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TPI Upgrades Tech in Quality Drive
Tullett Prebon Information is testing an upgrade to its data architecture designed to identify and remove anomalous data items from its feed, as part of an ongoing market data quality control effort, officials say.
Colt: Latency Spend Escapes Credit Crunch
Banks will continue to invest in technology to reduce latency within data delivery and trading architectures, despite tighter budgets as the result of the ongoing credit crunch, according to a survey conducted recently by Colt Telecom.
TradeWeb Readies FASB- Compliant Trade Data
Electronic fixed-income market Tradeweb will next month begin disseminating transaction prices to subscribers of its Tradeweb Composite Marks service to help firms comply with the Financial Accounting Standards Board's Statement No. 157.
Deutsche Börse Beefs Up CEF for Scoach Data
Deutsche Börse has made changes to its underlying CEF feed architecture to support distribution of data from its Scoach structured products market, which recently migrated from the exchange's Xontro floor trading system to its Xetra trading platform,…
Amerex Plans Data Expansion with e-Trading Migration
Amerex, the energy broking subsidiary of interdealer broker GFI, is considering ways to package the quote and trade data that will be generated by an expansion of contracts traded on GFI's EnergyMatch electronic commodities trading platform, officials…
NextView Rolls Out Vietnam Data
Singapore-based data vendor NextView will begin distributing Level 1 tick data and three levels of market depth data from the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange (HOSE) to local and international traders at the end of May, as part of an agreement signed between…
RTS to Add Options
NEW YORK-Users of the RTD Tango algorithmic trading platform from RTS Realtime Systems Group can plan on options trading support by year-end, RTS officials say.
GFI Expands EnergyMatch
NEW YORK-Traders using interdealer broker GFI's EnergyMatch will be able to trade electric power and natural gas products on the platform from the same interface within months, says Ian Clague, head of energy products for North America at GFI.
Taiwan Exchange to Retire FAST Engine
Taipei-As part of a local three-exchange consolidation, the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TSEC) plans to retire its fully automated securities trading (FAST) platform and replace it with a third-party matching engine, according to officials.
NYSE Euronext to Enter MTF Fray
NEW YORK-Global exchange operator NYSE Euronext plans to roll out its own multilateral trading facility (MTF), say exchange officials.
Taming the Algo
DWT European reporter Cecilia Bergamaschi sits down with Alexandra Foster, head of global execution sales, U.K., for BNP Paribas, to discuss algorithmic trading trends.
SOA Makes Strides Down Under
SYDNEY-Financial firms in Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) are leading their regional counterparts in Asia-Pacific in terms of adopting service-oriented architecture (SOA), according to research firm Springboard Research.
Thomson Reuters Seeks DLA Mergers
Thomson Reuters has begun contacting exchanges to consolidate the data license agreements (DLAs) previously held by Thomson Financial and Reuters into a single contract with each exchange for the merged vendor.
NYSE Euronext Preps New Feeds
NYSE Euronext is preparing to launch a common feed architecture for data from all its European markets, using technology from recently acquired subsidiary Wombat Financial Software, and is readying a new, low-latency feed of US data, officials tell…
Sybase Unveils Market Data Platform
Database and technology vendor Sybase will this week launch its RAP (Real-time Analytics Platform) Trading Edition platform, which combines management of market data at three levels-low-latency data for automated trading applications, real-time data for…
Chi-X Readies Data for Smart Order Routing
European multilateral trading facility Chi-X is preparing to roll out a smart order-routing service that uses market data consolidated from multiple exchanges and trading venues as the basis for trading decisions, to help customers comply with the best…
Infront Develops Derivatives Module
Norwegian data and trading technology vendor Infront has developed a new derivatives data display module for its Web-based Online Trader data display and trading application, officials say.
SR Labs Preps Feed Expansion
SR Labs, a New York-based provider of technology for processing direct feeds for algorithmic trading applications at exchange co-location facilities, is in the midst of a second round of feed handler development to broaden the range of venues that the…
Panel: Lack of Data Hampers Valuations
A lack of timely and consistent data is compounding the difficulty of valuing illiquid structured credit instruments during the ongoing credit crisis, according to an industry panel hosted by Thomson Reuters in London last week.