expected regulators to publish more regulatory information concerning requirements (with more than a quarter of firms expecting “significantly” more), […]
May 5, 2016

McKay Boosts European Futures Content on QED Wireless Data Service with Euronext Data

The vendor says the QED millimeter-wave wireless service will provide the lowest latencies between Euronext’s co-location facility and other key London datacenters. Joanne Faulkner May 5, 2016 Microwave connectivity provider McKay Brothers International has added equity index futures data from pan-European exchange group Euronext to the Quincy Extreme Data (QED) ultra-low latency wireless data service operated by sister company Quincy Data. Officials say QED subscribers can now receive data on select Euronextinstruments at the lowest […]
May 5, 2016

Euronext Derivatives Added to McKay Brothers’ Quincy Extreme Data Service

Equity index futures at the lowest known latency at major UK trading centers May 5, 2016 / London, UK & Geneva, Switzerland / McKay Brothers International has added Euronext Equity Index Futures to its industry-leading Quincy Extreme Data (QED) service. The QED service now offers select Euronext instruments at the lowest known latency at major UK trading centers. Latency to Slough-LD4 is 273 microseconds, Interxion-LON2 is 140 and Quincy’s Central London POP adjacent to the […]
March 8, 2016

FISD Technology Forum Panel: Low Latency – So Last Year Dahling

Stéphane Tyč enjoyed being part of the Low Latency panel at the FSID Technology forum on March 2, 2016 in London.  
January 15, 2016

Quincy Eyes Asia, Fixed Income for Growth

After initially focusing on the US and Europe for equities and derivatives, Quincy is now looking to Asia and bond markets. Low-latency market data provider Quincy Data plans to add fixed income data to its Quincy Extreme Data microwave service and expand its footprint to Asia in 2016, after completing its London offering at the end of last year. In December, Quincy’s sister company, microwave network provider McKay Brothers, completed its UK millimeter wave network […]
December 17, 2015

McKay Brothers Completes UK Local Wireless Network at Lowest Known Latency

December 17, 2015 / Geneva, Switzerland / McKay Brothers International’s (MBI) Central London POP, adjacent to the London Stock Exchange, is now live.  The Central London POP completes MBI’s UK Local millimeter wave network. MBI connects data centers serving major UK equities, interest rate and FX matching engines at the lowest known latency. For example, latency from Slough-LD4 to a MBI’s Central London POP is 272 microseconds round trip.  Slough-LD4 to Interxion’s Central London location […]
November 24, 2015

Estimating Latency From Market Data

Estimating Latency From Market Data 2015 presented by Stephane Tyc For more detailed information please refer to this white paper.
November 16, 2015

Stephane Tyc at STAC London 2015 with Mike O’Hara from the Trading Mesh

Mike O’Hara from the Trading Mesh caught up with Stephane Tyc at STAC London 2015 to discuss trading in Europe.