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Nasdaq OMX Extends High-Frequency Inet Trading Platform Across the Nordics and Baltics

Nasdaq OMX went live with its next-generation Inet trading platform across seven Nordic and Baltic equity exchanges last week, claiming that increasing trade volumes in the new high-frequency environment would compensate for liquidity fragmentation caused by market participants adopting the technologies that will allow them to access not only Inet, but also alternative trading systems.

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22 Feb 2010

Toronto Execution Venues Kickoff 2010 with Latency Focus

Latency - and minimising it - isn’t just a focus among liquidity venues in the New York metro area. North of the border, recent developments at TMX Group and Chi-X Canada demonstrate efforts to make those markets more competitive in what’s becoming a global marketplace.

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19 Jan 2010

Turquoise Acquisition to Speed LSE Dark Liquidity Deployment

The combination of the London Stock Exchange’s Baikal dark liquidity initiative with Turquoise – as envisaged by the LSE and the latter’s investment bank shareholders – will likely lean heavily on Turquoise’s existing dark pool platform and related third-party supplier capabilities, at least in the short term.

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15 Jan 2010

TSE’s Arrowhead Goes Live Without Hitch, Paving Way for High Frequency Trading in Japan

According to plan, the Tokyo Stock Exchange went live January 4 with its new Arrowhead matching engine, with no technical issues. Arrowhead’s arrival was heralded as the catalyst for a new era of high frequency trading in the Japanese marketplace, but that didn’t prevent market commentators from pointing out that the new platform’s performance lags that of leading-edge alternative trading systems.

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08 Jan 2010

LSE TradElect Outage Sparks ‘Auction Mode’ Criticism

Despite vociferous protests from rival multilateral trading facilities (MTFs), it appears that the London Stock Exchange was within its rights to place its marketplace in temporary auction mode late last month, when its TradElect platform suffered yet another technical hitch. Chief among the complainants was Chi-X Europe, which criticised the LSE’s decision in a detailed announcement to the marketplace.

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07 Dec 2009

Chi-X Europe Slams LSE ‘Auction’ Decision

Chi-X Europe criticised the London Stock Exchange’s decision to put it’s markets in auction mode following its latest platform outage.

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26 Nov 2009

Cinnober Latency Paper Outlines Issues of Measurement

This month’s release by Cinnober Financial Technology of a white paper discussing the issues relating to latency measurement progresses the ongoing debate on measurement in the face of growing marketplace acceptance of low-latency liquidity access. For Cinnober, the paper is an attempt to shed light on its own methodology for measuring the latency of its exchange trading platform in the hopes of increasing transparency around what it sees as an oblique subject.

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20 Nov 2009

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Brady Acquires Viveo Switzerland to Extend its Reach in Commodities Markets

Clive Triance Moves to Penson from Nomura Instinet Europe

ALGO Technologies Launches Next Generation Trading Technology Names Hirander Misra as CEO and Howard Morgan as Chairman

Verticlear Launches with Offices in Irvine, CA and Toronto

SmartPool Launches "MatchView" Liquidity Discovery Tool to Improve Visibility of European Dark Trading

AboveNet Launches Low Latency TransAtlantic Connectivity

Cinnober Radically Reduces Latency with TRADExpress Trading System Version 8

RTS Realtime Systems Introduces First Phase of Technology Initiative to Further Reduce Latency

Brady Announces 33% Growth in Sales

Liquidnet Appoints New Head of Trading Desk

Bursa Malaysia Derivatives Selects Patsystems to Provide OMS for Derivatives Trading

Kinetic Derivatives Selects Orc to Support Trading Operations

SunGard Launches New Derivatives Stream Gateways for SGX and EDX

GAIN Capital Partners with StreamBase to Extend FX ECN for High-Frequency Trading Algorithms

Options IT Adds Industry Veteran Richard Burke to its U.S. Sales Team

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