Articles by JP Carbonnier
Winterflood Deploys IFS BestEx Analytics
UK stockbroker Winterflood Securities has begun using the LiquidMetrix transaction cost analysis platform from London-based vendor Intelligent Financial Systems to benchmark the performance of its Winner electronic market making platform by comparing…
Savvis Deploys Corvil Appliances for Network Latency Monitoring
Network and hosting service provider Savvis is building out a global latency monitoring service to help clients monitor latencies for up to 20 different trading venues using hardware and software from Dublin-based latency monitoring technology vendor…
Panopticon Taps Progress, Sybase for Data Connectivity
Stockholm-based data visualization software vendor Panopticon has partnered with Sybase and Progress Software to broaden the range of real-time and historical data that it can display, and has developed an updated software development kit (SDK) that…
Algo Tech Readies VoR Feed Service
Algo Technologies, the data and trading technology vendor headed by former Chi-X Europe chief operating officer Hirander Misra, plans to establish itself as a vendor-of-record for data from exchanges and multilateral trading facilities, officials say.
Thomson Reuters Accelerates Tick Engine
Thomson Reuters has optimized its Tick Capture Engine (RTCE) to process greater volumes of tick data at higher speed for clients to back-test trading strategies when running on the latest Intel Xeon 7500 chips.
Arcontech Revs Excelerator Performance
Data technology vendor Arcontech is in the final stages of developing Version 3.0 of its Excelerator add-in for integrating real-time data into Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, after entering beta testing with bank and hedge fund clients earlier this month.
Quick Adds Multi-Asset Fixings to Icap Deal
Japanese market data vendor Quick has extended its partnership with interdealer broker Icap to include redistribution rights for the Icap FIX data service, which the broker launched at the end of last year to meet demand for its data services, driven by…
Robeco Cuts Costs with Infomatch ASP
Dutch asset manager Robeco has migrated to a hosted version of the Infomatch market data inventory management software from Dutch vendor Screen Consultants, in a bid to trim the firm's overall cost of supporting the software.
Credit Data Vendors Focus on Liquidity Metrics
Liquidity analytics are becoming increasingly important to the process of risk management and for understanding price formation in the credit markets, according to credit data providers with liquidity management tools.
Atrium Opens EU Access to Nasdaq US Feeds
London-based network connectivity provider Atrium Network has begun distributing direct feeds of US market data from Nasdaq OMX to clients across Europe and North America, who can access the data via any of the vendor's network points of presence (PoPs),…
Nasdaq OMX Delays Enhanced ITCH Switch
Nasdaq OMX has delayed plans to migrate its European markets to a consolidated feed based on a variant of its ITCH data distribution protocol, which was ultimately expected to replace its Genium Consolidated Feed of Nordic and Baltic data ( IMD , Dec. 14…
LSE to Launch ITCH Feed on Turquoise
European multilateral trading facility Turquoise, which was acquired by the London Stock Exchange earlier this year, plans to migrate to a new technology platform from fellow LSE subsidiary MillenniumIT a few weeks before the LSE migrates its main UK…
Quod Mulls Data Hardware Acceleration
Trading systems vendor Quod Financial plans to incorporate hardware-accelerated technologies from third-party providers into Version 5 of its Adaptive Execution Platform trading system, which is due for release in May of this year, to increase the…
Push Tech Readies Diffusion Update
UK-based Push Technology, a provider of streaming Web technology for market data distribution, has released a beta version of its Diffusion data platform, incorporating support for a broader range of distribution protocols to support more efficient data…
Nomura Shrinks Latency with ‘Westmere' Processor
LONDON-The U.K.-based algorithmic trading operations of Japanese investment bank Nomura has shaved latency off its order processing and trading applications by running them on the latest six-core Xeon 5600 Series from Intel, say bank officials.
Nomura Eyes Data Tech Latency Gains
The London-based algorithmic trading group of Japanese banking group Nomura is examining technology strategies for reducing market data and trading application latency, after successfully reducing order processing latency by up to 35 percent as a result…
Interactive Data Unit Adds New Content
Interactive Data's Managed Solutions division, which provides data displays and content delivery services for Web-based applications and financial portals, has rolled out a range of new content, including a multi-year tick history database and Dow Jones'…
Thomson Reuters Bolsters CreditViews Service
Thomson Reuters has added new data and analytics to the CreditViews credit data offering within its flagship 3000 Xtra data terminal, including credit derivatives liquidity scores from Fitch Solutions, credit-related corporate actions data from London…
LSE: Standalone Trade Data Key to EU Tape
The London Stock Exchange is to begin a consultation period with member firms to assess demand for a real-time feed of time-and-sales data via new subscription products, separate from its existing datafeeds, to help market participants create a…
Skyler Shifts Development Ops to London
Concord, Calif.-based tick database and data technology provider Skyler Technology is shifting its base of operations to London, including all of its software development and support functions, in a bid to reap cost benefits and to be closer to a major…
