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CLS, Icap Enter Post-Trade JV
LONDON-The joint venture (JV) foreign exchange (FX) trade aggregation service set for launch by CLS and Icap is being met with cautious optimism from major dealers, with details of the project still unresolved.
Vienna Exchange Adopts Xetra for Warrants
VIENNA-Officials at the Wiener Börse expect to complete the migration of warrants to the Xetra platform, provided by Deutsche Börse, by the end of June in a single-day switchover. Once completed, all Vienna cash market products will be run on Xetra,…
YouDevise Expands HIP Analytics
Trade ideas distribution software vendor YouDevise has added a series of new reporting capabilities to its Web-based Hedge Fund Information Provider (HIP) analytics tool, to provide granular breakdowns of portfolio performance, exposure and liquidity to…
Tervela, Volante Ally for Integration
Hardware messaging provider Tervela is to re-sell integration software vendor Volante Technologies' Designer tool as a preconfigured integration layer between data sources, client applications and Tervela's Open Data Framework.
Kabrik Enlists EquityFeed for Trade Suite
New York Stock Exchange floor broker Kabrik Trading is creating a new suite of data, execution and research tools for its own brokers and institutional buy-side clients using the new EquityPipe data workstation from Montreal-based vendor EquityFeed.
BGC Aims for Front-End Consolidation
NEW YORK-Interdealer voice and electronic broker BGC Partners is currently looking at a way to provide a single trading front end for all instruments it supports. Part of the plan being studied is incorporating the creation, pricing and management of…
FTSE Mulls Tick-by-Tick Index Data
Index provider FTSE is holding discussions with clients to determine whether there is sufficient demand for the vendor to launch a real-time feed of index data, which would deliver streaming index values on a tick-by-tick basis.
Market Meltdown Fuels Operational Efficiency Drive
NEW YORK-For the remainder of the year, the futures industry is set to spend most of its IT dollars on improving operational efficiency and preparing for new regulations, according to industry insiders.
Volante Debuts Tervela Integration Platform
NEW YORK-In a bid to help firms speed the deployment of low-latency messaging architectures, integration tool provider Volante Technologies and low-latency messaging platform provider Tervela announced today, April 13, the general availability of Volante…
Ionic Deploys DJ News to Replace AFX Feed
UK-based data vendor Ionic Information will roll out content from Dow Jones Newswires as its main financial news provider in June after incumbent supplier Thomson Reuters gave notice that it will terminate the vendor's distribution contract, Ionic…
BNY ConvergEx Brings Algo Trading for Brazil Online
Despite the global economic downturn, interest in accessing the large emerging markets has not subsided. Asset mangers are seeking to diversify their portfolios geographically. One of the hottest markets is Brazil. In this issue, DWT looks at how the…
CSI Unveils Open-Source Feed Handlers
Collaborative Software Initiative, a Portland, Oregon venture for collaborative software development, will this week release the first set of open-source feed handlers based on technology developed by hardware messaging provider Tervela.
Wiener Börse Adds Balkans to ADH
Austrian exchange Wiener Börse has added real-time Slovenian market data from the Ljubljana Stock Exchange onto its Alliance Data Highway (ADH) feed, and will this month add data from the Banja Luka Stock Exchange in Bosnia and Herzegovina, officials…
DJ Kicks Off NewsPlus Changes
Dow Jones has revamped its News Plus portal and added a range of new content, as part of an ongoing project to upgrade the service and repackage the vendor's content and target new types of end-users.
StreamBase Builds FX Adapters
Complex event processing software vendor StreamBase Systems will this week roll out version 6.3 of its CEP platform, including data connectivity and functions tailored for foreign exchange trading.
Thomson Reuters Boosts Throughput with Multi-Threading
Thomson Reuters is preparing to launch a re-architected version of its Thomson Reuters Market Data System (formerly known as the Reuters Market Data System) that will enable clients to achieve higher data throughput by taking advantage of advances in…
EquityFeed Adds to Buy-Side App
Montreal-based data workstation provider EquityFeed will this week unveil a new display product, dubbed EquityPipe, tailored for proprietary traders and buy-side firms featuring additional content and analysis capabilities.
GL Net Grows Brazil Data with Local PoP
SunGard Global Trading (formerly GL Trade prior to its acquisition by SunGard) has opened a point of presence (PoP) for its GL Net network in Sao Paolo, Brazil, to provide clients with lower-latency access to stock, bond, commodities and futures data…
Deutsche Börse Xetra to Adopt Socket-Based Interface
FRANKFURT-With the next release of the Xetra trading platform, slated for June 8, German exchange operator Deutsche Börse will eliminate the need for users to maintain their member-integrated system server (MISS) in client datacenters, according to…
London Unphased by G20 Protests
LONDON-Financial firms in London had to increase their security arrangements and reassess their business continuity plans last week to weather potential disruptions caused by the protests around the Group of 20 (G20) summit in London.