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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…
OptionsXpress Bows Activ Hardware Ticker
Online derivatives broker OptionsXpress is rolling out Chicago-based low-latency data provider Activ Financial's MPU (Market Data Processing Unit) hardware-accelerated ticker plant to support low-latency and high-throughput processing of incoming market…
Progress Releases Single-Bank Portal FX Adapters
NEW YORK-Complex event processing (CEP) platform provider Progress Apama has expanded its presence in the foreign exchange (FX) market with the introduction of a suite of single-bank portal adapters for its Apama Capital Markets Framework, which are…
SunGard Launches Post-Trade Derivatives Link
NEW YORK-In an attempt to standardize communications between buy-side and sell-side traders of listed derivatives, SunGard rolled out today, May 3, its post-trade communications platform, dubbed Cliq.
Nasdaq OMX Shutters Neuro, Turns to Equiduct
LONDON-An overcrowded and competitive European market has led Nasdaq OMX to announce the planned closure of its Nasdaq OMX Europe multilateral trading facility (MTF), dubbed Neuro, on May 21.
Capital IQ Steps Up Global Content, Infrastructure
Standard and Poor's Capital IQ subsidiary has integrated new data and features into the latest release of its data display desktop platform, and is upgrading its back-end infrastructure to support a growing global client base.
eSignal, Morningstar Grow Mobile Apps
Interactive Data's eSignal unit has released versions of its QuoTrek mobile data application for Apple's iPhone and iPad, while Chicago-based investment research and data provider Morningstar has launched a BlackBerry app as both vendors seek to round…
Hedgehogs Curls Up With MoneyScience
UK-based private equity firm Thematic Capital, which owns hedge fund information and networking community portal Hedgehogs.net, has acquired a majority stake in MoneyScience, a niche information portal that aggregates content for quantitative investors…
RTS Eyes Broader Base for Russian Data
The RTS (Russian Trading System) Stock Exchange introduced a new commercial policy in April to provide discounts for retail investors subscribing to the exchange's real-time data, in a bid to broaden its customer base.
ICE Preps Low-Bandwidth TCP Datafeed
The IntercontinentalExchange has begun testing a new version of its TCP transport protocol-based Impact datafeed that delivers snapshots of market data, with prices netted at regular intervals and provided in batch updates, officials tell Inside Market…
RNA Preps Analysis Memory Cloud
Virtual network provider RNA Networks is preparing to release version 2.5 of its RNA MVX virtual memory cloud, which will increase the performance of data-intensive applications by using memory from other servers in the same datacenter.
BT Boosts Ultra, Expands Datacenters
Network and hosting provider BT is rolling out updated technology that will reduce the latency taken to upload data from marketplaces onto its low-latency Radianz Ultra Access network and to trading firms connected to the network.
Apama Unveils Single-Bank Adapters
Progress Apama is rolling out a series of data adapters for connectivity to single-dealer electronic foreign exchange trading platforms, to allow clients to create consolidated order books of FX prices from different venues, for use in display…
Kohler Quits Icap to Head CMA
Antoine Kohler, head of information services at Icap, is leaving the interdealer broker to become chief executive of London-based derivatives data vendor Credit Market Analysis.
CME Taps Xignite for On-Demand OTC Data
CME Group is readying a Web-services platform for on-demand access to prices and other content on over-the-counter asset classes cleared via its ClearPort system, using technology from on-demand data provider Xignite.
BM&FBovespa Girds for HFT Growth
NEW YORK-Looking to attract more high-frequency traders, Brazilian exchange BM&FBovespa plans to deploy a co-location offering for equities trading similar to what it currently offers to derivatives traders in its São Paulo facilities, pending regulatory…
BOX Sets For May Switchover
NEW YORK-Operators of the Boston Options Exchange (BOX), expect to take the exchange's new operations platform-consisting of its matching engine that is housed in the Equinix NY4 International Business Exchange (IBX) datacenter located in Secaucus, N.J…
Industry Calls for Exchange-Based Risk Management Tools
NEW YORK-Early last week, the Market Access Working Group of the Futures Industry Association (FIA)-the U.S.-based trade association for the futures and options industry-released its recommendations on managing direct access trading risk, which primarily…
CEP Moves Beyond Algos
LONDON-Over the last year spending on complex event processing (CEP) has been on the rise within the capital markets, concludes the author of a report from industry analyst firm Ovum, to be released on June 18, officials inform DWT .
