A-Team Insight Exchange is a new event series for 2010, which will combine A-Team’s expertise in financial markets IT with thought leadership from world-class technology innovators and practical experience from financial market practitioners.
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.

















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