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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 .
OSI Spend Higher than Expected
Lessons Learnt to Prepare Firms for Cost-Basis Reporting Project