SunGard today announced that it has taken its Front Arena FIX engine to the next level of high performance and low latency in partnership with Pantor. SunGard will incorporate Pantor's FAST Virtual Machine (FVM) into its Front Arena trading solution. Read more

Pantor takes FAST performance to the next level to handle environments with extreme bursts of data. We believe that it is increasingly important to handle peaks as measured in fractions of a second without incurring latency. Pantor Presto, our second generation implementation encodes FAST more than ten times faster than the original FAST proof of concept code using benchmark data from the OPRA, the major feed for US equity options, and NYSE Arca™ market data feeds. Read more