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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…
Kondor+ Update Set for 2010
LONDON-Market data and trading platform provider Thomson Reuters plans to release version 3.2 of its trade capture and risk management platform Kondor+ sometime during the first quarter of 2010, DWT has learned.
LSE Enlists QuantHouse as Co-Lo Data Partner
The London Stock Exchange will this week begin providing firms that co-locate their trading technology at the exchange's datacenter with access to direct feeds of market data from external exchanges and multilateral trading facilities, sourced via a…
MarketAxess to Debut Click-to-Trade
LONDON-Electronic fixed-income trading platform provider MarketAxess Europe is rolling out click-to-trade (CTT) functionality to version 6.5 of its MarketAxess trading platform, which should be available to European clients beginning Nov. 23, DWT has…
Eurex Introduces Latency League Tables
European derivatives exchange Eurex has begun providing latency statistics to its member trading firms, to give them more transparency into data distribution latency from the exchange, and to offer a better insight into how each firm is performing…
Agency Consortium Backs New Crossing Network
NEW YORK-In an attempt to give its members better control over block order trading flow, agency brokerage cooperative Mahogany Partners has announced a technology alliance with ConvergEx to deliver a multi-crossing network front end to its partners…
NYSE Tech Builds Asia Development Team
The Asia-Pacific business of NYSE Technologies, the data and trading technology arm of NYSE Euronext, is setting up a development team in Singapore to provide dedicated local development and support resources to serve clients throughout the region.
London Stock Exchange Expands Hosted Offering
LONDON-Operators of the London Stock Exchange (LSE) have opened a dedicated floor within the LSE's datacenter for client hosting, exchange officials tell DWT .
NYSE Technologies Grows Asia Presence
SINGAPORE-The Asia-Pacific business of NYSE Technologies, the data and trading technology arm of NYSE Euronext, is setting up a development team in Singapore to provide dedicated local development and support resources to serve clients throughout the…
Exegy Resumes MarketDataPeaks with Essex Radez
St. Louis, Mo.-based hardware ticker plant provider Exegy has resurrected its MarketDataPeaks.com Web site, which provides statistics on peak market data volumes, after enlisting Chicago-based market maker and data provider Essex Radez to supply exchange…
NYSE Technologies Grows Asia Data
NYSE Technologies is expanding its coverage of market data from Asian exchanges with an expanded range of feed handlers, and the rollout of its SuperFeed hosted ticker plant in the region, officials tell Inside Market Data .
Tradition Adds Yen Products to DataScope
Interdealer broker Tradition has expanded the range of content that it distributes via Thomson Reuters' DataScope product, by adding prices for Japanese yen-denominated financial products brokered by its Japanese subsidiary Meitan Tradition, officials…
Wind Info Wraps Global Macro Data
Chinese data vendor Wind Information is making the final additions to the global macroeconomic data module of its Wind Economic Database, launched last year, to complement the database's existing modules for Chinese macroeconomic data and Chinese…
Roberts Group Unveils Data Management Dashboard
Market data inventory and cost management service provider The Roberts Group has rolled out a new release of its Financial Information Tracking System (FITS), with new features that provide greater transparency into data spend and more tools to automate…
Equinix Builds Asian Financial Sales
Datacenter hosting and co-location provider Equinix has created a dedicated financial services sales team for its operations in Asia Pacific, to provide more focused service for its clients in the region and abroad.
Pink OTC Markets Readies New Data Repository
New York-based Pink OTC Markets, operator of the Pink Sheets and OTCQX over-the-counter equity markets, is preparing to migrate storage of its quote data to a new data warehouse that the group has already rolled out for some of its market and reference…