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RTS to Roll Out High-Speed Access to Xetra

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

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:27:09 +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 [...]

NASDAQ OMX Launches Market Replay Europe

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:18:07 +0000

The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:NDAQ) today announced the launch of Market Replay Europe, a powerful tool that enables market participants to replay and analyze European market activity in simulated real-time. NASDAQ Market Replay Europe helps brokers decrease MiFID compliance costs while enhancing customer service for their clientele. NASDAQ OMX Market Replay Europe is an [...]

FESE Brokers Tick Size Deal Among European Exchanges, MTFs

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:46:18 +0000

The agreement on tick size brokered yesterday by the Federation of European Securities Exchanges (FESE) between its exchange members and the key upstart multilateral trading facilities (MTFs) marks the latest step toward consistency of data emanating from European trading venues. Many believe consistency of data will level the playing field, and allow market participants enjoy [...]

Neonet Provides Nasdaq Omx with European Consolidated Market Data

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:10:42 +0000

Neonet, the global provider of agency brokerage services and trading technology, today announces that its European Consolidated Market Data powers NASDAQ OMX’s analysis tool Market Replay Europe. Market Replay Europe allows users to view data from major European execution venues at any point in time. The tool is powered by market data collected and presented [...]

Thomson Reuters and Jiji Press Join Forces to Serve the Japanese Commodities Marketplace

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:07:00 +0000

Thomson Reuters and Jiji Press today announced that they have teamed up to serve the growing Japanese commodities marketplace. The two companies have combined their respective commodities news, information and desktop capabilities to bring an unrivaled, single Japanese-language commodities service across Japan. The agreement brings together Jiji’s leading Japanese-language commodities service J-COM ? with the [...]

Oslo Børs changes the tick size for OBX shares

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:15:57 +0000

With effect from Monday 6 July, Oslo Børs will change the tick size for the shares of all 25 companies in the OBX index to NOK 0.01. This change is a consequence of reductions in tick sizes implemented by certain other marketplaces that offer trading in shares listed on Oslo Børs. Tick size refers to [...]

BondDesk Offers Treasury Pricing via Excel at $95/Month

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:46:53 +0000

BondDesk used the Sifma Technology Management Conference in New York last week to launch its first live market data offering – a real-time feed of Treasury prices – since installing Ben Fortunato to develop new data services that leverage the BondDesk ATS and affiliated capabilities (Market Data Insight, August 2008). BondDesk’s new Treasury feed provides [...]

RTI Gears Up to Address DDS Market Growth

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. [...]

RBC to Roll Out SunGard’s WealthStation Integrated Platform to Registered Investment Advisors and Correspondents

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:16:14 +0000

Clearing and custody providers RBC Correspondent Services and RBC Advisor Services, divisions of RBC Capital Markets Corporation will implement SunGard’s WealthStation to provide RBC’s correspondent firms and registered investment advisors (RIAs) with an integrated wealth management platform that enhances their ability to acquire, service and grow their client relationships. RBC will roll out the SunGard [...]

Xignite Launches Industry’s First Platform For On-Demand Market Data Distribution

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:27:50 +0000

Xignite, Inc., the leading cloud services provider of on-demand global financial market data and application components, today announced the release of XigniteOnDemand, the industry’s first platform for private-labeled delivery of market data through on-demand web services, marking a major industry innovation in the way market data is distributed. By taking advantage of XigniteOnDemand, exchanges, multilateral trading [...]

Blog: This Year’s Sifma One of the Best

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 Technologies Launches Market Data Platform V5

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 [...]

CFN Services Announces FiberSource Advisor for Financial Trading Firms

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 [...]

MARKET DATA PLATFORMS: Infrastructure to Handle Your Data Challenges

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 09:21:32 +0000

Download new 12-page white paper from the NYSE Technologies and A-Team Group An exponential expansion of market data volumes in recent years has been caused by the confluence of a number of technology and business drivers – from the emergence of electronic communication networks (ECNs) to the advent of smart order routing systems and algorithmic trading [...]

Pricing Partners Extends Significantly its Inflation Module with the Market Standard “BBK” Model

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:09:55 +0000

Pricing Partners, the independent valuation expert and a world leader in mathematical models and analytics for derivatives and structured products, announced today a successful extension of its inflation module with the release of the inflation market model referred to as the “BBK” model. Based on the quantitative work largely publicized by various publications co-written by [...]

Eikos Partners Teams With Kaazing to Deliver Cutting Edge Technology for Financial Services Organizations

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:05:02 +0000

Eikos Partners (www.eikospartners.net) a leading innovative business consulting and project-based technology services to large investment banks, hedge funds and asset management organizations and Kaazing Corporation, makers of real-time web acceleration technology, announced a partnership to collaborate on holistic application development, including the Microsoft Silverlight platform for financial technology customers. The alliance of the two organizations was [...]

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

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

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

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 [...]