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Onix Solutions Signs French Banks
LONDON-Two unnamed large energy trading French investment firms recently inked a deal with startup FIX connectivity vendor Onix Solutions (OnixS) to connect to the IntercontinentalExchange (ICE), say vendor officials.
CBOE Readies Management Automation
CHICAGO-In order to automate its application and infrastructure management, and stem the loss of institutional memory, the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) is using two products from IT and business service management provider BMC Software.
Router Utilization Downs Tocom Trading
TOKYO-Traders executing on the Tokyo Commodity Exchange (Tocom) experienced a three-and-a-half-hour break in action last Tuesday, May 12.
Citi Splits Market Data into Content, IT
Citigroup has reorganized its market data department, dividing staff between broader functions covering expense management and IT, and resulting in the departure of the bank's global head of market data.
NYSE Euronext to Beef Up Data Technologies
NYSE Euronext is making changes to the technologies that support its market data business in a drive to improve access to data from its own markets and from other exchanges and multilateral trading facilities via its NYSE Technologies data technology…
Audit Integrity Releases European Ratings
Audit Integrity, a Los Angeles-based provider of corporate integrity ratings, began a "soft rollout" to existing clients of ratings for companies in Western Europe earlier this month, as the first step in a broader international service release.
Capital IQ Expands Functionality, Datasets
Standard & Poor's Capital IQ division last month rolled out additional functionality and datasets in its Capital IQ desktop platform, to broaden its appeal and make it more of an enterprise-wide data offering.
Marketcetera Adds Support for Level 2 Feeds
Open-source trading platform vendor Marketcetera will this week release version 1.5 of its trading software, with the addition of support for Level 2 datafeeds and clients' in-house feeds.
Xignite Adds SeekingAlpha Transcripts
Web services data provider Xignite has made earnings call transcripts from SeekingAlpha.com available free of charge via its Web services platform, in a bid to provide more value-added content to clients and to help SeekingAlpha-which is a client of the…
Lenahan Exit Prompts Skyler Shuffle
Order book aggregation and trading technology vendor Skyler Technologies has reassigned the duties of its executive management team, following the recent departure of vice president of sales and marketing Michael Lenahan, officials say.
XTF Forms Data Utility with ETF Sponsors
New York-based Marco Polo XTF, the exchange-traded fund rating business of Marco Polo Network, is setting up a data utility that will provide normalized data on ETFs to ETF sponsors, intermediaries and data vendors.
Fixnetix Readies US Low-Latency Play
UK-based low-latency data vendor Fixnetix is setting up hubs and arranging connectivity to datacenters serving the financial trading community in the New York and Chicago, to provide European clients with access to exchanges in North America, and US…
Correlix Speeds New London Office to Meet Europe Demand
New York-based latency monitoring technology vendor Correlix is preparing to open an office in London to support a growing number of clients it has recently signed in Europe, officials tell Inside Market Data .
Capital IQ Expands Key Developments Feed After SystematIQ Study
Standard & Poor's Capital IQ division has increased the number of categories in its Key Developments feed of news and corporate events, and will continue to refine the tagging process used by the feed, following a study conducted by recently launched…
IBM Updates Low-Latency Messaging
IBM has released version 2.2 of its MQ Low Latency Messaging (LLM) layer. New features include a message store and shared memory capability to improve the product's reliability, speed and usability.
Pivot Adds Equities to Instant Markets
Messaging and collaboration software vendor Pivot is expanding its Instant Markets application, which creates a quote montage from prices in instant messages, to support block trading of US equities.
Bloomberg, Microsoft Forge Closer Partnership with New Excel Add-in
Bloomberg last week announced an updated version of its plug-in for Microsoft Excel, built in partnership with Microsoft's development team, and a closer partnership with the software giant that involves closer cooperation on client sales and marketing…
PHLX to Begin Inet Migration
NEW YORK-Global exchange operator Nasdaq OMX plans to begin moving the Philadelphia Stock Exchange (PHLX) to the operator's Inet trading system later this year as part of a trading platform upgrade. Nasdaq OMX aims to complete the project early in the…