History & Philosophy

NovaSparks was founded in 2007 by Marc Battyani (CTO and Head of R&D) and Eric Le Rolland to deliver engineering excellence to the financial services community. From his extensive and illustrious career designing low latency solutions for the military and security industries, Marc Battyani realised the potential of bringing this highly-skilled approach to the latency sensitive international trading community.

The philosophy of NovaSparks is to offer a unique competitive edge to sell-side and buy-side firms that require ultra-low latency to power their algorithmic trading systems. 

NovaSparks believes that FPGA technology should not only provide the lowest latency possible, but also empower clients to use this technology internally for their own competitive benefit.

The use of NovaSparks’ 'No Latency™'  enabling appliances gives clients the opportunity to significantly improve the hit-rate of their algorithmic trading solutions and consequently drive their balance sheet and profitability.

Underlying our philosophy is the unending search to provide our clients with a distinct competitive advantage by delivering the fastest, most deterministic and scalable market solution in the world today. This ‘no-spin’ metric-based validation is confirmed by our clients own endorsement that NovaSparks is the only provider that guarantees ultra-low latency in a deterministic manner even during peak market bursts.