Trading Tech
Liquidnet Targets Europe, Asia
NEW YORK-Once it gains enough critical liquidity in its European and Asian markets, New York-headquartered crossing network provider Liquidnet plans to expand its product offerings in those areas, DWT has learned.
Panel: European Market Will Consolidate
LONDON-Despite the growing number of new entrants in the post-Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (Mifid) landscape, in two or three years the European market will consolidate, according to industry observers.
Reliance, Quant House Partner for Feed Access
Ethernet provider Reliance Globalcom Services-previously known as Yipes Enterprise Services prior to its purchase last July by Indian telecoms vendor Reliance Communications-is to provide its clients with low-latency datafeeds as a result of an agreement…
Tick Data Targets Europe
Historical data provider Tick Data will this week announce an expansion of its historical tick database to include data from European equity markets, officials say.
BATS Readies European Feed Plans
US-based ECN and aspiring exchange BATS Trading is developing a free datafeed of European equities data that will accompany the launch of a European ECN later this year, officials say.
Solace Upgrades Messaging Appliance
Hardware-based messaging provider Solace Systems will this week unveil a new routing chassis and two new cards for network acceleration and topic routing focused on market data providers and financial institutions.
4th Story Introduces Blue Ridge
SAN FRANCISCO-Algorithmic trading software vendor 4th Story has released its algorithmic trading server, dubbed 4S. Blue Ridge, today, April 14.
Savvis to Host Bats MTF
LONDON-Europe's most recently announced multilateral trading facility (MTF), Bats Trading (Europe), announced that is has inked a deal with datacenter provider Savvis to host the MTF's production systems in Savvis' Docklands datacenter, DWT has learned.
Vhayu Takes Aim at Quants
Tick processing and complex event processing software vendor Vhayu will this week announce a new version of its Velocity tick capture engine, aimed at quantitative research analysts, officials say.
AgriCharts Unveils Workstations
AgriCharts, the commodities data arm of futures data vendor Barchart, has launched two new Web display terminals aimed at agricultural producers.
Overcoming Grid Challenges
With rapid changes in hardware and new third-party service offerings, firms looking to deploy and grow their grid computing environments face new and familiar challenges. DWT editor Rob Daly sits down with Jingwen Wang, vice president of products with…
Nyfix Acquires Fixcity
NEW YORK & LONDON-Global crossing network provider Nyfix has expanded its portfolio of offerings with its recent acquisition of indications of interest (IoIs) network provider Fixcity.
Swift Plans Managed Service
NEW YORK-Attendees of the Swift Operations Forum Americas 2008 in Midtown Manhattan were given a peak at three new services that bank messaging cooperative Swift plans to launch to help members manage their Swift connections.
Citi Takes Datacenter Green
LONDON-Without investing in leading-edge green technologies, Citi has managed to achieve a 20 percent energy savings for its new datacenter serving Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), say bank officials who spoke during a recent conference on the…
Merrill Lynch's Three Steps to a Global Grid
Creating a global compute grid is not an easy task, but traders at Merrill Lynch have been benefiting from the firm's global grid for the past year as they send analytics calculations across the wide area network (WAN) on a daily basis.
One Grid to Rule Them All?
If you do a quick term search on Google for "grid to rule them all," it returns 205 pages. If you search just on the term "grid computing," it returns another 4.88 million-in English alone.
SpryWare Launches Order Book Manager
Chicago-based low-latency data and ticker plant provider SpryWare has begun rolling out to clients a new order book management product, dubbed Depth Plus, which enables firms to more cost-effectively build market display applications, officials say.
Capital IQ Integrates FirstRain Company Data
The Capital IQ division of Standard & Poor's has integrated Web-sourced content links from buy-side search technology provider FirstRain into its research platform, to provide portfolio managers and buy-side research analysts with access to key…
Challenges, Opportunities in Volume Rises
The impact of algorithmic trading and new venues created in response to the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive is expected to generate a flood of new market data across Europe, but may result in more competitive markets and adoption of newer,…
Edgar Online Mulls XBRL Tags for Funds
Company filings and data provider Edgar Online is working on a project to apply XBRL (Extensible Business Reporting Language) tags to mutual fund information, to enable investors and asset managers to more easily compare information across multiple funds…
Activ Financial Builds London Hub for UK Exchange Data
Chicago-based low-latency data and ticker plant provider Activ Financial has set up a datacenter in London to locally collect direct feeds from UK exchanges, in preparation for a broader program of sourcing European low-latency data and targeting…
Bats ECN Lands in London
NEW YORK-Bats Trading, operator of U.S.-based exchange-in-waiting Bats ECN, plans to go into production with Europe's latest multilateral trading facility (MTF) by the fourth quarter, say Bats officials.
Townsend Analytics Targets Asia
NEW YORK-Execution management system (EMS) provider Townsend Analytics plans to announce this week that it has incorporated trading algorithms and other execution services from UBS for the Asian and Canadian markets into its RealTick EMS platform, DWT…