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Michael Shashoua

Michael Shashoua is editor of Inside Reference Data, a role he began in 2011. He joined Incisive Media in 2009 as deputy editor of Sell-Side Technology. His experience covering financial services industry operational issues includes eight years as senior editor of Global Investment Technology, and two years as an editor at The Deal. Shashoua completed a master's degree in Media Management at Fordham University in 2013, and began his career as a reporter and copy editor in local newspapers in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Florida.

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BOX Sets For May Switchover

NEW YORK-Operators of the Boston Options Exchange (BOX), expect to take the exchange's new operations platform-consisting of its matching engine that is housed in the Equinix NY4 International Business Exchange (IBX) datacenter located in Secaucus, N.J…

BM&FBovespa Girds for HFT Growth

NEW YORK-Looking to attract more high-frequency traders, Brazilian exchange BM&FBovespa plans to deploy a co-location offering for equities trading similar to what it currently offers to derivatives traders in its São Paulo facilities, pending regulatory…

Fidessa EMS Gains U.S. Options Support

NEW YORK-Market connectivity and trading platform provider Fidessa has integrated real-time market data and trading capabilities for U.S. options into its global EMS Workstation, vendor officials announced today, April 26.

Swift Signals Five-Year Tech Plan

NEW YORK-During its recent Swift Operations Forum-Americas (SOFA), held in Manhattan, industry messaging cooperative Swift laid out its five most important technology focuses for its five-year business strategy, dubbed Swift 2015.

Informatica Eyes Virtual Databases

NEW YORK-Data integration software vendor Informatica is planning to expand the "virtual database" capabilities of its Informatica 9 data integration platform in 2011, vendor officials tell DWT .

Industry: HFT Brings Higher Costs to Futures Markets

NEW YORK-Direct market access (DMA) is changing how technology providers and trading venues are working with futures commission merchants (FCMs) in conducting high-frequency trading (HFT) and managing its risks, according to members of the futures…

GigaSpaces Brings Cloud to the Grid

NEW YORK-Grid-enabling platform provider GigaSpaces Technologies has released version 7.1 of its eXtreme Application Platform (XAP), which is designed to make data and application scaling simpler, according to vendor officials.

IPC Upgrades Toronto PoP

TORONTO-Financial services communications provider IPC Systems has upgraded the Toronto point of presence (PoP) serving its Electronic Connectivity Services (ECS) and Enhanced Voice Services (EVS) for the Canadian market, officials announced today, April…

Options IT Reduces Latency in Fragmented Europe

LONDON-Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) provider Options IT has lowered the latency of its Options Pipe Velocity market connectivity service for major European trading venues by an average of 200 microseconds among all European markets, vendor…

Liquidnet Takes Solace in Hardware for Messaging

OTTAWA-Block trading venue Liquidnet has begun implementing the Unified Messaging Platform from hardware-based middleware provider Solace Systems, replacing its previous software-based systems from Tibco and 29West, according to Liquidnet officials.

TT Plans Direct Access To BM&FBovespa

São Paulo-Multi-asset trading technology provider Trading Technologies International (TT) announced today, April 12, a partnership with Brazilian exchange BM&FBovespa in which TT will provide direct access, through its X_Trader platform, to the exchange…

SunGard Merges Business, IT Consulting Units

NEW YORK-Trading software provider SunGard will combine its business and IT consulting groups into a new entity, SunGard Global Services (SGGS), in an effort that has been in the works since early in 2009, vendor officials announced today, April 5.

Abel/Noser Launches Algo Customization Platform

NEW YORK-Building on its post-trade analytics product, Trade-Zoom, agency broker Abel/Noser recently launched its Signature Algorithms application, which will customize algorithms based on the trader's past trading behavior and lower their trading costs.

Omgeo Expands CTM Coverage to North America

BOSTON-Post-trade industry utility Omgeo is one broker closer to retiring its global trade and allocation platform, Oasys Global, as ITG Canada becomes the latest brokerage to participate in Omgeo Central Trade Manager (CTM), the central matching service…

Instinet to take Asian dark-pool plunge

Dark pools, already a well-established facet of the buy-side trading landscape in the US, western European and Scandinavian markets, are primed to appear in Asia. Given the speed with which they became an integral part of the markets in which they…

Chi-Tech Betas WebSphere LLM

HONG KONG-Chi-X Global Technology (Chi-Tech), the technology service arm of Chi‑X Global, is in the midst of testing the low-latency middleware from IBM for three planned Asian markets-Chi-X Australia, Chi-X Japan and Chi-East-to be launched later this…

Integration Demands Spur 29West Buy

NEW YORK-Acquiring low-latency messaging provider 29West means that data integration software vendor Informatica will be able to integrate messaging capabilities into its services and address more customer needs for the front, middle and back offices,…

Goldman Sachs Gears Up for New Options Era

Sell-side firms' electronic trading units are getting into new frontiers, both geographically and by asset class, with options being the newest of these. Goldman Sachs Electronic Trading (GSET) is tasked with developing and providing technology to…

Greenline Bundles FIX Monitoring, Latency Tools

Greenline Financial Technologies will this week unveil a revamped version of the latency monitoring software it acquired last year from defunct software house Trading Metrics ( IMD , Jan. 4), with the new name of Latency Monitor.

IPC Alliance Gets Management Facelift

NEW YORK-As part of an upgrade to version 16 of its Alliance trading communications platform, IPC Systems has introduced a Web-based management terminal to manage system and customer account information, vendor officials announced today, March 22.

Object Trading Shaves Pre-Trade Latency

SYDNEY-High-performance trading infrastructure provider Object Trading has rolled out enhancements to its FrontRisk Interactive In-Line Risk Management service for sell-side users, say vendor officials.

RTS Ramps Up Latency Reduction

NEW YORK-Trading services provider RTS Realtime Systems Group has gone into beta testing with the first of a three-phrase technology initiative to enhance its low-latency offering.