Latency
Tiger Sinks Claws into Hudson Fiber
Tiger Infrastructure Partners, a private equity firm specializing in investing in mid-market infrastructure assets, has acquired an undisclosed majority stake in Paramus, NJ-based low-latency network provider Hudson Fiber Network, to expand the vendor's…
City Index Rolls Out Velocimetrics for Data Quality Monitoring
City Index, a provider of equities, options, indexes and contracts for difference trading and financial spread betting, has implemented technology from latency monitoring provider Velocimetrics to monitor the quality of market data feeding its equities…
Redline Opens Windows to InRush Ticker
Woburn, Mass.-based feed handler and ticker plant vendor Redline Trading Solutions has added support for the Microsoft Windows Server platform to its InRush ticker plant, which previously only ran on the Linux operating system, to open up the vendor's…
NovaSparks Preps Third Gen of FPGA-Based Ticker Plant
French FPGA feed handler and data appliance provider NovaSparks is preparing to launch a new version of its hardware-only NovaTick ticker plant, which will provide users with new features such as exchange recovery, which are typically found in software…
Activ Adds EU Alternative Venues to ActivFeed
Market data and ticker plant provider Activ Financial has added new content from four European alternative trading venues to its ActivFeed low-latency consolidated datafeed, in response to customer demand and to provide traders with complete coverage of…
CFN Buys Microwave Network to Enter Chicago-NY RF Data Fray
Low-latency fiber network provider CFN Services has unveiled an ultra-low-latency microwave connectivity network that transports CME Group market data between Chicago and New York with latency of between 8.4 and 8.7 milliseconds──5.5 milliseconds faster…
Quincy Adds Eurex Futures Data to QED Microwave Data Service
Oakland, Calif.-based low-latency market data vendor Quincy Data has added futures data from Deutsche Borse's Eurex derivatives exchange to its Quincy Extreme Data (QED) service, a normalized feed of market data sourced from exchanges worldwide and…
New Taiwan Exchange Platform Slashes Latency, Triples Capacity
The Taiwan Stock Exchange has rolled out the second generation of its trading platform, dramatically increasing the system's capacity and throughput, and reducing latency, to support the introduction of continuous trading next year.
Eris Exchange Swap Futures Rolls Out Perseus' Networks
U.S. futures exchange Eris Exchange Swap Futures has rolled out New York-based fiber and microwave network provider Perseus Telecom’s High Precision Time and market-to-market networks, providing clients with fast connectivity to its Eris SwapBook…
TMX Preps US-Canada Microwave Network with Strike Acquisition
TMX Atrium, the network subsidiary of Canadian exchange operator TMX Group, has bought the StrikeNet low-latency microwave network business of Strike Technologies from parent group, New York-based market maker and trading technology provider Global…
Update: Cape City Command Calls on Quinn, Barker
Wilmington, NC-based Cape City Command, a provider of appliances that analyze trading session latency and enable trading applications to route to the fastest sessions in real time, has bolstered its sales and development functions with the hires of Terry…
Thomson Reuters Taps Celoxica Tech for FPGA Feed
Thomson Reuters has rolled out Elektron Direct Feed, a hardware-accelerated datafeed, using FPGA cards from UK-based data technology vendor Celoxica to deliver single-digit microsecond latency.
Redline Gets $5M VC Funds, Adds Ex-Thomson CEO Harrington to Board
Woburn, Mass.-based low-latency ticker plant and feed handler provider Redline Trading Solutions has raised $5 million in new funds from Cue Ball Group, a Boston-based venture capital firm chaired by Richard Harrington, the former president and chief…
Bloomberg Touts New Toronto Ticker
Bloomberg has gone live with a new ticker plant in Toronto, to provide financial firms with faster access to data captured from Canadian exchanges, reducing latency by 71 percent compared to its previous offering.
Velocimetrics Nabs TS-A Sales Head Woolhouse
Latency monitoring technology provider Velocimetrics has hired former TS-Associates sales head Adam Woolhouse as strategic account manager, responsible for global account development and client relationship strategy.
CoreSite Rolls Out Perseus' Time Synch in VA Datacenter
Carrier-neutral datacenter and co-location provider CoreSite Realty Corporation has deployed connectivity and managed services provider Perseus Telecom's High-Precision Time certified timing service at its facility in Northern Virginia, to enable…
TS-Associates Enters Administration, Velocimetrics Takes Over IP, Tech Team
Latency monitoring technology provider Velocimetrics has acquired an exclusive license to sell and maintain the Precision Instrumentation product range developed by UK-based latency monitoring technology provider TS-Associates, which has entered…
Tryd Partners Cellbroker, SolutionTech Tap Perseus LiquidPath
Cellbroker, a Brazilian provider of mobile trading solutions for stocks, commodities and currencies, and Rio de Janeiro-based trading technology platform vendor SolutionTech have rolled out low-latency fiber and microwave network provider Perseus Telecom…
NovaSparks, Thesys Ally for Accelerated Data
French FPGA feed handler and data platform provider NovaSparks and New York-based Thesys Technologies, a provider of low-latency data, trading and risk solutions have integrated their offerings so mutual clients can apply the performance gains of…
Quincy Adds ICE Futures, eSpeed Treasuries to QED Microwave Data
Low-latency market data provider Quincy Data has added equity and energy futures data from the IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) and US Treasury bond data from Nasdaq’s eSpeed electronic bond trading platform to its Quincy Extreme Data microwave service, to…
Tocom Taps KVH for CME Data Link
The Tokyo Commodity Exchange (Tocom) has deployed Japanese datacenter and hosting provider KVH's global Ether-WAN network to connect between KVH's TDC1proximity datacenter in Tokyo and CME Group's datacenters in Aurora, Illinois and at 350 East Cermak…
Options Adds Velocimetrics Latency, Performance Monitoring
Infrastructure-as-a-service provider Options has integrated Velocimetrics' monitoring and performance analysis technology with its Velocity low-latency market data and connectivity product.
Crédit Agricole Deploys Solace Appliances for Low-Latency Data
Crédit Agricole's Corporate and Investment Bank is rolling out data routing appliances from hardware-based messaging technology vendor Solace Systems to provide a low-latency data distribution backbone for its foreign exchange, rates and bonds trading…
Celoxica and Born Technology Pair on Low-Latency CME Access
Celoxica and Born Technology have entered a partnership to provide low-latency access to the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME Group) aimed at institutional investors.