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Study: Green IT Adoption Wanting
LONDON-European firms are increasingly alert to the green IT agenda, but lack an understanding of what environmental technology options are available in the market, according to a white paper published by IT market research firm Vanson Bourne.
Egenera Expands OEM Partnerships
MARLBORO, MASS.-Datacenter virtualization software and hardware provider Egenera is on the verge of announcing a newly inked original equipment manufacturer (OEM) agreement with a "global firm," DWT has learned.
SWX Preps Non-Display Data Fees
Exfeed, the market data subsidiary of the SWX Swiss Exchange, plans to roll out a new data licensing policy on July 1 that will introduce charges for use of the exchange's real-time data in non-display applications.
Bloomberg SID Move Raises Admin Concerns
Bloomberg clients may face increased administration when consolidating usage and invoice information for market data inventory management, following the vendor's apparent decision to stop granting new requests to customers wishing to access enterprise…
LSE Issues New Borsa Feed Specs
The merged London Stock Exchange-Borsa Italiana has announced revised specifications for Borsa Italiana's MDF/DDM+ datafeed, which will distribute Italian equity market data from the LSE's TradElect electronic trading platform once the Italian exchange…
Microsoft Integrates Turrets
LONDON-Global software and technology provider Microsoft announced today, March 17, the launch of its Institutional Client Platform (ICP) that enables firms to integrate their entire communication infrastructure including instant messaging (IM), e-mail…
CLSA to Outsource Datacenters to BT
HONG KONG-Broker-dealer Credit Lyonnais Securities Asia (CLSA) has contracted BT to manage its global datacenter, according to a vendor spokesperson.
Centralized Order Books Take Hit Under Mifid
LONDON-Reconstructing a centralized order book in a Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (Mifid) environment is proving a serious challenge for many investment banks, according to research by Mifid think tank JWG-IT, which will be released in April.
Coral8 Release Boosts Query, Pattern-Tracking Capabilities
Complex event processing engine provider Coral8 has released version 5.2 of its Coral8 Engine, which includes enhancements for narrowing the range of queries and creating audit trails.
Skyler to Integrate European Data
Skyler Technologies, a Walnut Creek, Calif.-based data software vendor, will this week announce plans to integrate data from European and Asian markets into its C3 Liquidity Discovery Solution to enable firms to locate liquidity and the best price for…
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 .