Following the tech blogs as we do, it’s been interesting to follow the smoke concerning the London Stock Exchange and the future of its TradElect system. Now it seems there’s some fire there, with the LSE acknowledging that it’s looking at the future of the platform, and how to keep the exchange in the low latency arms race that it competes in against traditional foes NYSE and Nasdaq, and upstarts like Bats and Chi-X.

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The addition of Marketcetera’s open-source, hosted order management platform to NYSE Technologies’ Secure Financial Transaction Infrastructure (SFTI) network represents an early step in a broader collaborative play by NYSE Technologies as it seeks to create a trading ecosystem based on its own and third-party partners’ capabilities.

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