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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…
LSE Glitch Confirms Primary Data Dependence
A technical glitch on the London Stock Exchange last week resulted in a brief market data outage and suspension of trading in six large-cap FTSE 100 stocks and a further 10 mid- and small-cap stocks, sources tell Inside Market Data .
CodeStreet Seeks Investor 'Consortium'
New York-based data technology provider CodeStreet is seeking more equity partners to drive its product and asset class expansion, following the sale of an undisclosed equity stake in the business to fixed income broker-dealer RW Pressprich last week.
McCormick to Lead Boston Options Exchange
CHICAGO-Operators of the Boston Options Exchange (BOX) announced that they have named Tony McCormick the exchange's CEO, effective last week.
Nomura Taps Caplin Xaqua for FX Portal
The European operation of Japanese bank Nomura has rolled out a new messaging middleware platform from UK-based data technology and trading software vendor Caplin Systems, to support the bank's recently launched single-dealer foreign exchange trading…
Rapid Addition FIX Engine Targets Garbage Collection
LONDON-Users of FIX messaging platform provider Rapid Addition's RA Cheetah FIX engine and RA Quantum FIX Adapted for Streaming (FAST) gateway should see a performance improvement as the vendor rolls out new memory management techniques, which eliminate…
Fixnetix Buys MST for Next-Gen Platform
UK-based low-latency data infrastructure and trading technology vendor Fixnetix has bought Boston-based feed handler and ticker plant provider Market Systems Technology, to provide the basis of Fixnetix's next-generation distributed market data platform.
Nomura Deploys Xaqua as Single-Dealer Front End
LONDON-After initial conversations that took place in early summer, global investment bank Nomura went live last week with a Web-based single-dealer front end from Caplin Systems for the bank's cash foreign exchange (FX) business, officials announced…
Kairos Bows StreamBase for Algo Data
Brazilian hedge fund Kairos Asset Management has begun rolling out a new algorithmic trading system based on technology from complex event processing software vendor StreamBase Systems, to enable the firm to maintain a trading advantage in the face of…
Chi-X Debuts Sponsored DMA Access
LONDON-To better cater to high-frequency traders, officials from pan-European equity multilateral trading facility (MTF) Chi-X Europe announced today, Oct. 19, the rollout of Chi-Velocity, a proximity-hosted risk management offering for sponsored direct…
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Fitch Bows Standardized Delivery
Fitch Solutions, the technology and content arm of ratings agency Fitch, will this week unveil a new platform for providing its content in a standardized delivery format that will enable the vendor to better meet specific client data needs.
Caplin Adds Reuters News to Trader
London-based data technology and trading software vendor Caplin Systems has integrated RSS news feeds from Thomson Reuters into its Caplin Trader front end, for banks to distribute to clients as part of their single-dealer trading platforms.
Endace Adds Visualizations, Data Forwarding to NinjaProbe
New Zealand-based network monitoring technology provider Endace last month rolled out a new version of its hardware-based NinjaProbe monitoring platform, which expands on the system's core packet capture functionality by adding a visualization tool and…