The Informatics of the Equity Markets - A Collaborative Approach

This paper aims to provide a high-level overview upon the information technology that sup-ports the electronic transactions performed on the equity markets. It is meant to offer a suc-cinct introduction to the various technologies tailored to tackle the data transfer between the participants on an equity market, the architectural approaches regarding trading system de-sign, and the communication in a collaborative distributed computing environment. Our in-tention here is not to provide solutions, or to propose definitive designs, merely to scratch the surface of this vast domain, and open the path for subsequent researches