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MetaBit Turns to Solace for Performance Bump
TOKYO-In order to boost the performance of its trading offerings in the Asia-Pacific markets, trading technology provider MetaBit plans to embed low-latency, high-throughout Solace 3260 Content Routers from hardware-based middleware and messaging…
Thomson Reuters Adds Commodities to NewsScope
NEW YORK-Black-box traders have another tool at their disposal, as Thomson Reuters expands the coverage of its Reuters NewsScope Sentiment Engine (RNSE) with a new module that covers the commodities and energy markets, officials plan to announce Tuesday,…
Exchange Giants Prepare for New Markets
LONDON & NEW YORK-To meet the rapidly changing market structures, major exchange operators are on the verge of launching a number of initiatives to maintain their dominant positions in the global markets.
Experts: Think Twice About Low-Latency Race
LONDON-Although achieving ultra-low latency is the top priority for many market players, it is fundamental that firms assess their business needs as well as the costs of maintaining a leading-edge infrastructure before deciding to enter the speed battle,…
Liquidnet Tackles Latency via Direct Feeds
Alternative trading system Liquidnet is migrating from a consolidated vendor feed of equities data to a direct exchange feed solution for incoming market data, to reduce the latency of data used to determine routing strategies and of its own mid-point…
Reuters Adds Commodities News Sentiment
Thomson Reuters has expanded its NewsScope Sentiment Engine, which ascribes sentiment "scores" to news stories to reflect how positive or negative they are for use in algorithmic trading engines, with the addition of scores for real-time commodity and…
Bloomberg Snaps Up Industry Veterans Brain, Jacobi
Bloomberg has bolstered its data sales and acquisition functions with the recent hires of two senior data executives from end-user firms, Simon Brain and Rich Jacobi.
Hedgehogs.net Seeks Data For Web Portal App Store
Hedgehogs.net, a recently launched Web portal that combines a social networking platform for investment professionals to communicate with peers with aggregated Web content, is in negotiations with data vendors to provide access to data for third-party…
RTS Adds Ukrainian Data, Eyes Exchange Data Partners
The Moscow-based RTS Stock Exchange began distributing real-time market data from the Ukrainian Exchange last Wednesday, May 20, officials tell Inside Market Data.
Celoxica Preps 29West LBM Acceleration Card
UK-based hardware acceleration technology vendor Celoxica has begun beta testing an accelerator card that will reduce latency for customers using 29West's Latency Busters Messaging (LBM) over UDP (User Datagram Protocol) Multicast links, officials tell…
Open-Source OMS Adds Real-Time Capabilities
SAN FRANCISCO-The latest release, version 1.5, of the open-source order management system (OMS) from vendor Marketcetera now includes features to help traders scale, support multiple users and get deeper real-time reporting on profit and loss (P&L) for…
TraderTools to Integrate Caplin Trader
NEW YORK-Foreign ex-change (FX) trading technology provider TraderTools is planning major third quarter upgrades to its Liquidity Management Platform, including the white-labeling of Caplin Trader from Caplin Systems, vendor officials announced today,…
29West's UME Gains Low-Latency Queuing
NEW YORK-Low-latency messaging products provider 29West is set to introduce support for queuing as a delivery type for its Ultra Messaging for the Enterprise (UME) product, DWT has learned.
RMS Vendors Integrate FirstRain Content
Web research and search technology provider FirstRain is making its company research, competitor ecosystem analysis and management turnover reports available as an XML datafeed or embedded widgets within the platforms of research management platform…
BIDS Trading Rolls Out SuperFeed for Market Data
BIDS Trading, an alternative trading system for anonymous block equity trading, has deployed the SuperFeed managed ticker plant from NYSE Euronext's NYSE Technologies data and technology division (formerly Wombat Financial Services), to support its…
29West Develops Fast-Track Queuing
Low-latency messaging middleware vendor 29West is preparing to release a new message queuing function as part of its Ultra Messaging for the Enterprise (UME) data distribution platform, to manage data transfer between applications.
RTS Realtime Systems Connects to Bats Europe
CHICAGO-Traders looking to connect to multilateral trading facilities (MTFs) now can route to Bats Europe via exchange gateway provider RTS Realtime Systems Group, officials announced today, May 18.
Appro Rolls Out Hybrid Server
MILPITAS, CALIF.-Enterprise server maker Appro has released its first server offering-the Appro HyperPower Cluster (APC)-that marries graphical processing units (GPUs) from Nvidia with Intel Xeon processors, today, May 18, according to a vendor…