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Monday Morning Blues for Euronext.liffe

LONDON—Trading on Euronext.liffe derivatives markets ground to a halt just 21 seconds into the trading day last Monday morning, as the exchange operator was forced to shut down markets for more than four hours because of a technical issue with its market…

eSpeed-BGC Deal Drives New Data

The pending buyout of Cantor Fitzgerald's voice-broking spin-off BGC Partners by Cantor's electronic trading subsidiary eSpeed is expected to generate a wealth of new market data products as a result of combining the two businesses.

WestLB Aims DART at Data Spend

German bank WestLB has rolled out the Data Access and Reporting Tool (DART) from Wombat Financial Software subsidiary Harco Technology in a bid to reduce its market data costs by eliminating duplication of services, bank officials tell Inside Market Data…

NYSE Euronext Advances Data Integration

As part of its plans to establish a single data distribution infrastructure for the merged NYSE Euronext, the New York Stock Exchange is working to establish connectivity between Euronext and the SFTI (Secure Financial Transaction Infrastructure) network…

Exegy Integrates DRC Processor Module

St. Louis-based technology provider Exegy will integrate DRC Computer Corp.'s Reconfigurable Processor Unit (RPU) into its hardware-accelerated ticker plant, enabling Exegy to add complex event processing and algorithmic functions to the ticker plant in…

Thomson Buys Xinhua News; DJ in Play

Newswire consolidation continued last week with news during early Asia trading on Friday that Thomson Financial had acquired the news assets of Xinhua Finance News outside of China, and that Dow Jones' controlling Bancroft family is now considering a…

BT Rolls Out ITS Anywhere for Nortel

LONDON—Telecom vendors Nortel and BT have announced a collaboration to bring to market ITS Anywhere for Nortel that will enable investors' phone calls and communications to be monitored and accessed on or off the trading floor, say BT officials.

West Highland, CJC Ally For Global Support Services

NEW YORK—West Highland Support Services, a New York-based provider of remote system management and market data support services, is preparing to unveil an agreement with CJC, a London-based consultancy providing market data consulting, administration and…

HKEx Starts Final Network Migration

HONG KONG—The Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Ltd. (HKEx) has entered the final stages of its multi-year network consolidation project, as it will start moving batches of AMS/3 securities trading platform users to the exchange's new consolidated IP…

CESR Releases Best Execution Guidance

PARIS—In order to clarify the best execution requirements under the E.U.'s Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (Mifid), the Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR) published a question-and-answer (Q&A) document last week.

eSpeed to Acquire and Integrate BGC

NEW YORK—In a surprise move last week, electronic inter-dealer broker eSpeed announced that it plans to acquire Cantor Fitzgerald's brokerage arm BGC in an all-stock deal valued at $1.3 billion.

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