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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Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) has released plans to introduce a co-location service at its data centre to provide low latency access to investors and trading participants. According to the exchange, it will also introduce two new trading systems to improve its IT systems and increase the speed of trading systems.

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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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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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Exegy has included financial futures as part of its Exegy Ticker Plant package, launched a feed handler for the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), and has expanded its co-location capabilities to four US trading venues and at London Docklands.

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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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CQG, the analytics and trade routing platform for global electronically-traded futures markets, has connected its hosted order routing gateways to the Liffe Connect trading system via NYSE Euronext Liffe’s new 100Mbps High Speed Access line (Low-Latency.com, 19 December 2007).

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Bats Trading, operator of the Bats ECN, is now available via Savvis Exchange Express, which provides low latency metro Ethernet network access to the Bats Exchange located in Savvis’ New York area data centre. Bats also participates in Savvis’ Proximity Hosting environment in Savvis’ New York area data centre. Savvis Proximity Hosting provides hedge funds and the automated trading community with a low latency environment for market data and trade execution by securely hosting their application servers in Savvis’ data centre that is in close proximity to the order matching engines of major exchanges and ECNs.

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Portware, provider of global, broker-neutral, multi-asset trading solutions, has integrated with direct access broker/dealer Genesis Securities. Genesis’ has become a certified destination within Portware’s algorithmic trading platform, allowing Portware’s clients to take advantage of Genesis’ high speed, low latency execution capabilities, integrated market data and co-location Data Center.

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Turquoise, the multilateral trading facility established by nine European investment banks, has chosen BT for secure hosting services and low latency connectivity. By working with BT, Turquoise will be able to offer its users fast, direct access to the trading platform and the option to co-locate their trading engines with BT to achieve near-zero trading latency, it says. Turquoise will be hosted in two of BT’s data centres in the London area. The data centres will be connected by BT’s low latency technology, enabling synchronous data transfer. Members of Turquoise will be able to access the trading facility via a choice of connectivity options including the Radianz Shared Market Infrastructure.

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Bats Trading, operator of the Bats ECN, is now available via Savvis Exchange Express, which provides low latency metro Ethernet network access to the Bats trading platform. Bats also participates in Savvis’ Proximity Hosting environment in Savvis’ New York area data centre. Savvis Proximity Hosting provides hedge funds and the automated trading community with a low latency environment for market data and trade execution by hosting their application servers in Savvis’ data centre in close proximity to the order matching engines of major exchanges and ECNs.

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Interactive Data Corporation’s new European ticker plant for its Real-Time Services business has gone live. The new ticker plant provides latency gains of at least 80 milliseconds, significantly reducing delivery times for European consumers of European real-time data distributed by PlusFeed, Interactive Data’s low latency, consolidated global datafeed. All European customers receiving PlusFeed will benefit from this enhancement, the vendor says. Interactive Data is also announcing the availability of a low latency co-location facility. Customers in Europe will have the option of co-locating their applications in data centres close to the new London-based ticker plant to take advantage of the low latency delivery of European data.

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The International Securities Exchange (ISE) has selected BT to provide its customers with low latency connectivity and hosting for trade execution and market data. BT is opening access to its New York area hosting facility to the ISE, which gives ISE customers the option to co-locate their trading engines with BT to achieve near-zero trading latencies. Through a combination of Radianz Proximity Solution and a customised implementation of Radianz Ultra Access, BT is enabling market participants outside the New York metro area to enhance their advanced trading strategies and use one of the fastest connections to the ISE, it says.

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Fixnetix, provider of ultra low latency market data, has signed an agreement with Chi-X Europe to deliver market data and trading connectivity. Fixnetix has connected to the Chi-X matching engine with a round trip latency as low as 400 microseconds, it says. Fixnetix can deliver data in multiple formats with sub-millisecond data transformation if required, and deliver these services on the wire for ease of integration. Whether co-located using Fixnetix’s Source hosting partners or connecting via the company’s Ethernet and Fibre networks, Fixnetix reckons it ensures financial institutions can directly access both Chi-X and any competing European exchange gateway utilising Fixnetix ultra low latency point to point network connectivity.

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As first reported by Low-Latency.com’s sister portal AsiaMarketsIT.com last year (www.AsiaMarketsIT.com, June 1 2007), BT will provide the new Australian ECN AXE with connectivity and hosting through Radianz Proximity Solution, for electronic trading access and low latency market data distribution. Firms that trade on AXE will have the option to host their trading engines at a BT hosting facility to achieve the lowest execution time and avoid the natural latency that occurs when trading over distance. AXE joins nearly 50 execution venues that are already connected to the Radianz Shared Market Infrastructure.

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Equinix, provider of network-neutral data centres and internet exchange services, has extended its Financial eXchange community in Europe with the addition of Chi-X Europe. Launched to help institutional investors achieve ultra low latency execution, Chi-X Europe is an order-driven pan-European alternative trading system. It will take advantage of Equinix’s premium data centre services and Financial eXchange approach to ensure the optimum performance and ultra low latency response times for its solution, according to Equinix. Chi-X Europe will join more than 40 other European customers that have already relocated their systems within Equinix’s network of Financial eXchange hubs to take advantage of the company’s proximity capabilities, the vendor claims.

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Interactive Data Corporation’s Real-Time Services business has expanded its geographical reach with a new point of presence (POP) located in Stockholm, Sweden. The new POP provides a local access point designed to provide Interactive Data’s Scandinavian client base with significantly improved performance, regardless of data volume or market conditions. It can also offer cost benefits as customers will be able to connect to the low latency PlusFeed service locally via leased line or co-location of equipment. The connectivity between Interactive Data’s core network and the new POP can allow the entire PlusFeed dataset - including extensive order book content - to be made available locally in Scandinavia, with additional headroom available for future growth in data volumes.

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Euronext and Liffe say their new high capacity trading services have been well received among their customers. Liffe has received orders from more than 60 customers for dual 100Mbps connectivity and orders from in excess of 20 customers for its purpose-built co-location facility, both services which will be available from Q2 2008. Euronext has received orders from more than 20 customers for dual 100Mbps connectivity available from January 2008 and its co-location offering will be made available to customers by the end of Q1 2008. The new 100Mbps broadband access will enable customers to benefit from high speed access to both market data and order entry on Euronext and Liffe markets, to match constantly increasing order flow and market data volumes.

Euronext News Release

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The International Securities Exchange has launched a colocation service, providing ultra low latency connectivity to ISE’s options and stock exchanges. With the colocation service, ISE member firms will be able to place their trading hardware in the same building as ISE’s data centre, which will facilitate network transit times of less than 200 microseconds.

ISE News Release

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Savvis has introduced Savvis Proximity Hosting, providing direct connectivity and low latency network access to five major exchanges and Electronic Communications Networks (ECNs) hosted in a Savvis data center near New York City. The exchanges and ECNs include the American Stock Exchange (Amex), the Philadelphia Stock Exchange (PHLX), and BATS Trading. In addition, the service provides connectivity to SFTI Access Points for NYSE and OPRA market data.

Savvis News Release

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