Messaging
Markit Signs Options to Collaboration Services
Infrastructure-as-a-service provider Options has integrated federation and directory elements of Markit's Collaboration Services──including the Markit Directory "phone book" of validated identity and contact data, and the Federated Chat platform──into…
Opening Cross: Enterprise Messaging to Enterprise Management—It’s About Broadening Appeal
Pity my colleagues in London: Last Tuesday, workmen severed an ISDN cable in the street outside our office, cutting off all internet, phone, email and server access. Then on Wednesday, an explosion at an adjacent power sub-station forced a building…
Jefferies Joins Markit Collaboration Services Messaging Network
Investment bank Jefferies has joined Markit Collaboration Services, the open messaging network initiative developed by data vendor Markit that allows financial professionals to communicate and share information across communication platforms.
FX ECN Spotex Taps Solace for Data Messaging
Spotex, a foreign exchange trading ECN that launched in June, has confirmed it is using Ottawa-based hardware messaging appliance vendor Solace Systems' routing technologies to provide low-latency messaging for price and trade data between trading…
Markit Eyes Federated Chat Integration Capabilities
Markit is building out the integration services component of its Collaboration Services initiative, an open messaging network for financial professionals to communicate and share information across any messaging platform.
Korea Exchange Taps Solace Appliances
The Korea Exchange is to roll out Ottawa-based hardware-based messaging provider Solace Systems' appliances as the data delivery infrastructure for its upcoming Exture+ next-generation, low-latency trading platform for equities, bonds and derivatives,…
Markit Confirms Federated Chat Partners
Data vendor Markit has named Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Credit Suisse, Barclays, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, and GFI Group as official partners in its Federated Chat initiative, joining Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Thomson Reuters,…
Burning Issues: Could an Instant Message Be Worth a Thousand Bloomberg Terminals?
Max Bowie takes a well earned vacation this week, leaving Faye Kilburn to discuss Markit's Open Federated Chat, a potential alternative to Bloomberg's Instant messenger
Rai Expands Network Monitoring Tool
Broader protocol support will help firms monitor and avoid unusual multicast message activity.
Appliance Acceptance, Growth Drives Solace Sales Staffing Spree
Vendor boosts sales and engineering groups worldwide with new hires, reflecting takeup of its messaging appliance technologies
FIX Protocol Ltd. Expands Risk Control Guidelines for Trade Messaging
The industry group adds recommendations for futures and options derivatives and directions on effective control for paused orders, among other guidelines.