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CME Acquires Nymex
CHICAGO & NEW YORK-After extending exclusive acquisition talks, Chicago Mercantile Exchange operator CME Group has announced its purchase of the New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex) for $9.4 billion in cash and stock.
Arbitragis Picks Quant House for Arb Algos
French proprietary trading firm Arbitragis has begun using low-latency market data from local vendor Quant House to power its algorithmic arbitrage trading strategies, officials say.
HKEx Preps Remote Participation
HONG KONG-The Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEx) is in discussions with telecommunications giant BT's Global Financial Services division to distribute market data and possibly trading capabilities via the vendor's RadianzNet financial intranet,…
FISD to Compare 'Trading' Data Fees
The Business Issues Policy and Procedures Standards working group of data industry association FISD is seeking to clarify exchanges' fee policies for market data used by traders and their assistants engaged in trading on those exchanges.
JPM, Bear Scramble to Integrate
NEW YORK-On the heels of one of the shortest due-diligence periods on Wall Street, investment banks JPMorgan Chase and Bear Stearns are rushing to create an integration strategy, insiders tell DWT .
Saxo Jumps on the Bus
Trading front end updates, architecture redesigns and a message bus deployment are just a few of the projects that are keeping Saxo Bank executive director and co-CIO Flemming Skov busy this year. DWT editor Rob Daly sits down with Skov to see what else…
HKEx Enlists BT for Remote Trading
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing is in discussions with network provider BT Global Financial Services to provide market data distribution and possibly trade connectivity via the vendor's RadianzNet financial services network, in anticipation of…
Pivot Preps $3M Expansion
Trade messaging and collaboration infrastructure technology provider Pivot has raised $3 million in new funding, to enable the vendor to expand its sales force and to fund development of new modules for its Pivot 360° platform, officials say.
Traderforce Builds US Team, Mulls Direct Feeds
French data vendor Traderforce plans to bolster its US presence by setting up a sales and support office in New York alongside a local datacenter, and is also looking at sourcing direct datafeeds to support latency-sensitive clients in the region.
Opra Delays FAST Switchover
The Options Price Reporting Authority has delayed the date for clients to complete their migration to the bandwidth-reducing FAST (FIX Adapted for Streaming data) protocol, to give subscribers additional time for testing with the new format.
Quant House Grows US Feeds, Ops
French low-latency data provider Quant House is planning to add to the range of US markets accessible via its feed handlers and QuantFeed low-latency feed, and to bolster its US presence with a Chicago office, officials tell Inside Market Data .
Nasdaq Readies Sentiment Tool
Nasdaq OMX is beta-testing a tool for measuring market sentiment, dubbed Nasdaq Market Pathfinders, which tracks the number of "pathfinders" buying and selling volumes of a specific stock, pending Securities and Exchange Commission approval to formally…
Turquoise Selects NeoNet for "Internal" Data
Bank-backed multilateral trading facility (MTF) Turquoise last week signed a deal with Swedish agency broker, data and technology vendor NeoNet to provide the pan-European equity market data that will drive Turquoise's trading platform.
Edgar Online Adds Ratios, Plans White-Label Tools
Filings and company data provider Edgar Online has increased the number of ratios, for assessing companies' risk and identifying trends from figures in financial statements, within its I-Metrix product suite for viewing and filtering financial statement…
Sybase Integrates CEP Vendor Tools
Database vendor Sybase is preparing to launch a new technology platform targeted at addressing different data speed and throughput requirements of trading desks for different data types, such as streaming data, historic data and trade messages, within…
Sybase Gears Up for Hybrid Offering
NEW YORK-Database vendor Sybase plans to release a new platform offering targeting the trading desk's need for streaming, transaction and historic data, officials say.
FX Lags in TCA Adoption
NEW YORK-Transaction cost analysis (TCA) will take a back seat in 2008, as markets focus on challenges in credit, liquidity and balance sheets, say senior bankers in London.
ITG Rolls Out Netting Service
NEW YORK-Agency brokerage and crossing network provider ITG has recently added a new trade-ticket netting service, dubbed Single Ticket Clearing, to its ITG Net order routing network, according to firm officials.
IBM Readies Diskless On-Demand Environment
NEW YORK-IBM is working on releasing a diskless environment for the Dynamic option of its Deep Computing Capacity on Demand (DCCoD) offering to debut early in the second quarter, DWT has learned.