With the exponential rise of electronic and automated trading around the world over the past thirty or so years, accurately predicting what the future holds might be akin to a futile exercise. But one thing is clear: the global trend towards machine-based trading is forcing many exchanges to upgrade their IT infrastructures and gateways, to handle booming trade and market data with increasingly lower latency. This article looks at the challenges the exchanges are facing with insight provided by Martin Zwick, Managing Director at Orc Software GmbH in Frankfurt.

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