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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.
Turquoise Set to Launch Aggregation Service
LONDON - European multilateral trading facility (MTF) Turquoise is preparing to launch a pan-European liquidity aggregation service later this month, officials tell DWT .
Deutsche Börse Turbocharges Xetra Data
Deutsche Börse will this summer launch a feed of low-latency data from its Xetra cash securities market, based on the same CEF Ultra+ technology it already uses to distribute low-latency market data from its Eurex derivatives exchange, officials tell…
Intel Rolls Out ‘Nehalem' Family
NEW YORK-The financial services industry will be able to wring out even more energy efficiency and power usage from the new Intel Xeon processor 5500 series, vendor officials tell DWT .
MSCI Barra Unveils Historical Packages
Index provider and risk management software vendor MSCI Barra has revamped its historical index data service to provide a more flexible offering for historical analysis, tailored to the needs of specific client types.
StreamBase Debuts FX Aggregation
NEW YORK-Users of the StreamBase engine from complex event processing (CEP) software vendor StreamBase Systems will now have the ability to aggregate foreign exchange (FX) venues using the latest version of the product released today, April 6.