Milestones
- May 2022 – TraderServe release V11.0 including test schedule customisable templates and enhanced disorder provocation measures for arbitrage and semi-arbitrage trading
- September 2021 (London) – TraderServe announce v10.0 of AlgoGuard including ultra-low latency capability and increased capacity
- 2020 – TraderServe launch BestExGuard, its Algo Best Execution testing suite.
- 2019 – TraderServe announce V8.0 of AlgoGuard with customisation capability for highly complex multi-asset class ecosystems.
- 2018 – TraderServe adds customised binary compatible order entry gateways to AlgoGuard Connect for clients.
- 2017 – TraderServe release AlgoGuard Cloud & AlgoGuard Hosted as low cost options for investment firms to meet the MiFID II compliance deadline. For more complex requirements AlgoGuard Enterprise is available.
- 2016 – TraderServe & SQS the world’s leading specialist in software quality announce partnership to roll out fully documented AlgoGuard non-live testing consultancy to investment firms and trading venues.
- 2015 – TraderServe & Colt announce partnership to deliver AlgoGuard to investment firms and AlgoGuard Arena to trading venues. AlgoGuard is the third generation of TraderServe’s Algorithmic Stability Testing technology with pass/fail testing of propensity of tested algorithms to cause or contribute to disorderly trading.
- 2013 – TraderServe develops working prototype of FPGA-based TS-Watermark data watermarking product.
- 2012 – TraderServe deploys TS-Arena at major exchange.
- 2011 – TraderServe release version 2.0 of the TraderServe Tickmetrics Data Quality Platform.
- 2010 – TraderServe release version 7.0 of the TraderServe Algorithmic Trading Platform.
- 2009 – TraderServe develop new real-time data quality management tools.
- 2008 – TraderServe implement Smart Order Routing product Range.
- 2007 – The management team buys out the venture capital partners. Development of the ultra-low latency platform and associated services.
- 2006 – TraderServe introduces innovative transaction cost analysis service to accompany the platform and develops a range of products for MiFID
- 2005 – Independent distributed pre-trade risk management added
- 2004 – Trade Controller implemented with automated order state management to manage many thousands of order slices simultaneously in multiple markets
- 2003 – Pioneering Flow Manager and graphical Model Building Interface developed.
- Publication of major TraderServe report on Technological Barriers to Pan-European Best Execution in Equities “Breaking the Barriers”.
- 2001 – ATP, with added client management system and web front end goes live at first broker.
- 2000 – The core ATP platform is spun off into a new company, TraderServe, which raises £1.35m venture capital.
- 1997 – Quantics fund launches and short-term trading starts in financial futures and US equities.
- 1996 – Nick Idelson and Nicholas Hallam form Quantics Limited as a joint venture with the largest foreign exchange fund manager in Europe.
- New platform ‐ the core of the current ATP ‐ is built.
- 1990 – Deployment of distributed real-time environment across 85 processors, including the largest on-line tick database in the world at the time.
- Nicholas Hallam appointed Chief Model Builder for black box team
- 1988 – Nick Idelson founds Midland Montagu black box team. Nicholas Hallam joins Nick Idelson to work on real-time logic modelling.
- 1986 – Nick Idelson starts development on real-time automated trading environment at Midland Bank.
- 1980-82 – Nick Idelson develops daily trading models for commodity brokers and S class companies.
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