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TradElect Replacement Fuels LSE's MillenniumIT Buy
LONDON-In a move that surprised many in the industry, the LSE Group recently announced plans to acquire Sri Lankan exchange platform provider MillenniumIT in a deal priced at £18 million ($30 million), say exchange officials.
Chimera Securities Rolls Out OneTick
New York-based proprietary trading firm Chimera Securities is deploying the OneTick historical and real-time tick data processing solution from tick data management and analytics vendor
Bank Leumi Takes WSS FX Options Module Live
TEL AVIV-Bank Leumi went into production with Wall Street Systems' (WSS's) foreign exchange (FX) options module for the middle- and back-office processing of vanilla, exotic and non-deliverable options at the end of August, DWT has learned.
Options IT Acquires BNP Paribas IaaS Unit
NEW YORK-Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) provider Options IT has expanded its U.S. datacenter footprint with the acquisition of the assets and clients of BNP Paribas' infrastructure hosting business, officials announced today, Sept. 21.
Bats Mulls Second U.S. Quote
KANSAS CITY, MO.-The operators of the Bats Exchange plan to file an application with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for a second equities exchange license for a new exchange to be called BYX, according to officials.
Carnegie Bank Upgrades PC Blades
NEW YORK-As part of a trading floor re-fresh, Swedish investment bank Carnegie Bank plans to roll out the latest version of ClearCube Technology's quad-monitor PC blade platform across its trading floor, vendor officials announced today, Sept. 21.
NYSE Euronext Preps EU Data Policy
NYSE Euronext plans to adopt a new European data policy for members later this month, similar to the model adopted for its US data products earlier this year ( IMD , March 23), officials say.
CM-CIC Cuts Latency With QuantHouse
French securities broker CM-CIC Securities has deployed low-latency datafeeds from French vendor QuantHouse to support the firm's algorithmic trading and smart order-routing applications.
LSE's MillenniumIT Buy Prompts Feed Switch
The London Stock Exchange Group will introduce a new feed architecture to replace its current Infolect data distribution platform, following its £18 million ($30 million) acquisition of Sri Lanka-based exchange technology provider MillenniumIT, announced…
BarCap Strengthens Barx's FX Bite
LONDON-Barclays Capital (BarCap), the investment banking division of Barclays Bank, has expanded the foreign exchange (FX) trading capabilities of its Barclays Automated Real-time Execution (Barx) electronic trading platform by introducing a new suite of…
Cloud Consortium Starts Monterey Initiative
NEW YORK-Several cloud computing vendors have announced the planned availability of an integrated enterprise cloud computing test bed, dubbed Monterey, today, Sept. 14.
Solace Upgrades SolaceMQ Scalability, Security
OTTAWA-Hardware-based data accelerator platform provider Solace Systems announced today, Sept. 14, version 4.5 of its SolaceMQ queued messaging platform that offers a major performance boost and improved security capabilities over the previous release.
Solace Touts Latency, Volume Advances
Hardware-based messaging provider Solace Systems will this week announce that it has achieved latency of less than 700 nanoseconds for data transfer between applications using shared memory over the same motherboard in co-location environments requiring…
Erste Group Deploys CMA for Credit Pricing
Austrian investment bank Erste Group Bank has integrated pricing and analytics from CME Group subsidiary Credit Market Analysis' DataVision end-of-day pricing product to support its credit trading and structuring operations, officials say.
Kx Improves kdb+ Data Management
Data technology vendor Kx Systems has released version 2.6 of its kdb+ database, which adds support for nanosecond timestamps, and improved tools for managing data transfer across different instances of kdb+ and to other data-consuming applications.
Thomson Reuters Waives EU Consolidated Tape Fees
Thomson Reuters has waived the fees for its .XBO consolidated tape of European best bid and offer data to promote uptake among user firms, officials say.
Reuters First Approaches Last Days
Thomson Reuters is set to retire its Reuters First legacy Nordic data display product, which evolved from a desktop terminal developed by Falcon Information Services, a Norwegian vendor acquired by Reuters in 1991.
Aqumin Integrates Bloomberg Data into Heatmap Displays
Houston, Texas-based data visualization software vendor Aqumin will this week release version 2.0 of its AlphaVision heatmap display tool, which allows users to incorporate data from their Bloomberg Professional terminals into the charting displays.
Calypso Gets SuperDerivatives Data
Derivatives pricing and risk management software vendor SuperDerivatives has integrated its pricing and analytics with Calypso Technology's trading and risk management platform, enabling users to capture and process prices for over-the-counter cash and…
Screen Preps New Offices For Regional Growth
Netherlands-based market data software vendor Screen Consultants plans to establish permanent offices in the UK, Scandinavia and North America, following key executive hires earlier this year, officials say.
Millistream Readies Web Services Data Delivery
Swedish data vendor Millistream Market Data is in the final stages of developing a Web Services capability to deliver on-demand data to clients, using SOAP technology, and has already built a number of components to help customers develop customized Web…
YouDevise Adds Data Loaders, Analytics to HIP
Trade ideas distribution software vendor YouDevise has added extra capabilities for loading historical data and for pre- and post-trade analysis to its HIP Hedge Fund Information Provider system, to provide easier integration for funds of hedge funds…