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Connotate, Serena, Xignite Prep Mashup Portals
Three vendors of technologies for creating “mashups”—applications created by combining different Web services—aimed at financial services firms are rolling out new portals for pulling together data services and building tools on the fly without needing…
Traderforce Bolsters Asian Presence
Paris-based data and trading technology vendor Traderforce is building up its Asian presence and making investments in new infrastructure, offices and additional staff to support growing demand for its products in the region.
Quant House Plans Asia Network
French low-latency data vendor Quant House is planning to expand its proprietary fiber-optic network into Asia next year, to support datafeed collection from more exchange data sources in the region.
GL Preps for LSE ‘Performance Channels’ as ASP Demand Spikes
French data and trading technology vendor GL Trade will sign up to connect to Performance Channels, the new 100-megabit low-latency data service being launched next year by the London Stock Exchange.
FTSE Deploys Caplin-Kalahari Data Platform
Index provider FTSE has deployed a data backbone from Caplin Systems and calculation engine from Kalahari to help support the production of its bond and gilt index data, officials say.
FTSE Deploys Caplin-Kalahari Data Platform
Index provider FTSE has deployed a data backbone from Caplin Systems and calculation engine from Kalahari to help support the production of its bond and gilt index data, officials say.
Tenfore Grows Far East Feeds
UK-based data vendor Tenfore Systems is preparing to roll out data from a number of new Asian sources onto its consolidated datafeed, to expand its coverage of the region, officials say.
HVB, Unicredit Consolidate Data Functions
The market data groups of Italian bank Unicredit, Bank Austria and Germany’s Hypovereinsbank (HVB) are being consolidated into HVB’s head office in Munich, following the merger of the Unicredit and HVB groups in 2005.
Traderforce Bolsters Asian Presence
Paris-based data and trading technology vendor Traderforce is building up its Asian presence and making investments in new infrastructure, offices and additional staff to support growing demand for its products in the region.
LiquidityHub Launches Pricing Platform
LiquidityHub, an electronic platform formed by a consortium of 16 banks for facilitating price discovery for fixed-income instruments, will go live with its first phase of operations today, Monday Oct. 22, providing market data on euro-denominated…
LSE Manages Latency with Corvil
LONDON-The London Stock Exchange announced today, Oct. 22, that it has adopted the network latency monitoring platform from networking tool vendor Corvil to minimize latency on the LSE's TradElect trading platform, vendor officials tell DWT .
Deutsche Börse Preps FAST Eurex Feed
Deutsche Börse will launch a new low-latency datafeed for vendors and non-member trading firms on Dec. 3 that will also provide increased market depth data, following the launch of a new trading API being rolled out by the exchange's Eurex derivatives…
LiquidityHub Goes Live
LONDON-After numerous delays, the bank consortium-backed fixed-income pricing aggregator LiquidityHub has gone live today, Oct. 22, DWT has learned.
LIM Debuts XMIM Options Tester
Chicago-based derivatives data vendor Logical Information Machines will this week release XMIM Options Tester, a tool for back-testing the performance of equity and futures options strategies using historical end-of-day bid-and-ask price data to create…
NeoNet Connects to Chi-X
Direct market access (DMA) agency broker and trading technology provider NeoNet's clients will now have access to Chi-X, Instinet's pan-European alternative trading system (ATS), NeoNet officials announced today, Oct. 22. NeoNet is currently connected to…
Boat Floats Free Trial, Delayed Data
Trade reporting facility Boat (formerly known as Project Boat), is offering a two-month free trial of its real-time quote-and-trade datafeed between its launch on Nov. 1 until the end of this year, and has decided to also provide a delayed feed of data.
Preparing the ICE Storm
In the past year, the IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) has acquired the Winnipeg Commodities Exchange (WCE), opened its own European clearinghouse and has been growing like a snowball rolling down hill.
Panel: Reg NMS Impact Exaggerated
Market forces are responsible for soaring increases in market data traffic, rather than the conventional wisdom that Reg NMS is driving data growth, according to an industry panel organized by Interactive Data in New York last week
EquityFeed Preps Screening Tools
Montreal-based micro-cap data vendor EquityFeed is planning to add an industry sector data analysis tool and an earnings calendar to its products as part of a software upgrade scheduled for Nov. 1, officials tell Inside Market Data .
CodeStreet Plans Open-Source Scenario Library
New York-based financial software provider CodeStreet plans to develop an open-source library to make it easier for business users to develop and test applications by running market data scenarios using its Market Data Works testing suite, which the…
FIX Protocol Makes Gains in FX
LONDON-The FIX messaging protocol is gaining ground in the foreign exchange (FX) market, according to panelists who spoke at an event held by the FIX Protocol Ltd. (FPL) late last week.