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Thomson Reuters Enhances .X With BBO, Time and Sales
Thomson Reuters will change the structure of its .X suffix, which is used for viewing consolidated European market data, to address the cost of subscribing to the feed, officials tell Inside Market Data .
LSE Reshuffles Italian Info Services
The Borsa Italiana division of the London Stock Exchange Group has reorganized the business development arm of its information services business, resulting in new responsibilities for Milan-based product management staff.
Market Crisis Pushes IT Agility
LONDON-The economic downturn is forcing firms to reassess their IT strategies in order to keep ahead of the competition in the coming year, according to industry participants.
RTS Debuts FIX-based DMA System
MOSCOW-In the face of the financial crisis, Russian Trading System Stock Exchange (RTS) officials are working on technology projects in an attempt to lure foreign investors.
Canadian Fragmentation Draws E-Trading Vendors
NEW YORK-Canadian and foreign traders have seen a number of new trading tools pop up to help them exploit the fragmented market structure following the recent introduction of a number of alternative trading systems (ATSes) in Canada.
SuperDerivatives Upgrades Front-End Productivity
NEW YORK-Options and derivatives pricing software provider SuperDerivatives plans to help its sell-side clients deliver and sell more complex derivatives with a new set of productivity enhancement tools that the vendor has added to its trading front end,…
Culture, Service Levels Challenge Grid Adoption
LONDON-Although grid computing has come a long way in terms of evolution, the financial industry still has some substantial barriers to overcome, especially for dynamic and utility computing, according to an industry observer.
29West Eyes In-Memory Additions
NEW YORK-Low-latency messaging products provider 29West is aiming enhance performance in hardware, as well as networking environments by adding in-memory transport in the next release of its Latency Business Messaging (LBM) and Ultra Messaging for the…
BlueCrest Builds on CEP Data Platform
London-based hedge fund BlueCrest Capital Management is expanding the range of data sources and analytics that it makes available to its traders over a market data platform created using technologies from complex event processing software vendor…
Autobahn Equity Links to AutEx
PARIS-Users of Deutsche Bank's Autobahn Equity multi-broker trading platform can now disseminate indications of interest (IoIs) across electronic multi-asset trading venue Tradeweb's AutEx network, say vendor officials.
VWD Appeals EC Thomson Reuters Approval
German data vendor VWD is appealing the European Commission's decision earlier this year to approve the merger of Thomson and Reuters, Inside Market Data has learned.
TSE Sets 2010 Launch for Arrowhead
TOKYO-Operators of the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) now expect to take Arrowhead, the exchange's new cash-equities platform, originally planned for a mid-2009 launch, live in January 2010, according to an exchange spokesperson.
Building a Better Brazilian Exchange
Nearly nine months into the integration, officials from Brazilian exchanges Brazilian Mercantile and Futures Exchange (BM&F) and Bovespa are focusing on eliminating redundancies while maintaining technology upgrades. DWT U.S. reporter Oksana Poltavets…
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