The Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) is planning to offer traders the ability to place their trading systems closer to its data centre via its co-location hosting service, which is due to launch in the last quarter of this year.

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The infrastructure supporting Singapore Exchange’s (SGX) proximity hosting service, which is being offered in partnership with Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel), will go fully operational this August and make SGX the first exchange in the Asia Pacific region to offer traders sub-millisecond access to its trading engines.

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The Singapore Stock Exchange (SGX) has joined Thomson Reuters’ global portfolio of ultra-low latency direct exchange interfaces. The Reuters Data feed Direct (RDFD) for equities listed on SGX will be available in July.

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US-based high-performance messaging middleware provider 29West and Intelligent Wave Inc (IWI), integration specialist in network technologies serving the financial services industry, have formed a technology and business partnership under which IWI will be providing 29West ultra-low latency solutions and technical support to securities firms and other financial institutions in Japan.

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Solace Systems, supplier of content networking solutions for enterprises and service providers, has signed an agreement with Actel, a strategy and technology consulting firm specialising in the Asia-Pacific and Middle East Africa regions, to resell Solace’s complete family of content networking products in China.

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US-based provider of distributed data management and virtualisation solutions GemStone Systems has opened an office in Tokyo, Japan and formed GemStone Systems KK. It has hired Takashi Kerakawachi, ex of Hitachi and BEA Systems Japan, as managing director of the new Japanese operation, with a brief to grow GemStone’s direct sales in Asia-Pacific and to enhance its strategic partnerships.

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Chicago-based 29West, a developer of high performance messaging software solutions, is establishing sales and support offices in Hong Kong and Beijing in conjunction with Tim Marsh and HK Mo, chairman and CEO respectively of Serisys Solutions. 29West’s Hong Kong presence opened on October 1, and a Tokyo operation will kick off in November.

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With BT announcing on June 21 that global buy side players trading through the Singapore Exchange (SGX) will now be able to utilise the low latency Radianz Proximity Solution, SGX is well positioned to tackle future challenges in catering for the 85 per cent of its customer base that originates from outside Singapore’s shores.

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US-based distributed data management solutions vendor GemStone Systems and Japan’s NIWS, a provider of business applications and services, have partnered to target the Japanese marketplace with GemFire Enterprise, the high-performance, distributed data caching platform that serves as the core component of the GemFire Enterprise Data Fabric. NIWS is already supporting one as yet unnamed Japanese securities house that has implemented the GemStone technology, and says another is seriously considering putting the system in.

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