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NYSE Euronext Finds ATS Buyer
NEW YORK-In a $5 million three-way deal expected to close by the end of the year, agency brokerage BNY ConvergEx will acquire alternative trading system (ATS) operator Nyfix's U.S.
UBS Streamlines Market Data Team
UBS has axed or reassigned roles for a number of long-serving market data executives as part of a broader move to streamline its market data sourcing, administration and technical operations, sources say.
Velocity Trade Readies API Connectivity
TORONTO-Canadian foreign exchange (FX) dealer Velocity Trade expects to take its first client live sometime this week, say officials, with an application programming interface (API) connection into the dealer's middle- and back-office systems, officials…
Exchange Glitches Fuel Data Debate
Two European exchange glitches last week intensified the debate over whether market participants should use consolidated feeds of European equity data, including data from multilateral trading facilities, as opposed to relying on data from primary…
BGC Hires Sybase for Database Support
NEW YORK-As part of a plan to adjust its internal IT systems, global inter-dealer broker BGC Partners tells DWT it has contracted database provider Sybase to support the firm's database in order to improve management of real-time risk.
Thomson Reuters Boosts FX Commentary
Thomson Reuters has hired six foreign exchange industry veterans to bolster its market commentary and analysis, as well as to support a new service, dubbed Dealing Room, which aims to provide FX traders with a steady stream of news and trade ideas.
Stock Exchange Outage Spurs MTF Changes
LONDON-As undisclosed server issues brought trading in one twelfth of the stocks traded on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) to a halt last week, the knock-on effect has led to changes in trading on multilateral trading facilities (MTFs), according to MTF…
StreamBase Boosts Canada Coverage
Complex event processing software vendor StreamBase Systems has developed an adapter to provide connectivity to market data feeds from Pure Trading, a Toronto-based alternative trading system operated by CNSX Markets, expanding the vendor's coverage of…
Icap FIXes on Thomson Reuters
Interdealer broker Icap has launched a new service, Icap FIX, which will deliver end-of-day and intra-day snapshot prices for a range of OTC-traded instruments via Thomson Reuters' Datascope data products and 3000 Xtra desktop data display.
Options IT Connects to OMX Feeds
New York-based infrastructure-as-a-service provider Options IT recently expanded its exchange coverage by adding Nasdaq OMX's Copenhagen, Iceland, Stockholm and Helsinki stock exchange feeds to its Velocity managed direct feeds service, to expand the…
Pure Trading Girds for High-Frequency Trading
TORONTO-Operators of the Pure Trading Canadian alternative trading system (ATS) are braced for an onslaught of high-frequency trades as a number of U.S. trading firms connect to the platform later this month.
Options IT Adds Nordic Support
NEW YORK-Infrastructure-as-a-service vendor Options IT has extended its Velocity high-speed market connectivity service to the Nasdaq OMX Nordic Exchanges, officials announced today, Nov. 9.
Polygon Begins EquityPipe Campaign
New York-based research provider Polygon Research has begun marketing a front-end workstation to its clients via its broker-dealer business Kabrik Trading, after testing the product on its equity broker desk over the summer.
Townsend Preps Ticker Plant Refresh in Volume Battle
Chicago-based data and trading technology vendor Townsend Analytics is rolling out a new component within its market data infrastructure to enable the vendor to deal with ever-growing market data rates, as part of a long-term plan to re-architect its…
Fixnetix Expands Corvil Deal for Client Latency Visibility
Low-latency data and trading technology vendor Fixnetix has licensed the CorvilClear peer-to-peer latency monitoring software from Dublin-based vendor Corvil to provide its clients with better visibility into the latency of market data delivery and order…
Regulatory Concerns Stall Clearinghouse Links
LONDON-Independent global clearinghouse LCH.Clearnet has suspended discussion on bilateral clearinghouse interoperability with European Multilateral Clearing Facility (EMCF) due to concerns of regulators in the U.K. and Holland over the potential…
FX Connect Looks to Executable Pricing
NEW YORK-FX Connect will launch executable streaming prices on the platform in the first quarter of next year, among other upgrades being made to the system.
Panel: HFT, Dark Pools Not Synonymous
NEW YORK-As the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) examines market structure with an eye toward new rules for the markets, it is likely to find that high-frequency trading accounts for very little of the activity in dark pools of liquidity,…
Tradeware Banks on FIX for the Future
NEW YORK-As trade orders continue to be sliced and diced into ever smaller and more numerous orders, electronic global equity market access provider Tradeware Global sees the FIX messaging protocol as key to future growth, say vendor officials.
OS Switch Nets Hotspot FX Performance Gain
NEW YORK-As part of a project to bring Hotspot FX's architecture in line with its other trading and matching platform, Knight Capital Group has moved the electronic foreign exchange (FX) trading platform to a Linux platform from a Microsoft Windows…