Exchange Technologies
Toronto Stock Exchange Readies ATX
TORONTO—The Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) plans to roll out its Alternative Trade eXecution (ATX) trading platform by the end of August, say officials from TSX Group, operator of the exchange.
Chi-X Gains Industry Support
LONDON—Instinet alternative trading system (ATS) Chi-X is gaining traction in the European markets as more clients demand datafeeds from the pan-European multilateral trading facility (MTF), say vendor officials.
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…
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.
SWX, Virt-x Prep New Trading Platform
LONDON—SWX Swiss Exchange and Virt-x, its London-based securities exchange, are launching a trading platform based on SWX's X-Stream technology, to address the rising demand for algorithmic and direct market access (DMA) trading, say exchange officials.
Liffe Preps Liffe Connect Upgrade
LONDON—European derivatives exchange Liffe, formerly Euronext.liffe, plans to release new versions of its electronic trading platform, Liffe Connect, by the end of this year, DWT has learned.
OMX Set to Win Turquoise Contract
LONDON—Nordic stock exchange operator and technology provider OMX Group is in advanced negotiations to become the sole technology provider to the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (Mifid)-inspired multilateral trading facility (MTF) Project…
LSE, Borsa Italiana to Use TradElect
LONDON & MILAN—Officials from the London Stock Exchange (LSE) and Borsa Italiana announced last week that both bourses plan to standardize on the LSE’s TradElect trading platform after the two exchanges merge.
3D Markets Preps Options ATS
NEW HOPE, PA.—A new equities options alternative trading system (ATS) from start-up vendor 3D Markets is preparing to take flight, vendor officials tell DWT .
Amex Suffers Trading Outage
NEW YORK—Traders on the American Stock Exchange (Amex) experienced an interruption in equity and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) last Thursday as the exchange halted trading in both instruments at 12:20 p.m. local time.
Borsa Italiana Fights Heating with Blade Servers
MILAN—In a drive to increase trading performance and reduce cooling costs and the amount of server real estate required, Borsa Italiana has recently adopted AMD Opteron-powered Hewlett-Packard (HP) ProLiant BL blade servers, say exchange officials.
LSE Takes TradElect Live
LONDON—TradElect, the London Stock Exchange's (LSE's) new trading platform, has gone live today, June 18.
Monday Morning Blues for Euronext.liffe
LONDON—Trading on Euronext.liffe derivatives markets ground to a halt just 21 seconds into the trading day last Monday morning, as the exchange operator was forced to shut down markets for more than four hours because of a technical issue with its market…
HKEx Starts Final Network Migration
HONG KONG—The Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Ltd. (HKEx) has entered the final stages of its multi-year network consolidation project, as it will start moving batches of AMS/3 securities trading platform users to the exchange's new consolidated IP…
Turquoise Reveals Plans for Hybrid Model
LONDON—Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (Mifid)-inspired multilateral trading facility (MTF) Project Turquoise will offer a hybrid trading model—incorporating both displayed and non-displayed liquidity—once the bank-led consortium goes live…
Nasdaq Makes Tech Buy with OMX
NEW YORK—The Nasdaq Stock Market plans to acquire exchange operator and technology provider OMX Group in a deal valued at SEK25.1 billion ($3.7 billion) and re-brand the new entity Nasdaq OMX Group, officials from both exchanges announced on Friday.
Chi-X Plans for European Cross-Market Routing
LONDON—Chi-X, Instinet's Mifid-prompted multilateral trading facility (MTF), is planning to introduce U.S.-style onward routing to other exchanges and trading venues, officials tell sibling publication Inside Market Data .
NYSE, Nasdaq Prep New Crossing Sessions
NEW YORK—As part of a complete technology revamp, NYSE Euronext plans to launch a point-in-time crossing solution, dubbed MatchPoint, in July, pending approval by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), DWT has learned.
New York Exchanges Stumble
NEW YORK—The two largest U.S. stock exchanges experienced technical glitches late last week that led to quoting issues and delayed trade confirmations, DWT has learned.
Tehran Exchange to Debut New Systems
TEHRAN—As part of a plan to introduce financial- and commodity-based derivative trading, the Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE) is in process of implementing new pre-trade, trade and post-trade systems from exchange platform provider Atos Euronext Market…
Vendors Await 'Yes' Decision
LONDON—Project Yes, an initiative devised by a consortium of continental European banks to rival post-trade reporting utility Project Boat, is expected to name vendor partners that will provide data and technology support for its planned services by the…
Eurex, ISE to Keep Separate Platforms
NEW YORK—Eurex and the International Securities Exchange (ISE) announced last week that they have signed a definitive agreement under which Eurex will acquire ISE for approximately $2.8 billion in cash, but there are no plans to consolidate their…
Plus Markets to Upgrade Trading Technology
LONDON—Plus Markets Group is to embark on a £6.7 million ($13.3 million) upgrade to its trading technology involving Swedish exchange operator and technology provider OMX, Plus Markets officials say.