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BATS Extends Savvis Hosting Deal
BATS Global Markets, the parent company of the BATS Exchange and BATS Europe trading platforms, will this week announce a multi-year deal with network and hosting provider Savvis to expand its datacenter in the vendor's hosting facilities in Weehawken,…
Industry: IoIs Down but Not Out
NEW YORK-Although the tempest over flash orders led Nasdaq OMX and Bats Exchange to discontinue their use, market participants are continuing to use indications of interest (IoIs) to place orders, in an effort to protect the interests of their end users…
Cloud Computing: The Future, Delayed
LONDON-Cloud computing is unavoidable at present-consumer-grade offerings have already hit the market, universities and city governments are using a number of cloud-based applications, while software vendors and cloud service providers are touting its…
Oslo Børs Diversifies Clearing Offering
OSLO-Norwegian exchange operator Oslo Børs has recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Oslo Clearing, its existing clearing partner, and LCH.Clearnet to offer exchange members a choice of central counterparty (CCP) clearinghouses.
Brokers Seek Clearing Transparency
LONDON-Price transparency isn't just a front-office concern for brokers as many are seeking better transparency from European exchanges about clearing and settlement tariffs so that firms can calculate fees as a proportion of value traded.
SEC Set to Rein in Dark Liquidity
WASHINGTON, D.C.-In a unanimous vote by the commissioners of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) last week, the U.S. regulatory body adopted three recommendations put forth by its Division of Trading and Markets to better regulate dark…
Robeco Targets Cuts to Data Spend in 2010
Dutch asset manager Robeco has embarked on a series of initiatives designed to reduce its annual data spend by up to 15 percent over the course of the next year, officials say.
Micex FIX Feed Broadens Vendor Partners
The Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange has signed and expanded data redistribution partnerships with a trio of third-party vendors as the result of launching a new datafeed based on the industry standard FIX and FAST protocols, officials say.
Lime Certifies Open-Source OMS
NEW YORK-Traders seeking to execute on agency broker Lime Brokerage's low-latency trading systems can do so via an open-source offering, as the firm recently certified the Automated Trading Platform (ATP) from open-source order management system (OMS)…
Trayport Targets Smaller Firms with Pre-Trade Risk
LONDON-Commodities trading system provider Trayport plans to lower the barrier of entry for proprietary trading houses and hedge funds to participate in the energy markets with a pre-trade risk offering to be launched in about 12 months, according to…
Equinix Eyes US Growth with $689M S&D Buy
Datacenter and hosting services provider Equinix plans to enable its clients to connect to more markets in North America and to offer more datacenter space in locations where demand is high, via additional facilities acquired through the purchase of…
Townsend Rolls Out Trading API Update
CHICAGO-Multi-asset trading platform provider Townsend Analytics recently debuted the version 3.0 of its RealTick application programming interface (API), which sports a new QuickStart application that simplifies code development and expanded…
Bats Readies Global Datacenter Upgrade
KANSAS CITY, MO.-In preparation for the launch of the a second protected cash equities quote and a new options exchange in the U.S. market, exchange and multilateral trading facility (MTF) operator Bats Trading has leased a significant amount of new…
Chi-X Adds Hosted Risk Management to Co-Lo Services
London-based multilateral trading facility Chi-X Europe has launched a new, co-located risk management service, dubbed Chi-Velocity, which enables prime brokerage arms of member trading firms to manage risk taken on by offering sponsored direct market…
CarryQuote Adds Italy Data, Sales Partner
Zug, Switzerland-based desktop and mobile data vendor CarryQuote has expanded its data coverage with market data from the London Stock Exchange's Italian subsidiary Borsa Italiana, and has enlisted a sales partner in Italy as part of an ongoing effort to…
Capstone GM to Expand Fidessa Rollout
New York-based broker-dealer Capstone Global Markets is planning to expand its rollout of data via Fidessa's hosted trading platform to its European operations, after recently deploying the platform across its US base, to support its quantitative…
7Ticks Deploys Correlix for Latency Monitoring
Chicago-based managed services provider 7Ticks is rolling out New York-based latency monitoring technology vendor Correlix's Latency Intelligence suite to support internal monitoring and performance analysis across its infrastructure.
SR Labs Allies With Options IT for Hosted Feed Handler
New York-based low-latency co-location technology vendor SR Labs has partnered with infrastructure-as-a-service provider Options IT to launch a fully managed feed-handler component in Options IT's Options Pipe direct feed and infrastructure management…
Thomson Reuters Boosts Direct Asia Data
Thomson Reuters has added new market venues to its low-latency Reuters Data Feed Direct (RDF-D) managed feed service, bringing the total number of markets supported by RDF-D in the Asia-Pacific region to more than 20, officials tell Inside Market Data .
Uniloc Delivers System Fingerprint
IRVINE, CALIF.-Officials from network security vendor Uniloc announced today, Oct. 19, the general availability of its WebAnchor security platform, which establishes unique identifiers for edge systems connecting to secure networks.
PrismTech, CSI Prep Open-Source Trading Infrastructure
Boston-based integration software and middleware vendor PrismTech will next year combine its OpenSplice DDS (Data Distribution Service) middleware platform with the Open Market Data (OMD) architecture from Portland, OR-based data technology provider…