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Brenda Hoffman
Group Head of Information Technology
TMX Group
Last year: 20
The successful launch of the world-beating, high-speed trading engine TMX Quantum XA was a crowning achievement for TMX Group and won for its group head of information technology, Brenda Hoffman, the 2014 Chief Information Officer of the Year award from the Information Technology Association of Canada. Quantum XA has reduced trade times from 2,000 microseconds to 25 on the Toronto Stock Exchange, TSX Venture Exchange and Alpha Exchange. That is 20 times faster than the previous system, on a “hardware footprint” that is less than half the size. “We did all this while maintaining 100 percent availability in the markets,” boasts Hoffman, 50, who joined the TMX flagship TSE in 2001 after working on global exchange projects for Canadian consulting firm TIL Systems and IBM Global Services. “Getting the platforms that need to be ultralow latency — that job is done,” she says. She notes that TSX is streamlining its market structure in other ways, having applied to regulators for permission to close TMX Select — the alternative venue that was the first to test Quantum XA, in 2013. There are also plans to apply the equity-trading technology to options and derivatives as well as to TMX’s data- and message-distributing ticker plant. Next on Hoffman’s development agenda: risk management and big data.
See also Hoffman's profile in the 2013 Trading Technology 40.
The 2015 Trading Technology 40
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Kevin Kometer
CME Group Richard Prager
BlackRock Raymond Tierney III
Bloomberg Tradebook Jonathan Ross
KCG Holdings Charles Vice
Intercontinental Exchange 6
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Chris Isaacson
BATS Global Markets Bradley Peterson
Nasdaq OMX Group Brad Levy
MarkitSERV Dan Keegan
Citi Ronald DePoalo
Fidelity Institutional 11
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Gerard Beatty
Goldman Sachs Group Gerald O'Connell
CBOE Holdings Brenda Hoffman
TMX Group Billy Hult
Tradeweb Markets Nicholas Themelis
MarketAxess Holdings 16
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Bina Kalola
Bank of America Merrill Lynch Gil Mandelzis
EBS-BrokerTec (ICAP) Steven Randich
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Jerry Dobner
GFI Group Michael Liberman
BlueMountain Capital Management 21
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Bill Chow and Richard Leung
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Jamie Selway
Investment Technology Group Brad Katsuyama
IEX Group John Mackay (Mack) Gill
MillenniumIT Jamil Nazarali
Citadel Execution Services 26
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Robert Cornish
International Securities Exchange Tyler Moeller andJoshua Walksy
Broadway Technology Rishi Nangalia
REDI Holdings Manoj Narang
Tradeworx,
Thesys Technologies Oki Matsumoto
Monex Group 31
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Alasdair Haynes
Aquis Exchange Veronica Augustsson
Cinnober Financial Technology Stu Taylor
Algomi Luís Otávio Saliba Furtado
BM&FBovespa Tal Cohen
Chi-X Global Holdings 36
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Donal Byrne
Corvil R. Cromwell Coulson
OTC Markets Group Alfred Eskandar
Portware Richard Korhammer
SR Labs Hazem Dawani
OptionsCity Software