Quanthouse has introduced connectivity to NYSE Euronext’s UTP platform, and upgraded capacity to a dual 1GB/second link, providing latencies of four milliseconds from London and 36.5 milliseconds from the US.

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Thomson Reuters has announced the beta release of direct low latency connectivity to NYSE Euronext’s Universal Trading Platform (UTP) via its RDF-Direct service, allowing customers to meet the schedule of Euronext Cash markets migration from the existing NSC trading system to the new UTP.

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Activ Financial has added real-time market data from Instinet’s CBX Japan trading platform to its Activ Content Platform. Clients can use the low-latency Activ Content Platform to channel data to a range of enterprise-wide applications.

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Dow Jones & Co. is to make its high-speed Elementized News Feed via Equinix Inc.’s low-latency Chicago-1 International Business Exchange (IBX) data centre. Beginning December 1, 2008, Dow Jones Elementized News Feed customers will get access to market-moving news delivered in milliseconds. Operating within Equinix’s Chicago financial ecosystem will drastically reduce latency by bringing customers within immediate proximity to the data source.

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Activ Financial, a provider of fully managed low-latency market data solutions, and Marco Polo Network, which provides trade order routing and services to emerging capital markets, will deploy a joint solution to enable high-frequency trading in the Brazilian markets.

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Global end-to-end systematic trading solutions provider Quanthouse has announced the launch of its sub-millisecond data feed-handler and direct market access connectivity to Turquoise Trading, the new MTF that launched on 26 September and signed up its first undisclosed customer.

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BATS Holdings’ European Markets division has selected Fixnetix’s sub-millisecond real-time data feed technology to source equities pricing for its pan-European multilateral trading facility set to launch late October/early November.

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This month’s bulletin from the Financial Information Forum (FIF) finds that OPRA was 11% higher than its previous record attained in July with 613,824 messages per second (mps). The current OPRA ceiling is 1,387,000 mps which will increase to 1,540,000 mps on January 6, 2009.

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Altera Corporation has announced that HPC Platform of Paris, France, has selected two members of the Stratix II FPGA family for use in its ultra-low latency system for market data processing, algorithmic trading and complex financial product valuation acceleration.

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Fixnetix has rolled out a sub-millisecond data feed connectivity to Turquoise, the multi-lateral trading facility established by nine leading European investment banks to deliver market data and trading connectivity.

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Datafeed and feed handing vendor Activ Financial and Marketcetera, developer of open source platforms for automated trading systems, today announced the availability of Activ’s real-time equity data on the Marketcetera automated trading platform. Hedge funds and other buyside firms can now have direct access to Activ’s high-performance, ultra-low-latency data feeds - in addition to other features including event processing and trading strategy development tools - on an open source platform.

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Activ Financial Inc. and Hanweck Associates LLC, have launched VoleraFeed, a high-performance, real-time options analytics service delivered on Activ Financial’s ultra-low-latency data platform.

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Aleri and Activ Financial are partnering to provide financial institutions with low-latency market data combined with real-time analysis. Activ and Aleri have integrated Aleri’s CEP platform with the Activ market data infrastructure, allowing customers to apply their own real-time analytics to the low-latency market data delivered by Activ, whether it’s via direct feeds or Activ’s hosted systems.

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IBM has acquired InfoDyne Corp., a provider of market data feed handling and integration software.

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Low latency networking solution provide Corvil, has installed 20 appliances globally for Deutsche Börse Systems (DBS), measuring latency between the DBS’s Frankfurt data centres and all Eurex access points worldwide.

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Capital Markets Consulting is incorporating Activ’s market data feeds into many of its customised client solutions, following a deal between the companies that aims to meet increasing demand for customised solutions in capital markets.

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Quanthouse, provider of end-to-end systematic trading solutions, has been selected by a continental European arbitrage trading firm Arbitragis for its Quantfeed ultra low latency market data feed solution.

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The International Securities Exchange’s (ISE’s) Depth of Market Feed for options is now available through PrecISE Trade, its proprietary front-end trading application. ISE’s Depth of Market Feed is a real-time data feed that provides the aggregated volume of all quotes and orders available at each of the top five price levels for options that trade on ISE. The Depth of Market Feed is delivered using the FIX FAST protocol.

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Reuters has launched a high-speed data feed that is directly connected to OMX Nordic Exchange’s full order book. Reuters Data Feed Direct allows professional investors and vendors to receive market data directly from the OMX trading system with the same low latency as members of the OMX Nordic Exchange. Reuters says it is the first vendor to offer this data feed, which provides market data for equity and related products. The data is derived from OMX’s low latency data feed based on Genium FIX that launched in November 2007. The new Reuters Data Feed Direct provides data to fuel algorithms, pricing engines and other latency sensitive applications.

OMX News Release

Technorati Tags: Reuters, OMX Nordic Exchange, Reuters Data Feed Direct, Genium FIX

Please excuse the headline … I wanted to be cute and grab some attention. When it comes to market data rates, OPRA - the Options Price Reporting Authority - makes the headlines that low latency vendors (and industry analysts) love to cite - because the numbers are so frighteningly big. The reality, though, is a bit different.
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