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Vendors Brace for Merrill-Lehman Fallout
Data vendors are implementing cost control procedures to mitigate the impact of the sales of Merrill Lynch and Lehman Brothers to Bank of America and Barclays, respectively, last week.
Wall Street's Binge Leads to Integration Hangover
NEW YORK-After the aftershocks subside from the financial earthquake that hit Wall Street at the start of last week, IT executives from the institutions left standing will be forced to grapple with the headache of integrating their newly acquired wares…
STAC Readies Data Benchmarking Tools
The Securities Technology Analysis Center is set to unveil a suite of tools for benchmarking market data technology installations that will utilize a set of procedures expected to be approved last week by end-user members of STAC's Benchmark Council.
Nasdaq OMX Europe Preps for Friday Launch
LONDON-Starting this Friday, Sept. 26, traders on the European markets will be able to access the latest multilateral trading facility (MTF) as Nasdaq OMX readies for the scheduled launch of its Nasdaq OMX Europe MTF.
BusinessEvents Gain Distributed CEP Engines
NEW YORK-In the latest release, version 3.0, of Tibco's complex event processing (CEP) platform BusinessEvents, users can deploy distributed cache and rules engines, vendor officials announced today, Sept. 22.
Telvent Buys DTN for Agri Data Drive
Spanish energy technology service provider Telvent last week bought Omaha, Nebraska-based DTN-which provides data on the agricultural, refined fuels and weather markets-for $445 million in cash, to expand into the US agricultural and commodities data…
Sicom Set for Electronic Conversion
SINGAPORE-Within a week's time, the operators of the Singapore Commodities Exchange (Sicom) expect to take trading fully electronic on the exchange's new trading platform, dubbed e-Sicom.
eSignal Sites Add Real-Time BATS Data
Interactive Data's eSignal division has added real-time equity data to its Quote.com, RagingBull and FutureSource.com Web sites, using a feed of free market data from Kansas City, MO-based ECN BATS Trading, officials tell Inside Market Data .
Tora Adds Latency Measurements to EMS
NEW YORK-Electronic trading platform provider for Asian liquidity Tora Trading Services announced today, Sept. 15, that it has deployed software from Trading Metrics, a provider of latency monitoring tools, to measure its trading latency.
Calypso Technology Updates Fast-Track
SAN FRANCISCO-Trading software vendor Calypso Technology has released today, Sept. 15, Fast-Track version 2, the latest version of its preconfigured application environment designed to expedite deployment of Calypso's offerings.
TMX Plans Expansion of Insider Trade Data Service
TMX, the exchange group created from the merger of the Toronto and Montreal exchanges, is planning to make its Inside Trade Marker service available as part of its real-time datafeeds, officials say.
Solace Taps Former Tibco Staffers for New Offices
Hardware-based networking provider Solace Systems recently completed a hiring spree of former Tibco staff to fill a round of new offices in Atlanta, Palo Alto and Tokyo that the vendor announced last week.
Xeno Adds Online TimeScape Training
UK-based data technology vendor Xenomorph is introducing a new online training function to help its clients make better use of its flagship TimeScape data management and analytics system, officials tell Inside Market Data . The move will help clients to…
Fitch Preps CDS Pricing Enhancements
Fitch Solutions, the technology and content arm of ratings agency Fitch, is pitching its Risk Performance Platform at a range of new uses for pricing credit instruments, after conducting an internal study to validate its pricing model.
ASCI Readies ActiveBatch Release
MORRISTOWN, N.J.-Job-scheduling software vendor Advanced Systems Concepts Inc. (ASCI) will release the newest version of its ActiveBatch platform by yearend, vendor officials tell DWT .
Tokyo Market Gears Up for Platform Change
TOKYO-The Tokyo Financial Exchange (TFX) and Osaka Securities Exchange (OSE) are in the process of replacing their respective trading platforms.
LSE Trading Halt Reveals Dependencies
LONDON-The European market got an unexpected wake-up call last week when, due to a confluence of events that affected connection stability between London Stock Exchange (LSE) members and the exchange's gateway, traders were unable to complete orders in…
CantorCO2e Preps Web-based CER Auction
LONDON-Officials from CantorCO2e, a member of the Cantor Fitzgerald group of companies, plan to hold their first online auction for certified emission reductions (CERs) using the firm's new Web-based auction platform on Oct. 2.
Omgeo Moves to Collateral Management
NEW YORK-Industry utility best known for automating post-trade settlements has its eyes on the over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives markets with the acquisition of collateral management platform vendor Allustra and an exclusive licensing agreement with…