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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This week’s acquisition of Cicada Corp. by Instinet’s Chi-X unit sets the stage for a mouthwatering competitive battle in global exchange technology services, pitching the new European MTF’s and Cicada’s trading and market data capabilities against those of Nasdaq OMX and NYSE Euronext Advanced Trading Solutions. It also begs the question of why the London Stock Exchange – as one of the world’s dominant exchanges – has been so quiet in leveraging its not inconsiderable technology investments into a discrete exchange systems business.

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Turquoise, the pan-European trading platform established by Europe’s leading investment banks, has deployed Corvil’s CorvilNet to monitor trading systems within its London-based market center. Corvil’s global client base encompasses leading market centers, investment banks, hedge funds and allied service providers. CorvilNet monitors, analyses and optimises electronic trading infrastructures against ultra low-latency objectives, encompassing market data feeds and order execution traffic.

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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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StreamBase Systems, a provider of complex event processing software (CEP), today announced that BNY ConvergEx Group, LLC, a leading provider of global agency brokerage and investment technology solutions, has deployed the StreamBase CEP platform for their US based electronic trading operations.

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Fixnetix, a provider of ultra-low latency market data, has announced sub-millisecond data feed connectivity to the new NASDAQ OMX Europe marketplace designed for the high performance of European blue chips.

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Equinix, a global provider of network-neutral data centres and Internet exchange services, and ICAP, an interdealer broker, has announced that ICAP will expand its premium interconnectivity i-Cross service to Equinix’s London-Slough (LD4) Internet Business Exchange (IBX) data centre. The service is expected to be available by the end of this year.

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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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Korean-based broker Samsung Futures has rolled out Orc Software’s Liquidity Access solution to increase its bandwidth capabilities and provide customers with high throughput connectivity to Korean markets. According to the derivatives trading and connectivity solution provider, the deal was booked in the third quarter of this year.

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Thomson Reuters has launched an ultra low latency direct feed to Turquoise, the multi-lateral trading facility (MTF) established by nine leading European investment banks to deliver market data and trading connectivity. The sub-millisecond direct exchange feed for Turquoise is in response to growing interest in multilateral trading facilities.

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The London Stock Exchange (LSE) has launched Exchange Hosting, a service providing high frequency algorithmic trading firms with what it claims is the “fastest access” to TradElect and Infolect, the LSE’s trading and information systems. As a result, end-to-end roundtrip execution latency on TradElect will be cut in half to three milliseconds by October 2008.

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Quanthouse, a provider of end-to-end systematic trading solutions, has upgraded its exchange capacity to Liffe to the latest 100Mbps connectivity leveraging collocation within the exchange to capture data. This will further reduce the time it takes for data to be captured by Quanthouse infrastructure and systems.

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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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Network services provider Savvis has opened an expanded data centre in Singapore, which will deliver a suite of managed IT infrastructure services and low latency access to the Singapore Exchange (SGX). According to the vendor, it opened the centre in response to customer demand for its integrated hosting and network services.

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Exchanges must improve latency performance, raise peak second transaction capacity, and boost transaction capacity through M&A deals to meet end user expectations and stay two steps ahead, a Cisco Exchanges Survey out this week contends. The study, titled ‘The Competitive Landscape for Global Exchanges: What Exchanges Must Do to Meet User Expectations’, maintains that the conflict between sell-side institutions and exchanges will intensify and the “environment for global exchanges shows no signs of becoming easier or less competitive.”

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Liffe’s dual 100Mbps connectivity and purpose-built co-location facility successfully went live on Monday 14 July, together offering a 50-fold increase in capacity which will give customers faster access to the Liffe’s markets

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Twelve founder subscribers have signed up to a new co-location service from the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) which promises to deliver the lucky dozen sub-millisecond access to the exchange’s ITS trading engine – vital for DMA and algorithmic trading.

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Chi-X Europe is to use Equinix as its primary and secondary provider of secure co-location and low-latency connectivity. Equinix – a network-neutral datacentres and Internet exchange services provider – will host Chi-X Europe’s matching engine at its primary datacentre in London and secondary datacentre in Frankfurt, providing participants the option of proximity-hosting their servers at either location.

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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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