Atrium Continues FX Expansion on Wave of North American, European Growth

Atrium Network’s addition of FXCM to its list of foreign exchange connections is part of the French connectivity provider’s ongoing expansion both in terms of asset class and geography. FXCM will use Atrium’s extranet to connect its North Bergen, New Jersey, data centre to Atrium points of presence (POPs) in the New York/New Jersey metro area.

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29 Jul 2010
 
Andrew’s Blog - High Performance and Transparency in Europe’s Exchange Sector

The autumn season of 2010 holds the promise of extreme exchange action in the European arena as all of the major incumbent exchanges proceed with major investments in their matching engine, data centre and connectivity infrastructures. Clearly, this has all come in response to the arrival of a glut of multilateral trading facilities (MTFs) since the launch of the most successful of them – Chi-X Europe – back in mid-2007.

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28 Jul 2010
 
Selerity Targets Prop, HFT Traders with Event Data Platform

Following the May hire of global head of sales Jeff Otten and the rounding out of content for its initial launch version, Selerity is reporting keen interest from proprietary trading shops and banks’ internal prop desks for its real-time event data service. The Jersey City, NJ-based company went live with version 1.0 of the Selerity Platform in March, and is targeting the high frequency trading space with a machine-readable feed of factor data.

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27 Jul 2010
 
Micex Turns to Nasdaq OMX for Market Data Compliance Services

Micex Group, operator of Moscow-based Micex, Russia’s largest stock exchange, has selected Nasdaq OMX to provide market data audit services.

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26 Jul 2010
 
Deutsche Börse Pushes Move to Lower Latency Trading Beyond 2011

Deutsche Börse Systems has expanded on its plans to bring together its Xetra and Eurex platforms to deliver low latency trading from a single data centre in Frankfurt, but says redeployment of the matching engines will not be achieved before the end of 2011.

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26 Jul 2010
 
NYSE Technologies Names Connectivity Providers for Basildon Liquidity Centre

NYSE Technologies has named Colt, euNetworks and Verizon as connectivity providers for co-location customers accessing NYSE Euronext’s European liquidity centre in Basildon, Essex. The trio will supply connectivity to NYSE Euronext’s Secure Financial Transactions Infrastructure (SFTI) access centres, enabling co-location customers to then use the NYSE Technologies’ SFTI Optic service to ensure low latency access to their racks in the liquidity centre.

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23 Jul 2010
 
CSI’s Openmarketdata.org, Hedgehogs.net Signal New Wave of Collaboration

Collaborative Software Initiative’s recent soft launch of Openmarketdata.org and the growing ambitions – and credibility – of ventures like Hedgehogs.net may be signalling that collaboration for financial markets applications and infrastructure is an idea whose time has finally come. While individual open-source providers – notably Marketcetera with its order management platform – have made inroads into specific areas of the business, CSI and Hedgehogs.net are taking the argument to the enterprise level, and may succeed in attracting high-level attention as a result.

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14 Jul 2010
 

 
 

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