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Nascent asset manager Exclusive Quantitative Investment Management (EXQIM) has selected OneMarketData’s OneTick complex event processing (CEP) and database software to underpin quantitative strategy development and deployment in the US and European equities markets.
Openmarketdata.org - an initiative of the Collaborative Software Initiative (CSI) - has released a data feed handler for the Direct Edge Scratch feed. A community edition is available for free under an open source license, and at a cost for a commercially-supported enterprise edition.
Colt is opening network routes between London and Frankfurt, and Paris and Brussels, which it claims provide the lowest latency in the market and which are already attracting customers from trading firms. Leveraging optical fibre technology from California’s Infinera, the London to Frankfurt route offers latency of 4.22 milliseconds between endpoints at London’s Poplar Business Park and Schmidstrasse in Frankfurt. The Malakoff (Paris) to Anderlecht (Brussels) route operates at a latency of 2.65ms. Both will be open by the first week of September.
Frankfurt-based asset manager Lupus alpha is working with data centre service provider Interxion to optimise its critical IT applications and ensure low-latency connectivity for its institutional and retail investment strategies.
Institutional agency broker Rosenblatt Securities has deployed NYSE Technologies’ hosted SuperFeed market data service. Rosenblatt will use SuperFeed to power what it terms its “cloud-based ticker plant,” which serves as the basis of its transaction cost analysis and imbalance tracker.
City Lifeline, a London-based carrier-neutral co-location data centre, has secured Deutsche Börse as its largest customer in the financial markets. The firm is planning to push further into the sector, offering single site London co-location, connectivity provided by over 20 carriers and what it describes as ‘mid-market’ prices.
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