ARQA Technologies at the 2nd international TradeTech Russia 2010 exhibition and conference

ARQA Technologies took part in the 2nd international TradeTech Russia 2010 exhibition and conference, which was held in Moscow on October 26-27, 2010.

It was the second time that the British company WBR, an organizer of international exhibitions and conferences dedicated to the development of technologies and international financial markets infrastructures, held this exhibition and conference in Moscow. This year the mainstream of the event were issues of developing and implementing the trading and risk management effective strategies at the Russian and international exchanges.

In the exhibition part big foreign and Russian ‘players’ have participated: brokers - Otkritie Securities Limited, Nomura, Renaissance Capital, ATON, UniCredit Securities; foreign interbroker networks - Sungard, Fidessa, Ullink; foreign banks - Saxo Bank and Deutsche Bank; foreign and Russian software developers and vendors; Russian exchanges – MICEX and RTS.

In the conference special attention was paid to the possibility of implementing ‘dark pools’ algorithms and technology; practices of balancing risks connected with different timing settlements; the foreign companies experience in MTS development. A special session on FIX protocol usage was held for the conference participants.

At the conference ARQA Technologies introduced the line of solutions for comprehensive automation of brokerage and banking business at the financial markets – QUIK- midQORT-backQORT. Within the framework of QUIK software package, the possibilities for the Russian and foreign brokers to be connected to the Russian and foreign exchanges directly and via the national and foreign platforms and interbroker networks were introduced. Low-latency solution FIX2Market and Algorithmic Trading Module were of great interest among the participants.