The London Stock Exchange (LSE) has released plans to upgrade its TradElect platform, which it introduced just over a year ago, by increasing its messaging capacity from 5,000 to 20,000 continuous messages by October.

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Following its decision to start talks with Nasdaq OMX on the delivery of its next-generation trading system, Genium Trading, in February (Electronic Trading, 28 February 2008) Oslo Børs has now been made aware that Nasdaq OMX has changed the content of Genium Trading and is taking some time to evaluate the possible consequences for its future choice of trading platform.

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SWX Swiss Exchange and virt-x, its London-based electronic securities exchange, have unveiled details of a major IT programme designed to enable dramatic improvements in speed and capacity as a result of deployment of a new high performance trading platform. With the new system suited ideally to DMA and high-frequency algorithmic traders, further tariffs cuts could follow in quick succession as SWX and virt-x square up to take on established exchanges and upstart multilateral trading facilities in the post-MiFID environment.

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