EXclusive Quantitative Investment Management selects OneMarketData's OneTick CEP and Database to power its quantitative research and strategy development
Paris, August 30, 2010 - OneMarketData, LLC, the leader in complex event processing (CEP), tick data management and analytics, today announced that EXclusive Quantitative Investment Management (EXQIM), a French company focused on developing and deploying diversified arbitrage strategies, has selected OneTick CEP and Database to support quantitative strategy development and deployment within the European and U.S. equities markets.
After a competitive evaluation, EXQIM selected OneTick CEP and Database for its unmatched integration of real-time streaming market data and historical tick data, which supports quantitative strategy development, testing and real-time signal generation. Built from the ground up as a unified platform, OneTick lowers the total cost of ownership of a CEP and high performance database solution by eliminating the need for multiple systems. It also accelerates the data querying process by allowing quants to create one set of code for real-time and historical queries.
"At EXQIM, we are committed to leveraging innovative technologies that help us minimize human error and capitalize on new investment opportunities within the global markets," said Jacques Lucas, founder and president of EXQIM. "Through OneTick's seamless CEP and database integration as well as its built-in business logic, we can accomplish these goals by reducing opportunities for human coding errors and empowering users to rapidly bring new investment strategies to market."
EXQIM plans to use OneTick CEP and Database to support its entire quantitative research and development process. EXQIM will leverage OneTick to capture, store and analyze real-time and historical U.S. and European equities data as well as generate trade signals from real-time streaming data sources.
"We are excited to provide EXQIM with a single, unified solution for capturing and analyzing real-time streaming and historical market data," said Richard Chmiel, vice president of sales for OneMarketData. "OneTick CEP and Database will empower EXQIM's quants to explore new trends and test ideas rapidly to help increase the profitability of their strategies."
With a global presence spanning Asia, Europe, South America and the U.S., OneMarketData's OneTick is the leading solution for financial institutions looking to handle all their complex tick data needs, including quantitative research, algorithmic trading, mathematical strategy back testing, historical book reconstitution, real-time aggregated book building, transaction cost analysis, execution quality analysis, real-time statistics and analytics publishing, and more.
OneTick CEP and Database collect and process millions of ticks per second on one CPU and archive billions of ticks per day globally, providing uniform access to all tick data, up to and including the latest tick. A multi-asset class solution, OneTick includes an easy-to-use graphical user interface to access all data including equities, fixed income, futures, FX and options, as well as full order book data. With no limitations on data volumes, peak rates or length of stored history, it allows users to access one integrated database for all quantitative research needs.
About EXQIM
EXQIM is an asset management company founded in 2009 by four people with an overall experience of several decades with financial markets.EXQIM's objective is to develop and deploy diversified arbitrage strategies built with an exclusively quantitative, systematic and fully automated approach. This sets EXQIM apart from classical discretionary asset management, as is generally found in the European asset management industry. EXQIM relies heavily on cutting-edge mathematical models and on the latest software and hardware innovations. Its key stance is that:
EXQIM employs young and brilliant researchers and engineers from top-tier Universities and Engineering Schools to research and develop innovative and robust investment strategies. It also collaborates with several academic partners with international recognition to enhance its research capabilities.
About OneMarketData
OneMarketData is a leading provider of enterprise tick data solutions for financial institutions worldwide. OneTickTM, its flagship product, is a comprehensive business solution designed to fully address the market's need for intraday data collection, archiving, retrieval, and analytics across a wide spectrum of users from various departments. The OneTick Platform includes high-performance OneTick Archive and In-Memory Databases, OneTick Event Processing Engine, OneTick Analytics, and a wide array of Adapters to standard sources of historical and real-time tick data. Conceived to specifically address the requirements of the financial sector, OneTick's architecture and extensive built-in domain expertise offers low integration and operation costs, and fast deployment. More information about OneMarketData is available at www.onetick.com.