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Thomson Reuters Launches 7500 New Indices FREE - A-Team Wire
AboveNet Launches Low Latency TransAtlantic Connectivity FREE - A-Team Wire
Thomson Reuters Extends CJC Support Deal for Hosting Solution
Thomson Reuters has extended its relationship with market data services specialist CJC to support the software functionality of its global hosting platform. CJC, which has been working with Thomson Reuters to provide software support for a more limited hosting solution in Europe and the US since 2007, will expand its role to cover the software functionality of the data centres supporting the global hosting service.
Thomson Reuters’ Frank Relocates to Hong Kong; More to Come?
As predicted, Thomson Reuters Markets has relocated Eric Frank, president of its Investment & Advisory business line, to its Hong Kong office, from New York. The move appears to lend credence to the idea that some kind of management reshuffle is under way at Thomson Reuters Markets, as suggested in A-Team editor-in-chief Andrew Delaney’s blog last week [see here].
Russell and NASDAQ OMX to Launch RussellTick FREE - A-Team Wire
29West and Exegy Collaborate for Enterprise Market Data Distribution
Messaging specialist 29West is collaborating with Exegy to integrate the latter’s hardware-accelerated ticker plant with its Latency Busters Messaging (LBM) middleware, in what the companies are pitching as a “strategic new offering” for enterprise-wide market data distribution. The tie-up provides 29West with new options for data feed handlers and Exegy with a high fan-out distribution mechanism, as well as a strong middleware partner.
Selerity Launches Ultra-Low-Latency, Machine-Readable Event Data Platform FREE - A-Team Wire
Options IT Adds Industry Veteran Richard Burke to its U.S. Sales Team FREE - A-Team Wire
29West and Exegy Announce Next Generation Market Data Distribution Solution FREE - A-Team Wire
BATS Exchange To Offer New, Fee-Based Market Data Products FREE - A-Team Wire
Cable & Wireless Targets High-Performance Crowd with Network Upgrade
Cable & Wireless Worldwide has responded to market demand for high-speed exchange connectivity with a new configuration of its International Ethernet Private Line (IEPL) network. The company reckons the newly configured network will meet the needs of high-performance traders by delivering high speed – up to 1Gb per second – as well as predictable and secure ethernet connections.
Icap Selects Tervela Messaging Technology for Electronic Broking Business
Icap has selected Tervela technology to support a global messaging infrastructure for its electronic broking division Icap Electronic Broking (IEB). Tervela’s TMX message switches, TPE persistence engines and the TPM provisioning and management system beat IBM’s MQLLM solution as well as products from Tibco Software, RTI, Solace Systems and 29West in a rigorous nine-month product evaluation and sales process that came down to a bake-off between Tervela’s hardware-based solution and a software-driven messaging system.
NASDAQ OMX to Introduce New Symbology for NASDAQ-Listed Securities FREE - A-Team Wire
IBM Adds 5 Feedhandlers to WebSphere Front Office
IBM has added five feed handlers to its WebSphere Front Office for Financial Markets platform as well as a delay adapter that can be used to delay the distribution of real-time market data feeds by a predefined amount of time.
Thomson Reuters, Interactive Data 2009 Results Give Cause for Optimism in 2010
The market and reference data industry’s two largest publicly listed players – Interactive Data and Thomson Reuters – posted 2009 results last week whose resilience gave some cause for optimism. While neither set the world on fire, neither was expected to, given the ongoing weakness in the overall market, whose ‘recovery’ continues to be muted at best.
Ancerno Launches Trade Compass Pre-Trade TCA as First Phase of Web Migration FREE - A-Team Wire
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When we first heard the latest theory on the succession plan for the former Reuters – that is to say, the market data vendor now known as Thomson Reuters Markets – we thought it was just so much tittle-tattle. It was back in October or November, and the integration of Reuters with Thomson Financial had barely been completed at best (and in fact is probably still ongoing). Surely the time wasn’t yet right for a change at the top, given how recently the key positions had been set post-merger in 2007.
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