AQR Capital Management Selects Exegy For Low-Latency Market Data

AQR Capital Management, a global investment-management firm with over $70 billion under management*, has selected Exegy to deliver low-latency market data to their trading and research systems. The deal includes new deployments of Exegy’s hardware-accelerated appliances to process foreign exchange, equity and futures market data in co-location datacenters initially in North America.

Exegy has aggressively expanded its coverage of foreign exchange data sources to include broadcast ECN feeds, direct bank connections, and consolidated sources. This expansion builds on the existing portfolio of more than 200 direct and consolidated sources for equities, futures, and options supported by the Exegy Ticker Plant and Exegy Enterprise Market Data System.

“We found Exegy to be a best-in-class solution for our low latency market data needs,” said Brian Hurst, Principal at AQR Capital Management. “The fact that they are able to deliver market data very quickly to our trading and research systems enables us to further improve our trade execution, reducing market impact and improving returns for our investors. Exegy offers solid value and quality service for firms that place an emphasis on superior trade execution capabilities.”

Jeff Britt, Executive VP of Sales for Exegy, added: “We see a large community in the marketplace looking for a fully normalized, fully managed solution with the asset class coverage and scalability that their business requires. The total-cost of ownership (TCO) advantages of our proven product and service have been very attractive to that community.”

The announcement comes on the heels of a large international bank replacing existing market data distribution systems from an established technology vendor with Exegy’s Enterprise Market Data Systems.