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NYSE Cuts Order-Execution Time to 5 Milliseconds from 105

A-Team Group — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:24:21 +0000

The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), a subsidiary of NYSE Euronext (NYX), has reduced the time it takes to execute an order to five milliseconds from 105 milliseconds, with the implementation of the new NYSE Super Display Book system (SDBK) for processing orders. As a result, NYSE customers are experiencing trade executions and reports [...]

RTS to Roll Out High-Speed Access to Xetra

A-Team Group — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:35:01 +0000

RTS Realtime Systems Group, a global trading solutions provider, announced today that it is one of the first major technology providers to globally roll out Deutsche Boerse’s new low latency, high-speed access interfaces, the Enhanced Transaction Solution and Enhanced Broadcast Solution, along with the new Xetra® Release 10.0. Deutsche Boerse offers traders two new dedicated high-speed [...]

Co-Lo Services: Adoption Rises, Competition Increases

A-Team Group — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:18:47 +0000

While last week’s Sifma Technology Management Conference was down overall in terms of numbers of exhibitors, one segment had more of a presence compared to previous years: companies offering co-location (sometimes referred to as proximity) services. Joining show stalwarts like BT and Savvis, and recent comers such as Fixnetix, were names including CoreSite (formerly CRG [...]

ICF Systems Joins Atrium Network Extranet

A-Team Group — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:44:46 +0000

Atrium Network, provider of smarter connectivity for the financial community, today announced that ICF Systems AG, a full service German IT provider in the financial sector, has joined Atrium Network’s extranet community. ICF Systems is among a number of clients based in The Netherlands using Atrium Network to take advantage of its Amsterdam POP and to [...]

RTI Gears Up to Address DDS Market Growth

A-Team Group — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:18:55 +0000

Real-Time Innovations (RTI), The Real-Time Middleware Experts, today announced strategic enhancements to capitalize on growth for its Data Distribution Service (DDS) compliant middleware. RTI has established a Field Operations organization, which brings together all customer-facing functions: worldwide sales, professional services and customer support. Each team will be under the leadership of industry veteran, Curt Schacker. [...]

Equinix NY Area Data Centre To Host CBOE’s New All-Electronic “C2″ Exchange

A-Team Group — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:20:36 +0000

Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), a provider of global data centre services, today announced that Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE), the largest U.S. options exchange and creator of listed options, plans to locate electronic trading operations for its all-electronic exchange, currently known as “C2,” at the Equinix New York-4 (NY4) International Business Exchange (IBX) data centre [...]

Cinnober Discloses Latest Latency and Performance Benchmarks

A-Team Group — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:23:34 +0000

Performance benchmarks of the latest release of TRADExpress(TM) Trading System reveal outstanding low latency with an average response time of 286 microseconds, and throughput capacity of over 800 thousand quote updates per second in a setup with five matching engine partitions. Cinnober delivers TRADExpress Trading System and related solutions to exchanges, multilateral trading facilities, and [...]

Tbricks Connects To Xetra

A-Team Group — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:18:38 +0000

Tbricks, the provider of the leading edge algorithmic trading system, today announced that it has added Xetra to its growing list of native market connections. Tbricks is a comprehensive manual and automated trading system offering groundbreaking technology to the most ambitious proprietary trading professionals. Urs Rutschmann, COO of Tbricks, comments: “Tbricks beats any other system in terms [...]

Blog: This Year’s Sifma One of the Best

A-Team Group — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:01:34 +0000

I realise that might be a contrarian view. Speaking to many at last week’s show - The Sifma Technology Management conference & Exhibit is its full name - the main topic of conversation was how small it was, how empty it was. One veteran reckoned it reminded him of when it was hosted [...]

NYSE Euronext and Juniper Networks Announce Plans for Ultra-Low Latency Network for Global Trading Data Centers

A-Team Group — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:53:13 +0000

NYSE Euronext (NYX), the world’s most diverse exchange group, and Juniper Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: JNPR), the leader in high-performance networking, today announced the companies are working together to design a state-of-the-art, ultra-low latency core network for NYSE Euronext’s new consolidated global data centers. Located in the greater New York and London metropolitan areas, NYSE Euronext’s [...]

NYSE Technologies Launches Market Data Platform V5

A-Team Group — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:39:05 +0000

NYSE Technologies, the innovative commercial technology unit of NYSE Euronext, today announced the launch of its next generation market data infrastructure, NYSE Technologies’ Market Data Platform V5. This revolutionary ticker plant technology is designed specifically for high-volume and latency sensitive markets, delivering data in microseconds rather than milliseconds. It offers 10 times [...]

Issue 7: Low Latency - Are You Performing? Now Available For Download

A-Team Group — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:53:03 +0000

Issue 7 of A-Team Group’s contributed thought leadership quarterly Low Latency - Are You Performing? is now available for download. Low latency technologies continue to be deployed by the financial markets - driven by the need to adopt them simply to stay in the trading game, and hopefully win at it. But low latency covers a [...]

CFN Services Announces FiberSource Advisor for Financial Trading Firms

A-Team Group — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:33:43 +0000

No longer can a trader meet their low latency requirements by just collocating in the same facility as the exchanges. The exchanges are spread out now, and so is the market data essential to successful execution of trading strategies. Traders need to find the optimal combination of space and network configuration that is central to [...]

Hudson Fiber Network Launches Exchange Connect with Switch and Data Providing Sub-millisecond Access to the Financial Markets

A-Team Group — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:49:56 +0000

Switch and Data (NASDAQ: SDXC), a leading provider of network-neutral data center and Internet exchange services, announced today that Hudson Fiber Network (HFN) will launch its new Exchange Connect platform in Switch and Data’s North Bergen, NJ data center. With a guaranteed service level agreement (SLA) of 750 microseconds, HFN believes that its new Exchange [...]

Interactive Data Provides Real-Time Data for Aleri’s Range of Complex Event Processing

A-Team Group — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:38:57 +0000

Interactive Data Corporation (NYSE: IDC), a leading provider of financial market data, analytics and related solutions, today announced that its Real-Time Services business can now deliver its broad range of real-time global market data via Aleri’s high performance complex event processing (CEP) technology platform and related solutions. Interactive Data is supplying the data via PlusFeedSM, its [...]

StreamBase Connects to Twitter

A-Team Group — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:30:30 +0000

StreamBase Systems, a leading provider of Complex Event Processing (CEP) technology for Capital Markets and the Intelligence Community has announced that they have released connectivity to the Twitter social networking site. StreamBase’s Twitter adapter allows StreamBase applications to both ingest “Tweets” and to send out “Tweets” into the Twitter-sphere. StreamBase has developed the Twitter connectivity [...]

New IBM High-Speed Market Data Delivery Platform Gives Financial Firms an Edge in Electronic Trading

A-Team Group — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:26:27 +0000

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced expanded feed coverage and additional features for the WebSphere Front Office for Financial Markets platform designed to help financial firms efficiently handle enormous amounts of data from multiple, disparate sources and make electronic trading decisions based on this information more quickly than ever before. WebSphere Front Office for Financial Markets [...]

IBM Demonstrates Cloud Computing Solutions and Record-breaking Low Latency Messaging Performance at SIFMA 2009

A-Team Group — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:23:06 +0000

At the SIFMA Technology Management Conference & Exhibit in New York IBM (NYSE: IBM) will be demonstrating the record breaking performance of IBM WebSphere MQ Low Latency Messaging, a messaging transport that is highly optimized for the very high-volume, low-latency requirements of Financial Markets firms. IBM will also be showcasing a set of new cloud [...]

Direct Edge Standardizes on 29West Messaging for its Exchange Infrastructure

A-Team Group — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:03:31 +0000

29West, the market leader in high-performance, low-latency messaging solutions, today announced Direct Edge’s adoption of 29West’s Ultra Messaging(r) family of products as its enterprise-wide high-speed messaging platform. Direct Edge has experienced explosive growth in the last year, boosting its matched market share of U.S. equity trades from just under 5% in October 2008 to over 12.5% [...]

Deutsche Börse Launches News Data Feed for Algorithmic Trading

A-Team Group — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:17:57 +0000

Deutsche Börse Market Data & Analytics has launched the CEF alpha+® macro news feed in cooperation with the financial news agency Market News International (MNI). This ultrafast data feed supplies macroeconomic news relevant to trading directly from the sources in automated trading applications. The data is prepared for immediate processing by the applications. Banks [...]