Trading Tech
eSignal Expands Weather Data, Corrections, Performance
The eSignal active trader workstation division of Interactive Data will this week release Version 10.1 of its flagship eSignal product, with new content additions and enhancements that improve the speed and throughput of the system, officials tell Inside…
Nasdaq Expands Market Replay Tool
Nasdaq OMX will next month unveil version 2.0 of its Market Replay tool for analyzing historical data by replaying quoting activity, with the addition of trade data and activity on other markets.
Kx Retires 32-bit Kdb+ Software
Tick database and complex event processing software vendor Kx Systems is retiring support for a 32-bit version of its Kdb+ tick database in response to rising market data volumes that are forcing clients to migrate to 64-bit technologies with greater in…
FPL Eyes Exotic Options in SP2
NEW YORK-Exotic options traders can expect to see a little added connectivity support as FIX Protocol Ltd. (FPL) plans to release its second service pack for FIX 5.0 in early 2009, officials tell DWT .
LSE to Double TradElect Capacity
LONDON-The London Stock Exchange (LSE) is set to double the messaging capacity of its TradElect platform to 10,000 messages per second by September and to 20,000 messages per second in October, say exchange officials.
ITG Aims for a Global Triton
NEW YORK-Agency brokerage and crossing network provider Investment Technology Group (ITG) plans to deliver a global version of its Triton execution management system (EMS) sometime in the second half of this year, DWT has learned.
IDX Preps for X-stream Launch
JAKARTA-The Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) is set to have a new X-stream multi-product trading system from exchange operator and technology provider Nasdaq OMX in production by Dec. 1, IDX officials tell DWT .
Sales Traders Here to Stay
NEW YORK & LONDON-Although the use of sales traders across European markets will continue to decline, the belief that the European sales trader is no longer in wide use is unfounded, according to recently published Tabb Group research.
GT Software to Launch Ivory Update
ATLANTA-Service-oriented architecture (SOA) software developer GT Software plans to release version 4.0 of its SOA development environment for mainframes, Ivory Service Architect, later this week.
SocGen Debuts European SOR
LONDON-Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking (SocGen CIB) has gone live with order management system (OMS) and market data provider Fidessa's smart order routing technology in Europe, officials announced today, June 23.
NYSE Euronext Set for Specialist Change
NEW YORK-In preparation for a potential rule change by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that will transform New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) floor specialists into designated market-makers (DMMs), NYSE plans to roll out a new trading…
BT Readies 'Shared' Ultra-Proximity Data
BT Global Financial Services is preparing to launch a new addition to its Radianz suite of network and hosting services, dubbed Radianz Ultra Shared, that combines elements of the vendor's existing low-latency exchange connectivity and proximity hosting…
Where Do Old Acronyms Go to Die?
It's remarkable what you find when you start packing up to move offices. I recently uncovered a cache of old articles circa 2003 heralding the triumphant return of straight-through processing (STP) after the implosion of the Global Straight Trough…
Boston Options Exchange Readies Blackbox Changes
NEW YORK-Operators of the Boston Options Exchange (BOX) plan to entice more black-box and algorithmic traders to the options exchange by increasing its trade messaging performance three- to four-fold by December, say exchange officials.
Blocks Opens Platform to Client Data
Durham, NC-based stock market analysis software vendor Worden Brothers plans to open up its Blocks visualization tool later this year, to enable clients to incorporate their own proprietary or internal datasets into Blocks' analytics, officials tell…
Efficiency Reaps Rewards for BarCap
By implementing a new operating model for the firm's global IT organization, Barclays Capital (BarCap) saved $60 million in expenses through 2007. Waters reporter Emily Fraser sits down with Richard Greenbaum, managing director, head of global IT…
Equinix Bolsters Slough Datacenter Community
Hosting service provider Equinix is building up a community of banks, market operators and service providers in its newly renovated Slough datacenter, which it acquired in 2007, officials tell Inside Market Data .
SIFMA 2008: Vendors Broaden Services, Appeal
This year's SIFMA Technology Management Conference and Exhibition saw data vendors and technology providers concentrate on expanding the breadth of their services to appeal to new, different user bases.
Firms Seek Lower Latency in Derivatives Markets
Though latency continues to be a priority for participants in Europe's electronic exchange-traded derivatives markets, economic and physical limitations are making it more difficult for firms to achieve significant gains over their competition, according…
Reliance Preps Global Expansion
Ethernet provider Reliance Globalcom, a division of Indian telecoms vendor Reliance Communications, is preparing to roll out a range of new services and looking toward expanding globally, officials say.
StreamBase Relaunches NewsScope App
Complex event processing software vendor StreamBase Systems will later this summer release an update to its StreamBase Reuters Edition development framework for building applications using Reuters data, featuring a new adaptor that enables applications…
Credit Crunch Drives HPC
NEW YORK-With the credit crunch tightening, the demand for high-performance computing (HPC) has been growing at a dramatic rate across the enterprise within the capital markets, say the authors of recent Microsoft-sponsored survey by Washington, D.C…