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TSE, NYSE Euronext Ramp Up Tech Alliance
TOKYO & NEW YORK—Global exchange operator NYSE Euronext plans to send a team of engineers to Tokyo to provide technical assistance to the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) as part of an memorandum of understanding that the two exchanges signed at the beginning…
Industry Preps for Rocky Mifid Launch
LONDON—With less than two months left before the E.U.'s Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (Mifid) comes into force, there is still a high level of uncertainty in the industry regarding implementation of the regulatory requirements, concluded…
AIB to Deploy Eurobase Gateway
LONDON—Allied Irish Bank (AIB) is in the midst of deploying Eurobase's Siena Gateway product to distribute foreign exchange (FX) rates within the bank's branch network, say vendor officials.
Fidessa Launches Mifid Suite
LONDON—Fidessa has today, Sept. 17, launched a suite of products and services to help broker-dealers meet requirements set forth by the E.U.'s Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (Mifid), vendor officials tell DWT .
Panel: Options Gaining on Equities Automation
NEW YORK—The equities options market is quickly catching up with the equities market in smart order routing and the adoption of trading algorithms, according to participants of a panel discussion hosted by agency brokerage BNY ConvergEx in midtown…
Analyst: U.S. Market Consolidation Inevitable
BOSTON—In the next two years, the U.S. equities market, which currently consists of 35 potential venues, is poised for a major consolidation, according to a recently published white paper from industry research firm Aite Group.
TheMarkets, InfoNgen Prep Search Tool
Bank consortium-owned research portal TheMarkets.com is incorporating Instant Information's InfoNgen filtering tool to allow clients to perform customized searches of broker research and Internet content, officials tell Inside Market Data .
Stanford Deploys Fidessa OMS
NEW YORK—Brokerage Stanford Group Co. has gone live with Fidessa's fully hosted trading platform as an order management system (OMS) for its U.S. operations, vendor officials tell DWT .
AMD Debuts Quad-Core Offering
NEW YORK—Processor maker Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is launching an industry-wide rollout of the quad-core version of its Opteron processor, dubbed Barcelona, today, Sept. 10, vendor officials tell DWT .
BayernLB Upgrades VWD Terminals
Germany's Bayerische Landesbank (BayernLB) is upgrading around 400 traders and staff in its private and retail banking departments to new data terminals from Frankfurt-based data vendor VWD, replacing the vendor's Realtime Concept 3 terminals, which it…
Interactive Readies Direct Feed Phase 2
Interactive Data's Real-Time Services division is making preparations for the second phase of its DirectPlus direct exchange feed service, developed in partnership with network provider BT Radianz, for rollout around the start of next year, officials…
Tenfore Continues Asian Expansion
UK-based data vendor Tenfore will this month go live with a number of new feeds from exchanges in Asia, and also plans to open an office in Hong Kong at the beginning of next year to provide local sales and support.
Thai Bourse, FTSE to Develop New Index Series
The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) is working with index provider FTSE to develop a new series of equity indexes for the Thai stock market that will make it easier to launch new exchange-traded products and will bring SET's indexes closer to…
Sources: InfoDyne Explores Options
Chicago-based ticker plant and low-latency technology provider InfoDyne Corp. has approached other vendors and investment houses in a bid to attract new investors or partners to help grow the company, according to sources familiar with the situation.
Beat Koch Departs Telekurs
Long-time Telekurs Financial executive Beat Koch has left the Swiss data vendor after more than 15 years at the company, Inside Market Data has learned.
CohesiveFT Deploys AMQP for Data, Preps FAST
Chicago-based integration provider Cohesive Flexible Technologies is working with broker-dealers and exchanges to implement the open-source Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) for routing streaming data within their organizations and to third…
BEA Launches Virtualization Pricing
SAN JOSE, Calif.—Middleware provider BEA Systems has released its new per-instance pricing model for enterprise Java virtualization last week, say vendor officials.
Calyon Rolls Out Etrali Turrets in Asia
HONG KONG & TOKYO—Global investment bank Calyon Capital Markets is in the midst of installing 400 Mach 3D turrets from Orange Business Services (OBS) Trading Solutions, née Etrali, across Asia, vendor officials tell DWT .
InfoReach Debuts Web-based EMS
NEW YORK—Financial trading software vendor InfoReach announced the release of its light-weight Web-based execution management system (EMS), dubbed BrokerReach, today, Sept. 10.
Hi-mtf Takes FastTrade Matching Platform
MILAN—The new fixed-income and equities multilateral trading facility (MTF) Hi-mtf plans to use the FastTrade (FT) matching platform from Pisa, Italy-based financial software vendor List Group in preparation for the MTF's October launch, vendor officials…