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Aspen Enlists IDC for Web Hosting
Aspen Graphics has set up a new, hosted server farm within Interactive Data's point of presence in BT Global Financial Services' Nutley, New Jersey datacenter, to provide better service to clients of the vendor's Aspen on the Net (AOTN) online charting…
Activ Upgrades API Technology
Low-latency data and ticker plant vendor Activ Financial has made changes to its Application Program Interfaces (API) and Software Development Kit (SDK), which clients use to create interfaces between their applications and Activ's datafeed, to support…
TSE, OSE Bank On IT and Product Boost
LONDON-Keeping competitive in the shrinking global exchange marketplace is all about IT investments and product diversification, say senior officials from Japanese exchanges.
Triton Makes Asian Debut
HONG KONG-Agency broker-dealer and block-crossing network provider Investment Technology Group (ITG) has recently rolled out its Triton execution management system (EMS) to the Asia-Pacific regional markets.
Turquoise Picks Progress Apama for Surveillance
LONDON-Pan-European multilateral trading facility (MTF) Turquoise is preparing to roll out a real-time market surveillance platform from complex event processing (CEP) and algorithmic trading software vendor Progress Apama and U.K.-based consultancy…
NYSE Euronext, Caisse des Dépôts Launch BlueNext
PARIS-Global exchange operator NYSE Euronext and French state-owned financial institution Caisse des Dépôts have recently gone live with a new environmental exchange, dubbed BlueNext, say officials.
Newedge Preps for Yearend Integration
PARIS-Newly minted as a result of a joint venture, multi-asset brokerage Newedge plans to combine its operations into one trading system by the end of the year, say firm officials.
AFA to Add Non-U.S. Equities
NEW YORK-In part to capture more institutional business, order management system (OMS) provider Advanced Financial Applications (AFA) expects to support non-U.S. equities by the end of the first quarter, according to vendor officials.
BGC, Cantor Merger Drives New Data Sets
BGC Partners, the company being created by the pending merger of Cantor Fitzgerald's eSpeed electronic trading subsidiary with its former voice-broking spin-off, is set to release a slew of new market data products as a result of combining data from the…
Lehman Works to Share Grids
NEW YORK-Global investment bank Lehman Brothers is preparing to share its various production computing grids among several of its businesses with the eventual goal of merging them, firm officials tell DWT .
Turquoise Preps Apama Analysis Platform
European multilateral trading facility Turquoise is preparing to roll out a real-time market surveillance platform from event processing and algorithmic trading software vendor Progress Apama and consultancy Detica that can also be used for general…
Merrill Debuts London Datacenter
LONDON-Merrill Lynch has recently doubled its computing capacity in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) with the launch of a new London datacenter, DWT has learned.
Markit Preps 'Second-Gen' Boat Data
UK-based data vendor Markit plans to launch new data products over the coming months based on data from pre- and post-trade data publication utility Boat, following Markit's acquisition of Boat from its consortium of nine bank owners last week for an…
Global Exchanges Withstand Market Slide
NEW YORK-Throughout two days of dramatic market volatility on Jan. 22 and 23, many global exchanges saw record setting volumes, but few report technical difficulties.
Spryware Plans New York Expansion
Chicago-based low-latency data and ticker plant provider Spryware will open a sales and support office in New York at the start of February, to provide local service for the vendor's growing client base in the city.
FISD, SIIA Agree Market Data Certification Funding
Industry association FISD and parent the Software & Information Industry Association have agreed terms to fund a certification program for financial information professionals, officials tell IMD 's sibling publication Inside Reference Data
Equiduct Picks KTS for VBBO Data Display
European equity market operator Equiduct announced last week that it has engaged UK-based data and technology vendor Knowledge Technology Solutions to create a hosted Web application for traders and investors to view data from Equiduct's Virtual Best Bid…
Kaskad Tech Closes, Founder Clark Joins StreamBase
Boston-based complex event processing software start-up Kaskad Technology has officially closed down, and founder and chief technology officer Colin Clark has joined rival CEP software vendor StreamBase Systems.