Trading Tech
Fire Shuts TD London Floor
LONDON-TD Securities shut down its London office on March 11 due to a nearby fire that ripped through an office block on Tabernacle Street in outskirts of the City of London.
RFQ-hub Evaluates Gateway Strategy
LONDON-Bank-backed request-for-quote (RFQ) trading platform provider RFQ-hub is in the process of determining how best to interact with its FIX gateway after recently joining the Fidessa network.
Ullink Implements FIXatdl Publishing System
PARIS-Trading platform and connectivity provider Ullink plans to announce enhancements to its Algorithm Management System (AMS) in conjunction with the launch of version 1.1 of the FIX Algorithmic Trading Definition Language (FIXatdl) at the upcoming FIX…
BOX Eyes April Datacenter Switchover
NEW YORK-The Boston Options Exchange (BOX) plans to go into production from its new Secaucus, N.J., datacenter facility on April 26, exchange officials tell DWT .
UBS to Join Dark MTF Club
LONDON-UBS Investment Bank recently announced plans to launch Europe's latest non-displayed multilateral trading facility (MTF), pending regulatory approval by the U.K.'s Financial Services Authority (FSA), according to bank officials.
Pink OTC to Launch Third Market
NEW YORK-Over-the-counter (OTC) securities market operator Pink OTC Markets is planning an April launch for a new market that trades companies registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), DWT has learned.
Solace Enlists TS-A for Latency Monitoring
Hardware-based middleware vendor Solace Systems has partnered with data consultancy and latency monitoring technology provider TS-Associates to offer mutual clients end-to-end latency monitoring of applications utilizing Solace's messaging fabric.
TipOff Gains Solace Support
NEW YORK-As a result of a mutual banking client's request to cut its latency, latency monitoring platform provider and consultancy TS-Associates is adding support for Solace Systems' hardware-based Unified Messaging Platform middleware to its TipOff…
CBOE Banks on Demutualization, IPO
CHICAGO-The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) expects to complete its planned demutualization and initial public offering (IPO) by the end of the second quarter, according to exchange officials.E
Verticlear Debuts Back-Office Trade Compression
IRVINE, CALIF.-Looking to the middle- and back-office needs of second- and third-tier Canadian broker-dealers, startup vendor Verticlear announced the availability of its portal-based Cross-Market Trade-Compression reporting tool today, March 15.
The Singletons
Regulators are pushing out new initiatives left, right and centre, and millions of dollars are spent complying with new requirements - some of which several data professionals claim there is little business reason for doing. The move to a single customer…
Bats Set to Enhance Sponsored Access
KANSAS CITY, MO.-Bats Global Markets is working on improvements to its sponsored access tools for its U.S.-based Bats Exchange, as well as its European multilateral trading facility (MTF) Bats Europe, according to Bats officials.
The Naked Truth
The 60-day feedback period allocated by the SEC to its proposed changes to the practice of sponsored access is almost up, and by the time this issue hits desks, ‘unfiltered’ access may be a thing of the past. But the real issue here is how brokers…
GTX Girds for Algo Trading Traffic
NEW YORK-Gain Capital, operator of the GTX foreign exchange (FX) ECN, expects to see an uptick in algorithmic trading as complex event processing (CEP) platform provider StreamBase Systems announced the availability of a GTX adapter for the vendor's CEP…
Fidessa Preps Toronto Datacenters to Meet Canada Demand
London-based market data and trading technology vendor Fidessa is in the early stages of setting up two datacenters in Toronto to meet demand for market data from its Canadian clients, and to provide a local connectivity hub for sourcing and distributing…
Exegy Taps 29West for Data Distribution
St. Louis, Mo.-based hardware ticker plant provider Exegy has integrated its ticker plant with Chicago-based 29West's LBM (Latency Busters Messaging) messaging middleware to create a combined low-latency data platform that can distribute data to…
Lowering the Bar to High-Frequency Trading
Low-latency trading infrastructure is a must for high-frequency trading, but the costs and knowledge required to optimize and maintain it have kept it out of the hands of most firms. DWT sits down with Dave Malik, director of solutions architecture in…
Lime Branches Out
The growth in high-frequency trading (HFT) is about to bear fruit for New York-based agency broker Lime Brokerage as HFT firms continue to sprout up across the industry.
Alpha ATS Set for Engine Update
TORONTO-Operators of Canadian alternative trading system (ATS) Alpha ATS plan to roll out the latest version of the TradExpress matching engine from exchange technology provider Cinnober sometime in the second half of the year, Alpha officials tell DWT .
Equinix Enlists West Highland for Co-Lo Support
Datacenter and co-location operator Equinix is to offer clients hosted within its facilities around the world a new option for remote support of their systems, provided by New York-based remote systems monitoring and support provider West Highland…
Liquidnet Canada Deploys Triton Link
TORONTO-Canadian alternative trading system (ATS) Liquidnet Canada has gone live with a link to agency broker ITG's Triton execution management system (EMS), giving Canadian traders yet another entry point to block liquidity, DWT has learned.
Fidessa Prepares New U.K. Datacenter
LONDON-Trading platform and market connectivity vendor Fidessa plans to move its U.K. operations into a new purpose-built datacenter later this year.
SunGard Expands Data Access Options
SunGard's Global Trading division has integrated market data feeds from French low- latency data vendor QuantHouse with its smart order-routing and algorithmic trading solutions, while SunGard's Fame business is releasing new capabilities to make it…