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NYSE Euronext to Boost Co-Lo Space
NYSE Euronext is in the process of building a new datacenter in the New York metropolitan area that will consolidate its three existing North American datacenters into one location, to meet demand for more co-location space from trading firms seeking low…
Aleri, Coral8 Merge Businesses
CHICAGO-Citing synergies in product features, customer base and geographic markets, the executives of complex event processing (CEP) platform providers Aleri and Coral8 announced today, March 9, that the two vendors have merged operations.
EBS Suffers Network Outage
LONDON-Foreign exchange (FX) traders needed to reroute their trades from the Icap-owned EBS platform for two hours last Thursday due to problems with the firm's network service provider, say Icap officials.
Susquehanna Expands Derivix Options Pricing
Broker-dealer Susquehanna Financial Group is increasing the number of trading positions that use New York-based options pricing and risk analytics software provider Derivix's pricing and analytics platform, to help its traders to quote options prices to…
SpryWare Readies Java Interface
Chicago-based ticker plant and low- latency data provider SpryWare is preparing to release a Java version of its market data API to enable broader use of its technology among firms that have built infrastructures and applications using the Java…
Icap Girds for Fixed-Income Growth
As the down economy has firms reprioritizing their IT spending, DWT U.S. reporter Oksana Poltavets sits down with Philip Gilligan, CIO of the global electronic broking unit at interdealer broker Icap, to discuss what Icap is doing to keep itself…
Thomson Reuters Bets $1bn on Multimedia
Thomson Reuters last week unveiled a beta version of a new multimedia platform that will be a core component of the new desktop product that the vendor plans to launch in the second half of this year.
Atrium Network Launches Exchange Ring
LONDON-Officials at financial connectivity provider Atrium Network announced today, March 9, the launch of Exchange Ring, an ultra-low latency infrastructure that will connect to multiple trading venues in London.
Quod Financial to Support FX
LONDON-Order management system (OMS) provider Quod Financial plans to add foreign exchange (FX) as an asset class in its routing environments later this year to augment its current support of equities, futures and options and fixed income, officials tell…
Fidessa Adds Asian Data to US Platform
Trading technology and data provider Fidessa has integrated market data from trading venues across Asia with its US trading platform to enable clients of its global trading service to trade Asian equities during local trading hours.
RTI Readies Excel Data Add-in
Low-latency messaging provider RTI will this week introduce a Microsoft Excel add-in for users to capture and analyze real-time data from RTI's messaging infrastructure within spreadsheets, and to publish results back to the middleware layer for…
RTI Debuts Real-Time Excel Link
SUNNYVALE, CALIF.-To provide real-time data to traders and analysts, middleware vendor Real-Time Innovations (RTI) has developed an add-in for Microsoft Excel, officials announced today, March 2.
GT Software Adds Specialty Engine Support to Ivory
ATLANTA-The latest release of mainframe service-oriented architecture (SOA) software developer GT Software's Ivory Service Architect (ISA) version 4.1 is now generally available, vendor officials will announce tomorrow, March 3.
Thomson Reuters to Speed Up Integration, Globalization in '09
Thomson Reuters will continue its focus on post-merger integration during 2009 by retiring legacy products and migrating customers to new products as well as consolidating datacenters, and will seek growth areas outside the US, officials said at the…
WSOD Upgrades, Integrates Broker Voting Module
Boulder, Colo.-based research platform provider Wall Street on Demand has upgraded the broker voting module of its research software suite to provide more granular reporting of broker performance and an integrated link between events being tracked and…
CQG Adds NTKN News, Opens Studies to Proprietary Data
Denver, Colo.-based data and charting provider CQG has begun a phased rollout of the latest version of its Integrated Client workstation, featuring new charting and analytic packages, and the addition of an elementized news feed from Need To Know News.
MSCI Adds Default Data to BarraOne
Index and risk management software provider MSCI Barra has integrated its Barra Default Probabilities and Barra Model- Implied Ratings into its BarraOne Web-based portfolio analytics and risk platform.
WSS Expands Free Filings, Holdings Data
New York-based news aggregator Wall Street Source has begun making some former subscription-only datasets available free of charge via its Web site, in addition to the aggregated news stories available for free on the vendor's homepage.
LeveL ATS Targets Block Traders with Smart Block
BOSTON-Alternative trading system (ATS) LeveL ATS looks to attract additional block order flow to its dark pool of liquidity with the planned launch of a new Smart Block order type, which is slated to go live by the end of the month.
Deutsche Börse Ponders MTF Play
FRANKFURT - German exchange operator Deutsche Börse is planning to enter the multilateral trading facility (MTF) arena, according to executives.