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Orc Plans Low-Latency Europe, Asia Market Data Connectivity
Swedish trading technology vendor Orc Software is planning to set up co-location facilities at exchanges in Europe and Asia, to provide low-latency market data to clients of the vendor's hosted Orc Liquidator algorithmic trading engine.
OMX Prepares OTC Reporting Utility
Nordic exchange group and technology provider OMX will next week begin testing a new trade reporting service to help firms take advantage of changes to over-the-counter trade reporting requirements under the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive,…
SEC OKs Nasdaq Portal Despite Data Concerns
US regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission last week approved the launch of Nasdaq's Portal Market Trading System for Rule-144a securities, despite concerns raised by industry association the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association…
Perfect Info Adds Indexing Tool for Sub-Prime Exposure
UK-based data vendor Perfect Information has launched a new indexing category within its Perfect Debt archive of fixed-income prospectuses and pricing supplements to help users search for collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) and collateralized loan…
ICE Wins Nymex Data Suit
The New York Mercantile Exchange last week expressed disappointment at the Second Circuit Court of Appeals' dismissal of its long-running lawsuit against the IntercontinentalExchange over use of Nymex price data.
Tocom Raises Data Distribution Frequency
The Tokyo Commodity Exchange has increased the frequency of its market data distribution in response to market forces and client demand, reducing the interval at which it delivers snapshot prices via its member terminals from three seconds to one second.
NYSE Glitch Delays OpenBook
The New York Stock Exchange's OpenBook feed of real-time NYSE limit order book data experienced disruption and delays for more than an hour last Tuesday morning, July 31, as a result of an undisclosed software issue.
Fidessa Readies US Ticker Plant Upgrade
UK-based data and trading software vendor Fidessa is preparing to upgrade its US ticker plant to include enhanced data on US exchanges and new feeds from the Toronto Stock Exchange, officials tell Inside Market Data .
Dow Jones Talks Up News Corp. Buy
News Corp. chairman and chief executive Rupert Murdoch is expected to outline his company's plans for the businesses of Dow Jones at News Corp.'s financial results presentation this week, following the media empire's $5.6 billion acquisition of Dow Jones…
Opra Mandates FAST Migration
The Options Price Reporting Authority will switch off its existing ASCII-format datafeed and distribute consolidated US options data using only the FAST (FIX Adapted for Streaming data) protocol as of Jan. 28 next year, to provide additional bandwidth to…
SocGen Targets U.S. Traders
Hometown audiences can be some of the toughest crowds to please. That has not stopped Société Générale's New York-based John Shaw, the newly minted leader of the bank's program and electronic trading services business in the U.S. DWT editor Rob Daly sits…
UBS Rolls Out Algo Strategy for Commodities
LONDON—UBS Investment Bank has launched its UBS Commodities Portfolio Algorithmic Strategy System (Comm-Pass), a portfolio-based algorithmic strategy that exploits momentum in the commodity markets to generate returns through automated long and short…
Nasdaq Preps 144A Trading Portal
NEW YORK—After receiving approval from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Nasdaq Stock Market announced last week plans to launch a new online negotiating and trading venue for Rule 144A securities, dubbed Portal, on Aug. 15, say…
Paper: Japan to See IT Spending Spike
TOKYO—Japan's economic recovery is spurring renewed IT investment in the country's securities industry, with firms expected to increase their IT spending by 7.5 percent—or $2.8 billion—by the fiscal year ending March 2008, concludes a recently published…
Insinger Taps Fidessa for Derivatives
LONDON—Anglo-Dutch bank Insinger de Beaufort will be replacing its legacy third-party derivatives trading platform with a multi-asset trading system from London-based trading system vendor Fidessa, DWT has learned.
Orc Software Debuts Hosted Algorithms
NEW YORK—Swedish trading platform vendor Orc Software has launched Orc Liquidator Hosted, an exchange co-located, fully hosted algorithmic trading solution, which aids in the quick deployment of derivatives trading algorithms while providing low-latency…
NYSE Euronext Slashes Messaging Latency
NEW YORK—Over the past year, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) has cut average trade messaging latency in half, say NYSE Euronext officials.
Making the Most of Reference Data
Reference data management has mostly been treated as an operational issue in recent years, but investment managers are increasingly focusing on how reference data can benefit other areas of the business. Julia Schieffer reports