CSFB Shifts London FI to 3000 Xtra
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Swiss investment bank Credit Suisse First Boston last month completed a rollout of Reuters’ flagship data product 3000 Xtra to its fixed income trading floor in London, say sources close to the project.
The bank has installed 600 positions of 3000 Xtra running on Reuters’ TIB data distribution platform, replacing Reuters’ legacy Tibco-based data display product Marketsheet for Windows, says Steve Johnson, account manger at London-based IT consultancy Pegasus Data Services, which was engaged to
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