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CNCB Rolls Out BT to Trading Floor
BEIJING—China CITIC Bank Corp. (CNCB) officials announced last week that the bank has deployed BT's converged trading communications solutions for its main trading floor in Beijing.
Paper: Industry Expects Mifid Fines
LONDON—Approximately 95 percent of surveyed firms affected by the E.U.'s Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (Mifid) expect to pay fines for non-compliance in the first quarter of 2008, according to recently published white paper.
RSJ: Liffe Algo Will Down System
PRAGUE & LONDON—Czech specialist brokerage RSJ Invest, one of the largest traders of interest-rate futures on the Liffe futures exchange, claims to have found inconsistencies in the exchange's new trade matching algorithm, Time Pro Rata. The algorithm…
Markit Transforms Emails to Quote Feeds
UK-based data and pricing vendor Markit last week unveiled Markit Quotes, a real-time parsing service that extracts dealer quotes and prices from emails sent by broker-dealers to their clients and reformats the information into real-time data.
VWD Switches FX Providers to Tenfore
German data vendor VWD Group is to replace foreign exchange data provided via its Internet- and terminal-based data products with new data sourced from UK-based Tenfore Systems' Tenforex feed, officials say.
MTS Enlists Fixnetix for Low-Latency Data
European fixed-income market operator MTS is to begin providing trading firms with low-latency access to its market data via a partnership with UK-based vendor Fixnetix, officials tell Inside Market Data .
CME Scales for CBOT Data Switch
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange is anticipating a 50 percent increase in market data volumes over its data platform and distribution network as a result of its acquisition of the Chicago Board of Trade, which finally agreed to a takeover by the CME last…
Euro Vendor Mergers Grab Market Share
The race to snap up market share beneath the proposed combination of Thomson and Reuters via consolidation has begun, with two mergers between French and Swiss data vendors unveiled within the space of five days—Telekurs Financial's purchase of French…
BATS Slashes Bandwidth with FAST Feed
BATS Trading, the Kansas City, Mo.-based ECN-turned-exchange hopeful, has rolled out a version of its PITCH depth of book datafeed that utilizes the FAST (FIX Adapted for Streaming data) protocol to provide clients with a low-bandwidth feed option to…
Penny Mitigation Strategies Slow Opra Volume Growth
The Options Price Reporting Authority last week announced its revised bandwidth projections for next year, revealing for the first time a decrease in the expected total number of messages per day, and a slight delay to the increases in bandwidth required…
Paper: Expand Cross-Asset OMS Support
NEW YORK—Trading systems that support cross-asset trading are no longer an option, but a necessity, concludes a recent white paper issued by consultancy Tabb Group.
Expert Hails Algo Trading
NEW YORK—The rise of algorithmic trading has significantly improved the health of the foreign exchange (FX) market, according to a keynote address at the FX Week USA congress last week.
Algorithms Gain Traction in FX
NEW YORK—Wider adoption of algorithmic trading within the foreign exchange (FX) markets is all but inevitable, according to panelists who spoke during last week's FX Week USA conference hosted by sibling publication FX Week .
On Point Debuts Options Sweep
NEW YORK—Agency brokerage On Point Executions plans to roll out its new smart order routing and liquidity matching engine for equities options, dubbed Sting, today, July 16, DWT has learned.
CME, CBOT Plan Common Platform for 2008
CHICAGO—After respective shareholders approved the acquisition of the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) last week, CME officials say they expect to complete the technology integration by the first half of 2008, DWT…
Switch Flaw Hampers NSX Trading
CHICAGO—Switching woes last Wednesday between the National Stock Exchange (NSX) and one of its major liquidity providers, which it declines to identify, resulted in the exchange handling one tenth of its average daily volume.
Panel: Mifid to Spur FIX Adoption
LONDON—The requirements of the E.U.'s Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (Mifid) should further the adoption of the FIX protocol as a standard for automated trading, according to panel participants who spoke during the quarterly FIX Protocol Ltd…
DealHub Preps Netting Initiative
NEW YORK—Post-trade technology vendor DealHub is planning to launch a pre-operations netting service for the interdealer market in order to manage back-office capacity constraints brought on by the rise in foreign exchange (FX) trading ticket volumes,…