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Everything Old Is New Again—Maybe

Will cash equities market-makers make a comeback in 2012?

Sell-Side Technology | Opinion | Exchanges | 13 Jan 2012

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The Return of the Market-Maker

Since the adoption of Regulation NMS in 2007, market-makers in the US cash equities market have gone the way of the green screen—until now.

Sell-Side Technology | Analysis | Exchanges | 09 Jan 2012

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ISE Taps Exegy for Feeds, BBO Calculation

The International Securities Exchange is completing the final stages of deploying a ticker plant from St. Louis, Mo.-based hardware ticker plant provider Exegy, to speed up the exchange’s processing of incoming datafeeds from other marketplaces that...

Inside Market Data | News | Exchange Data | 12 Dec 2011

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Opening Cross: Two Trends to Give Thanks For

The annual US Thanksgiving holiday originated from the first festival held on US soil by the pilgrim settlers to celebrate a good harvest after local Native American tribes provided the settlers with domestic seeds and taught them new skills to get the...

Inside Market Data | Opinion | Content Focus | 28 Nov 2011

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Direct Edge to Launch Brazilian Exchange

BM&FBovespa dominates the Brazilian trading landscape, and now it faces a new competitor in Jersey City, NJ-based stock exchange Direct Edge, which announced plans to launch an electronic-trading equity platform in Brazil. Direct Edge Brazil is aiming...

Sell-Side Technology | News | Exchanges | 22 Nov 2011

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Direct Edge Employs Greenline for Multi-Protocol Test Automation

Jersey City, NJ-based stock exchange Direct Edge has inked a deal with Greenline Financial Technologies, a provider of electronic trading marketplace solutions, for multi-protocol test automation. Direct Edge deployed Greenline's VeriFIX, which supports...

Sell-Side Technology | News | Exchange Technologies | 31 Oct 2011

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Direct Edge Settles with SEC

Direct Edge says it has improved its procedures around systems development and maintenance and taken other steps to prevent a repeat of an incident in April when a database administrator error left iit unable to process orders, modifications and cancellations,...

Inside Market Data | News | Regulation & Standards | 17 Oct 2011

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SEC Sanctions Direct Edge Over Internal Controls

Without admitting or denying findings by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), exchange operator Direct Edge has agreed to undertake remedial measures to improve its internal controls, which previously led to millions of dollars in trading...

Sell-Side Technology | News | Compliance | 14 Oct 2011

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Opening Cross: Can Cloud Deliver Rays of Insight from Murky Data?

Last week, we found ourselves inundated with vendors wanting to share news of new developments and client wins, ahead of this week’s World Financial Information Conference in San Francisco and the FIA show in Chicago, as companies time their announcements...

Inside Market Data | Opinion | Newswires | 10 Oct 2011

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Direct Edge, Xignite Prep Cloud Data History

Jersey City-based stock exchange Direct Edge has enlisted Web services data provider Xignite to build an on-demand platform, dubbed EdgeBook Cloud, for trading firms to access the exchange’s historical quote and trade data. Kevin Carrai, head of member...

Inside Market Data | News | Exchange Data | 10 Oct 2011

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