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Skyler Enters European Markets
CONCORD, CALIF.-Low-latency trading products provider Skyler Technology announced today, March 10, that it has expanded the latest version of its C3 Liquidity Discovery Solution product to cover the European markets.
Schneider Adopts VoIP Turrets
LONDON-Execution broker Schneider Trading Associates has replaced its legacy hardwired Reuters dealerboards with Voice over IP (VoIP)-enabled turrets from Belgian turret vendor IP Trade, DWT has learned.
Smith Signs On to Lead Data Explorers Expansion
Donal Smith, former senior executive at Thomson Financial and newly appointed chief executive of London-based securities lending data provider Data Explorers, plans to expand the vendor's business in response to increased demand for securities lending…
HKEx Lifts Suspension Rule for Announcements
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing will this week eliminate the requirement for listed companies to suspend trading in shares when releasing data or announcements that might impact a company's share price, bringing HKEx more in line with other exchanges.
CodeStreet Adds Latency Monitor Tools
NEW YORK-based data software vendor CodeStreet will this week unveil a solution for monitoring and charting latency within Market Data Metrics, a component of the vendor's Market Data Works product suite.
Berry Bows Out from Barclays Capital
Prominent market data industry professional David Berry has left his position as head of market data business management at Barclays Capital after only 18 months in the role, and as a result has suspended his participation in French market data consumer…
Reuters Lines up DACS Partners
Three trading technology vendors-BNY Convergex subsidiary Eze Castle Software, Charles River Development, and SunGard subsidiary Front Arena-are integrating their software with the OpenDACS API to Reuters' Data Access Control System to help client firms…
BlueSys Expands Emerging Markets Data
Blue Systems, a London-based vendor of trading and data display technologies, is bolstering its coverage of emerging markets price data with end-of-day prices from 55 exchanges globally, sourced from Chicago-based data vendor World'Vest Base.
AMD Preps GPU-CPU Hybrid for 2009 Launch
SUNNYVALE, CALIF.-Processor maker Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) will release the first products featuring its new microprocessor design in 2009, officials tell DWT .
Tabb: Fragmentation Now the Norm
NEW YORK-Brokerages hoping to limit the number of U.S. liquidity pools to which they need to connect are in for a disappointment as the U.S. equity market is heading toward further fragmentation, according to a research note from industry analyst firm…
BNP Private Bank Deploys Traderforce
BNP Paribas has deployed a market data platform from Paris-based data and trading technology vendor Traderforce to support its private banking operations in the US and the Middle East.
Archangel Plans June Flight
NEW HOPE, PA.-Listed options block traders will have a new execution venue in a few months as alternative trading system (ATS) Archangel from software and network provider 3D Markets is set to go into full production by early June, vendor officials tell…
Data Vendors Ally Against Xinhua News
Major international financial information vendors might not renew contracts with China's state-run Xinhua News Agency to allow them to operate in China, following a complaint filed last week by European and US authorities demanding that China loosens…
FISD Surveys Exchanges on 'Internal' Data
The Business Issues Policy and Procedures Standards working group of data industry association the FISD sent a survey to 41 exchanges last Wednesday, requesting they clarify their policies for "internal" data usage by data vendors and consumer firms,…
Reuters Bows Latency Tool
Reuters will this week launch Reuters Latency Monitor (RLM), based on technology from New York-based data technology vendor Trading Metrics, to help clients determine the speed of market data delivery over Reuters' RMDS data distribution platform to data…
China Brokers Step Up FX Price Blackout
Distribution of market data on foreign exchange forwards and swaps in the Chinese interbank market has all but ceased as a result of broker anxiety over an opaque FX regulatory environment.
BT Preps Low-Latency 'Ultra' Europe
Network and hosting provider BT Global Financial Services is poised to launch a low-latency service for access to market data and order routing for European markets, officials tell Inside Market Data .
Reuters Unveils Credit Alerts, Bundled Valuations
Reuters last week unveiled two new data products-a system for generating alerts on credit-related events, and a new bundled valuation service-while at the same time launching an initiative to elicit feedback from industry participants on the best…
MSCI Bows Asia Hedge Fund Index
Index provider MSCI Barra will this month launch an investable index to capture the composition of the hedge fund universe in the Asia-Pacific region, in partnership with Paris-based Natixis Alternative Investments.