Gain Launches GTX ECN for FX; Leverages Forexster Platform

GTXGain Capital, best known for its retail Forex.com portal, is today launching GTX, a foreign exchange electronic communications network (ECN) aimed at the professional marketplace for FX trading, including financial institutions, hedge funds, CTAs, high frequency traders, broker/dealers and high net worth individuals. Gain is tapping technology from Bermuda-based Forexster to underpin the new initiative.

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19 Jan 2010
 
NYSE Euronext Selects AboveNet, Juniper To Link U.S., European Data Centres

Dark fibre network provider AboveNet has been selected by NYSE Euronext to connect NYSE Euronext’s new data centres in the New York and London areas. The data centres are currently under development in Mahwah, in Northern New Jersey, and in Basildon, Essex.

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04 Aug 2009
 
LSE Considers Future of TradElect Platform; MillenniumIT Waits in the Wings

Following a couple of weeks of rumour and intrigue, the received wisdom now appears to be that the London Stock Exchange is indeed considering the future of its TradElect trading platform, introduced with much fanfare as recently as 2007. With new CEO sweeping a broom through the corridors of St. Paul’s Churchyard, it appears that TradElect’s turnaround latency – at a once market-leading 3.7 milliseconds – can’t keep up with newcomers like Chi-X Europe and Bats Europe.

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04 Aug 2009
 
Chi-X Europe Boosts Matching Engine Performance

Pan European MTF Chi-X Europe has increased the capacity of it s core matching engine to handle 225,000 messages per second, with full redundancy. Chi-X Europe offers average internal latency of 350 microseconds and a co-location latency of 400 microseconds.

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22 Apr 2009
 
Instinet Europe Goes with BT Radianz for Proximity

European agency brokerage Instinet Europe has implemented BT’s Radianz Proximity hosting and extranet connectivity, in order to attain closer proximity to European exchanges and MTFs and access to a wide number of market participants via the Radianz Shared Market Infrastructure.

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22 Apr 2009
 
Turquoise Taps QuantHouse for European Equities Data

European MTF Turquoise has chosen QuantHouse to provide it with real time data from across the European equity markets.

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21 Apr 2009
 
Atrium Network Signs Activ Financial as First Exchange Ring Client

Connectivity provider Atrium Network has signed data vendor Activ Financial as the first client of its Exchange Ring service, which provides low latency access to European MTFs and exchanges.

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15 Apr 2009
 

 
 

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