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OptionsCity Launches Freeway Analytics Trading-Simulation Platform
Electronic options trading technology vendor OptionsCity Software has launched Freeway Analytics, a visualization engine and an exchange simulator based on sub-millisecond futures market data.
SuperDerivatives Debuts DGX Direct Feed
Derivatives pricing, data and risk management software vendor SuperDerivatives is launching a new real-time data feed dubbed DGX Direct, in response to demand from customers for the ability to stream the range of cash and derivatives market data…
Nice Actimize Launches Benchmark Monitoring Product
Nice Actimize has announced the debut of its Actimize Benchmark Monitoring Solution, designed to aid in the surveillance and monitoring of processes related to rate submissions such as the London Interbank Offered Rate (Libor).
UK Competition Body Clears EuroCCP, EMCF Merger
The UK Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has given a green light to the proposed merger between EuroCCP and EMCF, allowing the two firms to proceed to the next stage in their combination.
Post-Zeptonics Lawsuit, Zomojo Spins Off Exablaze, Releases Sub-Microsecond NIC
Australian technology provider Exablaze, a spin-off from high-frequency trading firm Zomojo, has built and released an ultra-low-latency network interface card that officials say can distribute market data within an organization with less than a…
Napier Park Achieves Citi Spinoff, Volcker Compliance with Sky Road
Napier Park, a $6.7 billion credit and fixed-income fund formerly known as Citigroup Capital Advisors (CCA), has tapped Sky Road, a Chicago-based managed services provider to the buy side, to help transition its trading application infrastructure into…
TMX Links to K13 Moscow Datacenter
TMX Atrium, the network subsidiary of Canadian exchange group TMX has added a connectivity point on its network to the Kislovsky 13 (K13) datacenter in Moscow.
Markit's Johnson Explains Collaboration Services
Heidi Johnson, managing director of Markit Collaboration Services and Markit Library talks to Inside Market Data at FISD's recent World Financial Information Conference in Lisbon about the vendor's new chat initiative which seeks to bring open…
Deutsche Börse Opens Data-Trading Simulation Cloud
Deutsche Börse's Market Data and Services division has unveiled a cloud-based market simulation environment for trading firms to develop and test applications designed to work with its Eurex derivatives market's T7 trading architecture-which is designed…
China Securities Deploys Fidessa Asian Trading Platform
Investment bank China Securities (International) has selected Fidessa’s Asian trading platform to operate on its first subsidiary outside mainland China.
Xenomorph Builds Connector to Add S&P CapIQ Data to TimeScape
Data management technology provider Xenomorph has built a connector between its TimeScape database and analytics platform and S&P Capital IQ’s Enterprise Data Solutions services, to provide mutual clients with out-of-the-box access to the vendor’s…
First Metro Securities Connects to SunGard Global Network
First Metro Securities Brokerage, part of the Metrobank Group, has connected to the SunGard Global Network (SGN), linking to more than 2,500 buy-side and sell-side firms and about 150 trading venues around the world.
TMX Atrium Connects to Moscow Exchange
The Moscow Exchange, the entity formed following the 2011 merger of the RTS Exchange and the Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange, has joined the network of TMX Atrium, the network subsidiary of Canadian exchange group TMX, to provide companies connected…
Aquis, IEX Alternative Venues Join IPC’s Connexus Network
European multilateral trading facility Aquis Exchange and New York-based alternative trading system IEX Group, a buy side-owned dark pool targeting broker-dealers, have both selected network and trading turret provider IPC’s Connexus financial extranet…
Nasdaq Hikes Basic, GIDS, Level 2 Fees
Nasdaq OMX has notified clients of a wave of fee increases impacting its Nasdaq Basic feed of real-time best-bid-and-offer and last-sale data for US equities, its Global Index data service and its Level 2 data feeds, to mitigate the costs associated with…
Perseus, ITRS Ally for Latency Monitoring
New York-based low-latency network provider Perseus Telecom has launched a new real-time latency monitoring application in partnership with UK-based systems and latency monitoring technology vendor ITRS, dubbed PrecisionView, to provide customers with…
LSE Hits Users with Fee Double-Whammy
The London Stock Exchange has notified customers of a planned 2.5 percent increase in fees for a broad range of its market data services, covering the majority of its redistribution licenses, professional user fees, and non-display and application usage…
The American Financial Technology Awards Nominations Deadline Approaches
The American Financial Technology Awards (AFTAs) submissions deadline is Oct. 25, and that date won't be extended.
The American Financial Technology Awards Nominations Deadline Approaches
The American Financial Technology Awards (AFTAs) submissions deadline is Oct. 25, and that date won't be extended.
SIX Financial Information ‘Sharpens' US Sales with Brinker, Brodhead
SIX Financial Information, the data vendor business of Swiss exchange and clearing parent organization SIX Group, has reorganized its US sales function with the appointments of a new senior sales manager and a new head of solutions sales to replace…
SIX Welcomes New Senior US Sales Execs
Warren Brinker joins as senior sales manager and Keith Brodhead joins as head of solutions sales at SIX Financial Information
IDC's Sargeant Reflects on WFIC Future Industry Trends Panel
Roger Sargeant, managing director for Europe at Interactive Data discusses the future of technology and market data, following a panel discussion at the World Financial Information Conference in Lisbon.
ITG Inks TwoFour Deal
Agency broker ITG has licensed TwoFour FX to help manage its foreign exchange (FX) operations.