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Thomson Reuters Expands Direct Feeds
Thomson Reuters is developing a range of low-latency feed handlers to meet growing demand for direct feeds from emerging markets, such as the Bombay Stock Exchange, which will go live this week on the Reuters Data Feed Direct service.
Moody's Adds Ratings Information, CDS Data to CreditQuotes
Moody's CreditQuotes will this week release a new version of its desktop pricing, data and valuation application for credit default swaps and corporate bonds, which will incorporate Moody's ratings data and new features requested by clients, to make the…
Breakingviews to Widen Distribution
Financial commentary and news analysis provider Breakingviews.com plans to broaden the distribution of its content, including expanding its coverage and commercial relationships in Asia, in a bid to establish itself as a global content provider.
QuantHouse Rounds Out Euro Coverage
French low-latency data and trading technology vendor QuantHouse is rolling out a series of feed handlers to complete its coverage of European cash equity markets.
NYSE Standardizes Unit of Count
NYSE Euronext has changed the unit of count by which vendors count and charge for market data from the exchange, to recognize "subscribers"-to include individual traders or applications-rather than "devices."
Celoxica Readies LSE Data, Eyes Distribution Partners
UK-based hardware-accelerated feed handler provider Celoxica is rolling out support for datafeeds from three London-based markets in response to demand from clients, and aims to establish new partnerships to broaden the distribution of its technologies.
Roberts Group Boosts FITS Automation
Market data inventory and management service provider The Roberts Group has released a new version of its Financial Information Tracking System, which incorporates additional features to help users speed up and automate processes.
Nasdaq OMX Sets Neuro Dark Launch
LONDON-European liquidity is about to get a little darker as multilateral trading facility (MTF) Nasdaq OMX Europe plans to launch its pan-European dark pool, dubbed Neuro Dark, on April 27.
FFastFill Preps Dashboard Update
LONDON-Electronic trading software provider FFastFill is planning a mid-year rollout of a new dashboard offering that will make it easier to automatically clear trades, vendor officials tell DWT .
MarketAxess Plans European Cross
NEW YORK-Electronic fixed-income trading venue MarketAxess expects to introduce its hybrid Market List crossing capability to its European business sometime before the end of the year, say MarketAxess officials.
Pragma Readies New Dark Pool
NEW YORK-To combat the growing fragmentation of the dark pool space, quantitative financial technology provider Pragma plans to launch its own venue.
Tullett Prebon Selects Orc for Paris Office
PARIS-Global interdealer broker Tullett Prebon recently went live with Orc Software's electronic trading platform Orc Trading, which will be its main derivatives trading platform for its listed derivatives trading desk in Paris, say officials.
Panel: Latency Also Key for Smart Order Routers
LONDON-Aside from worrying about whether their smart order routers are the smartest, sell-side firms operating in the European markets also need to ensure they are the fastest, according to market participants.
NSX Eyes Direct Feeds in Latency Drive
The National Stock Exchange is setting up direct connections to other US equity exchanges to cut data latency by capturing quote and trade data from direct feeds rather than from the Securities Information Processors that support the consolidated…
LSE, Borsa Italiana Eye Consolidation Finish Line
LONDON-Officials from Borsa Italiana and its owner, the London Stock Exchange (LSE), expect to complete the integration of the exchanges' trading activities in the second quarter of this year, DWT has learned.
SIX Signs Vendors for Low-Latency Feed
The SIX Swiss Exchange is conducting conformance testing with a number of data vendors to carry data from its recently launched, low-latency Market Data Interface feed.
NSX Shaves Latency on Blade Engine
JERSEY CITY, N.J.-After multiple concurrent year-long projects to optimize and improve its Blade matching engine, the National Stock Exchange (NSX) is currently performing at sub-millisecond speeds.
LSE Readies FAST Feed for Borsa Data
The London Stock Exchange is to launch a new feed of Italian market data from subsidiary Borsa Italiana that will utilize the FAST (FIX Adapted for Streaming) Protocol for data compression, as part of version 5.0 of its TradElect trading engine, which…
Newedge: Assessing One Year On
The initial spade work needed prior to a merger is always difficult, but integrating two IT infrastructures to meet a single unified business plan is never a simple task. DWT U.S. reporter Oksana Poltavets speaks with Stephen Davy, the newly appointed…
Fixnetix Bows Arca Europe
UK-based data and trading technology vendor Fixnetix last week launched low-latency data and order-routing connectivity to NYSE Euronext's new multilateral trading facility NYSE Arca Europe.