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This Week: CME/IHS Markit, Bloomberg, OpenExchange, Equinix, and more
A summary of some of the past week’s financial technology news.
This Week: Azentio, TriOptima, Equinix, TNS, and more
A summary of some of the past week’s financial technology news.
Leveraging Interconnection and the Cloud for Faster, Smarter Business Decisions
How the Covid-19 pandemic accelerated the digital transformation and the move to cloud-based services for capital markets firms, and the extent to which such offerings will continue to find traction across the industry.
A Fireside Chat with Bill Ruvo (Equinix)
Victor Anderson chats to Equinix's Bill Ruvo about the firm's capital markets value proposition and the challenges it is helping to solve for its clients.
All roads lead to Bergamo: Euronext eyes new home for its tech
Market participants fear a “horrible” relocation project and more room for latency arbitrage should the exchange move its data center to Italy.
Asia Exchanges Lag in Matching-Engine Speed
Markets in Asia lack the speed and throughput of their US counterparts.
Avelacom Adds Third PoP in Tokyo
The new PoP will service clients looking to access Japan’s commodity and equity derivatives markets.
Avelacom Slashes London-Tokyo Latency in Push to Become ‘Leading Asia-Pac Player’
Officials say Avelacom's new route shaves 10 milliseconds off the current fastest option for connectivity between London and Tokyo, and still has scope for further improvement.
VMware Taps Equinix for Private Connectivity
The integration enables VMware's clients to tap into its services on Amazon's cloud using a private connection at multiple global locations.
Colt Taps NPL for Co-Lo Data, Trade Timing Info
The NPL timing data will help firms address regulatory time-synchronization requirements and competitive needs to avoid timing signal interference.
Screen Opens Singapore Datacenter to Host InfoMatch for Asia Clients
The Singapore facility will allow Screen to better serve InfoMatch clients in the region, as well as to expand the range of services it can offer locally.
Options Offers NYSE Integrated Feed in Co-Los
By making NYSE's Integrated Feed available via its managed connectivity platform, officials say the vendor now supports NYSE's entire suite of datafeeds.
MOEX, Fluent Partner for FX Connectivity
Fluent has signed a deal with the Moscow Exchange to deliver a turnkey solution to its institutional FX marketplace.
McKay Adds Milan, Zurich PoPs to Microwave Network
In addition to rolling out the new PoPs, McKay will deliver a fully microwave network to Zurich next year.
Spread Cuts NJ Wireless Latency
Spread officials say the wireless network offers the lowest latency and fastest data processing time of any wireless network between the datacenters.
McKay Adds LME Metals Data to QED
The metals data will be available over the QED service at datacenters in the UK, Europe, and the US.
Nasdaq Offers US Feeds from LD4 Datacenter
UK-based buy- and sell-side clients can now access Nasdaq’s US data products directly from the exchange through the Equinix LD4 datacenter.
AWS Taps Colt’s Hutchinson to Drive Financial Cloud Migrations
Hutchinson has previously worked at a variety of network, co-location and infrastructure providers, including Colt, Telx, Equinix, Level 3 and Savvis.
Brexit Brings Boom to Bankenviertel as Tech Firms Eye Frankfurt
Eurozone's financial capital seen as the big Brexit winner as tech vendors begin to follow banks in launching new Germany-based services
TNS Unveils Frankfurt Managed Hosting and Connectivity
TNS' new managed service in Frankfurt will provide local clients with access to co-location resources and connectivity via its global network.
Dow Jones Bows News Cross-Connect in Equinix NY Datacenters
Dow Jones is making the new multicast headline feed available via connection in Equinix's Secaucus, NJ datacenters.
BT Launches Radianz FX Express Network
BT's new network connects five FX hubs with a focus on reliability to meet demand from a growing number of buy-side firms entering the FX market.
FXecosystem Furthers Asia Expansion with Equinix HK PoP
The vendor already has a presence in Equinix's SG1 datacenter in Singapore.
Avelacom Shaves Latency Off ‘Flagship' London-Moscow Route
Market makers, hedge funds, brokers and investment banks will now be able to trade between London and Moscow faster than before.