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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…
Interactive Data Buyout Drives IT Integration
Interactive Data plans to accelerate a project to adopt a common technology platform for supporting the storage and distribution of its data products and services, following the vendor's acquisition last week by private equity firms Silver Lake and…
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.
Fixnetix Launches FX Data Connectivity
UK-based low-latency data and trading technology vendor Fixnetix has rolled out a package of data and connectivity services for the foreign exchange markets, aimed at FX traders and market makers, as well as high-frequency trading firms trading FX as…
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…
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…