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May 2010 - sponsored by: Interactive Data, NYSE Technologies, Savvis
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April 2009 - sponsored by: DTCC, Fidelity ActionsXchange, SIX Telekurs, Thomson Reuters
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Exegy, Solace Boost Data Distribution
St. Louis, Mo.-based Exegy is integrating its Total Connect ticker plant appliance with hardware-based middleware vendor Solace Systems' Message Router, to provide a hardware-accelerated, high-throughput and low-latency platform for enterprise-wide data…
SmartTrade Bows OTC Pricing Tool
French trading systems vendor SmartTrade will this week announce a new component to its liquidity management system for dealers to distribute customized prices on over-the-counter instruments to clients.
DirectFN Targets MidEast Institutional Data
Dubai-based data provider DirectFN is targeting institutional investors and trading firms with a new desktop data display and datafeeds, in a bid to expand its client base both within and beyond the region.
YCharts Embeds Charts in StockTwits
Chicago-based fundamental data analysis provider YCharts last week began providing users of StockTwits.com-an aggregator of stock-related "tweets" from traders and investors-with access to its fundamental metrics and charts.
AMQP 1.0 Nears Completion
LONDON-The council governing the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP), an open-source business messaging protocol, will vote to finalize version 1.0 of the protocol when they convene at an AMQP conference on June 8 in San Diego, Calif.
ITG Ventures into FX TCA
NEW YORK-Transaction cost analysis (TCA) provider and agency broker Investment Technology Group (ITG) has recently expanded its asset class coverage with the launch of its ITG TCA for FX, a post-trade analysis tool that ITG developed in conjunction with…
UNX Expands Execution Tools
NEW YORK-Trading platform and connectivity provider UNX has recently added the electronic trading services and equity trading algorithms from Knight Capital's Knight Direct trading system to its stable of trading tools available on its UNX Catalyst…
Equinix Takes NY4 Expansion Live
NEW YORK-Datacenter provider Equinix has opened the latest expansion of its NY4 International Business Exchange (IBX) datacenter, adding about 1,250 cabinet equivalents, in Secaucus, N.J., according to vendor officials.
Portware Revamp Targets Options Support
NEW YORK-As part of its version 5.0 release of its Portware Enterprise platform, execution management system (EMS) provider Portware tailored the latest update to sport greater support for options trading by re-engineering the platform's Portware Options…
Industry Girds for Mifid II
LONDON-The financial services industry is gearing up for the second version of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (Mifid), according to participants who spoke during a recent industry roundtable on the effects of Mifid, adding that they…
NYSE Floor Brokers Experience Handheld Outage
NEW YORK-Operators of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) are investigating the cause of an outage that disabled floor brokers' handheld order management systems (OMSes) for about two hours on the morning of May 5, and are trying to develop preventive…
Kiss Your Naked Access Goodbye
Listening to the talking heads on television, it seems as if the performance of the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) index last Thursday means the world is coming to an end. No, it's not. The national market structure has rules and procedures in place…
Bids Trading UI Gets Facelift
NEW YORK-Users of alternative trading system (ATS) Bids Trading's Bids Trader front end will see some major changes to the platform's user interface (UI) as the ATS operator rolls out its latest version, 6.22, of the trading platform.
Peresys Sets for EMS Update
JOHANNESBURG-FIX services and connectivity provider Peresys is currently developing a new front end for its browser-based PerFIX Trader execution management system (EMS), which is slated to launch in August, vendor officials tell DWT .
Thomson Reuters Readies ‘Insider' Info
Thomson Reuters will this week officially unveil its Reuters Insider multimedia platform, which will provide access to searchable video and text content from the vendor's proprietary news bureau, in addition to contributed content from more than 150…
Quod to Focus on Benchmarking Capabilities
NEW YORK-As part of the next release of its trading execution platform, QF Adaptive Execution Platform (AEP), which is expected to launch in several weeks, Quod Financial will add features to the existing statistical engine to provide post-trade…
Atrium Adds Nasdaq Stockholm PoP
Atrium Network has set up a Point of Presence (PoP) in the Stockholm-based datacenter where Nasdaq OMX offers co-located access to its Inet matching engine technology, to provide Atrium clients in London and Europe with low-latency access to the exchange…