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Opra Predicts Slower Traffic Growth
The Options Price Reporting Authority has revised its traffic projections for January 2009 downwards, reflecting the success of quote mitigation strategies implemented by the US options exchanges to counteract the anticipated data volume increases…
Holiday Volumes Slow LSE Level 2 Data
The London Stock Exchange experienced a slowdown in the distribution of its Level 2 market data as the last issue of Inside Market Data went to press, resulting in a 20-minute extension of the exchange's closing auction to ensure trading participants…
Newsflows Now a Necessity
LONDON-According to a recent white paper commissioned by Thomson Reuters on the role of news feeds in algorithmic trading, 65 percent of those surveyed say they could increase trading profits through automatic trading on news and 75 percent say it was…
ISE Updates SOR Engine
NEW YORK-In an effort to gain more control over its technology, the International Securities Exchange (ISE) has rolled out its own order routing system for its options exchange.
NSX Suffers FIX Outage
CHICAGO-A glitch in one of the 10 FIX engines at the National Stock Exchange (NSX) caused a disruption in connectivity last Tuesday.
Power, Latency Still Top CPU Priorities
LONDON-Reducing energy consumption as well as latency are key requirements from sell-side firms when it comes to processors, according to an industry insider.
Energy Firm GasTerra Squeezes Data Spend
Dutch energy trading firm GasTerra has initiated a project to review its market data consumption and spend in order to help ensure compliance with usage policies, rationalize costs and better prepare for future contract negotiations.
Equiduct Eyes September Launch
LONDON-Aiming for a soft launch by the end of September, multilateral trading facility (MTF) Börse Berlin Equiduct Trading officials are now in the process of onboarding members and fine tuning the technology, officials tell DWT .
NYSE Readies New Data Fee Structure
NYSE Euronext is planning to introduce a new billing scheme for market data, designed to make access to its data products more affordable for firms subscribing to the exchange's datafeed products, and clearly differentiate between end-user firms and…
Bloomberg Reorgs; Fenwick Gets New Gig
Bloomberg officials last week unveiled a new operating structure that divides the vendor into three business areas, and confirmed the creation of a new business, Bloomberg Ventures, to be headed by current Bloomberg CEO Lex Fenwick.
Front-Office Quant Spending to Increase
BOSTON-Traders in the front office need to make room for quantitative analysts, as the role of the model-generators has shifted in the past several years, according to a recent report on alpha-generation platforms from research firm Aite Group.
Proquote Adds Martin Data for Treasury App
The London Stock Exchange's data terminal vendor Proquote has launched a new product targeted at the UK treasury market, dubbed Proquote Treasury, which incorporates specialist content sourced via a recently formed relationship with UK-based Martin…
TheMarkets Expands Direct Broker Feeds
Investment bank consortium-owned research portal TheMarkets.com has begun an initiative to expand the number of independent research providers and brokers providing direct feeds of research data to its portal, as an alternative to third-party research…
Algos to Solve FX Fragmentation
NEW YORK-Systematic and algorithmic trading could be implemented to combat the liquidity fragmentation in the electronic foreign exchange (FX) space, according to an industry insider.
TraderTools Adopts SmartTrade LMS
NEW YORK & PARIS- Foreign exchange (FX) trading technology vendor TraderTools has adopted SmartTrade's STTP 5.5 liquidity management system for use within its Liquidity Management Platform, say vendor officials.
Landsbanki Kepler Debuts GL Trade's SOR
PARIS & LONDON-European investment bank Landsbanki Kepler has gone live with GL Trade's smart order routing (SOR) technology, say officials.
Minerva Gains Credit Suisse FX Algos
LONDON-Credit Suisse has integrated foreign exchange (FX) smart routing and algorithmic execution strategies into Fidessa LatentZero's Minerva order and execution management system (OEMS), with the bank's Advanced Execution Services (AES) FX, vendor…
Misys Eyes Latin American Operations
NEW YORK-Technology and software vendor Misys is expanding its operations in Latin America by beefing up its operations in the Brazilian market, DWT has learned.