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Instinet to take Asian dark-pool plunge
Dark pools, already a well-established facet of the buy-side trading landscape in the US, western European and Scandinavian markets, are primed to appear in Asia. Given the speed with which they became an integral part of the markets in which they…
Advent upgrades Geneva and APX applications
Advent Software has launched upgrades to its Geneva back-office platform and Advent Portfolio Exchange (APX), the San Francisco-based vendor's portfolio management product, as part of a year-long initiative to roll-out enhancements to its entire suite.
Omega Eyes Expansion with Atrium Link
Canadian alternative trading system Omega ATS is connecting to an "Exchange Ring" network of multiple Canadian trading venues provided by Atrium Network, to expand the ATS's potential client base of trading participants by making it easier for firms to…
Atrium Plans FX Fiber Ring
NEW YORK-As part of an ongoing project, network provider Atrium Network plans to finish the deployment of a network dedicated to foreign exchange (FX) connectivity by the end of the year, according to vendor officials.
Quod Prepares May Update for AEP
LONDON-Trading execution technologies provider Quod Financial will be launching an updated Version 5 of its Quod Financial Adaptive Execution (AEP) platform in May, say vendor officials.
SD Expands Exotic Options Pricing
Options pricing and risk management software vendor SuperDerivatives plans to add pricing capabilities for correlation swaps and additional deposit structures to its SD-FX currency derivatives pricing platform, to capitalize on increased appetite for…
DTN Upgrades ProphetX Display
Commodities and energy data provider Telvent DTN has released version 3.7 of its ProphetX data display workstation, featuring a range of new content and displays designed to make the system more configurable to individual users' needs.
Cervalis Taps HFN for Network Access
Co-location and hosting services vendor Cervalis is using Paramus, NJ-based network provider Hudson Fiber Network to provide connectivity to its new Passaic County, NJ facility, giving clients hosted there low-latency access to US exchanges via HFN's X…
Barchart Preps WebStation Revamp
Chicago-based data provider Barchart will this summer release a new version of its WebStation data workstation, which has been rewritten to bring it up-to-date with the latest Java technologies and enable it to process more data at faster speeds.
S&P Readies Risk-to-Price Credit Score
Standard & Poor's Valuation and Risk Strategies division is preparing to roll out a new Risk-to-Price (R2P) scoring mechanism, which quantifies how well investors are compensated for their willingness to take on risk, to provide a more predictive and…
Thomson Reuters Bolsters CreditViews Service
Thomson Reuters has added new data and analytics to the CreditViews credit data offering within its flagship 3000 Xtra data terminal, including credit derivatives liquidity scores from Fitch Solutions, credit-related corporate actions data from London…
Interactive Data Unit Adds New Content
Interactive Data's Managed Solutions division, which provides data displays and content delivery services for Web-based applications and financial portals, has rolled out a range of new content, including a multi-year tick history database and Dow Jones'…
Trading Firms Zero in on Nanoseconds
BARCELONA-The time it takes a beam of light to travel approximately 30 centimeters in a vacuum-one billionth of a second-will be the new performance benchmark for electronic traders, according to industry insiders who participated in a panel discussion…