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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…
Patsystems Updates Pro-Mark
NEW YORK-In the recently upgraded release, version 5.4, of its Pro-Mark trading application, Patsystems has added additional keyboard functionality to improve the trading experience, according to a vendor spokesperson.
NYSE Euronext Sets 2010 London Datacenter Debut
LONDON-Exchange operator NYSE Euronext is set to finish building its new primary European datacenter, located outside London, next month, and will have the core technologies in place by the first quarter of 2010, say officials.
SuperDerivatives Expands in Asia
HONG KONG-A Hong Kong-based third-tier bank is set to go live with SuperDerivatives' (SD's) trading and pricing platforms by June, according to the vendor.
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…