CME Group
GFI Board Acknowledges BGC Proposal
The board of interdealer broker GFI Group has voted to open its books to suitor BGC Partners, after the brokerage firm made an unsolicited offer to acquire it last week.
CME Files for Trade Repository in Québec
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) has filed an application with the Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF), the regulatory and oversight body for Québec's financial sector, to operate a trade repository service in Québec.
CME Europe Adds Vermaas as CEO
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange Group (CME) has appointed Cees Vermaas as managing director and CEO of its London-based derivatives exchange, CME Europe.
CME Lifts LSE's Stuart for Sales
CME Group has hired former London Stock Exchange exec Ross Stuart as senior director of information products management.
BGC Presents Offer for GFI Group
Brokerage firm BGC Partners has announced its intention to submit a cash tender offer to the shareholders of GFI Group, in direct competition with a previous announcement that the New York-based firm would be acquired by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange …
Anova Unveils Sub-185us CME Wireless Net
Chicago-based low-latency connectivity provider Anova Technologies has rolled out a new network connection that offers data latency of sub-185 microseconds between CME Group's co-location datacenter in Aurora, Illinois and the Digital Realty Trust…
Update: Q2 Exchange Data Revenues Rise, Despite Mixed Overall Financials
Major exchanges worldwide posted significant increases in market data sales in their latest round of their financial results, though they also recorded a mixed bag of total revenues as a consequence of low volumes and low interest rates.
CME to Acquire Trayport and Fenics from GFI Group
The CME Group has agreed to acquire Trayport, a trading software provider for the European energy market, and Fenics, a suite of pricing, risk management, analytics and straight-through processing software, in a two-step transaction with inter-dealer…
CME to Buy GFI's Fenics and Trayport Pricing, Trading Tech Businesses
CME Group has announced plans to acquire interdealer broker GFI Group's Fenics suite of pricing, risk management, analytics and straight-through processing software and its Trayport commodities and energy trading technology.
Thomson Reuters Gives Access to CME Direct in Eikon
Thomson Reuters has announced that its flagship product, Thomson Reuters Eikon, will provide access to CME Direct, CME Group’s front-end trading platform for commodity futures, option and over-the-counter (OTC) markets.
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…
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.
Celoxica, Born Tech Offer Low-Latency CME Data
UK-based low-latency market data vendor Celoxica and US high-speed trading network supplier Born Technology have partnered to provide institutional traders with fast access to market data from CME Group.
Nasdaq Completes eSpeed Datacenter Migration
Nasdaq OMX's eSpeed US treasuries trading platform has completed its migration to Nasdaq's datacenter in Carteret, NJ, resulting in a 100 microsecond improvement in market data distribution, and a 25 percent improvement in roundtrip order-entry response…
IMD Awards Show Increasingly Competitive Vendor Landscape; Bloomberg Leads with Five Wins
Bloomberg scooped five categories at the Inside Market Data and Inside Reference Data Awards on the evening of Wednesday, May 21, though the battle for second and third place in the tally was more competitive, with several vendors winning multiple awards.
CME, TriOptima Pair on OTC Trade Repository Reporting
Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) has tapped over-the-counter (OTC) derivative post-trade services provider TriOptima, owned by interdealer broker Icap, to provide data verification and portfolio reconciliation of trading data through its Swap Data…
Hanweck Associates Adds European, Asian Markets to Analytics Feed, Historical Database
Options analytics provider Hanweck Associates is expanding the global coverage of its VoleraFeed real-time datafeed of implied volatilities and Greek values for options on equities, indexes and futures, as well as its hosted tick database of historical…
Under Attack: Is Real-Time Data Safe from Hackers?
With recent data breaches such as US retailer Target falling victim to point-of-sale customer data theft and AOL email passwords being compromised grabbing the headlines, it's easy to understand why consumers are paranoid about data privacy. With the…
Exchange Data Revenues Grow in Q1
The world's major stock exchanges have reported largely positive financial results for the first quarter of 2014, with both the developed and emerging markets seeing healthy increases in market data revenues.
CME Europe Goes Live
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange Group (CME) has launched its new London-based derivatives venue, CME Europe.
Quincy Extends Microwave Data Service to Europe
Oakland, Calif.-based low-latency microwave connectivity and market data provider Quincy Data has expanded its Quincy Extreme Data service into Europe, to provide automated trading firms in London and Frankfurt with low-latency futures market data from…
BBH Enhances Collateral Management with CME Clearing
Private bank Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH) says it will now support CME Clearing's fourth interest earning facility (IEF4) program, which helps futures commission merchants (FCMs) optimize margin deployment for listed and cleared OTC swaps.
Panel Scrutinizes Trading Algos and Visualization Tools in FX Market
A panel of foreign-exchange (FX) practitioners analyze the results from the recent Tibco-sponsored survey on FX trading practices, arguing that electronic trading in the asset class doesn't necessarily equate to algorithmic trading.
Dickey to Direct OPRA
Market data industry veteran Steve Dickey has been appointed director of the Options Price Reporting Authority, which manages the OPRA consolidated feed of US exchange-traded options quote and trade data.