Trading Tech
Lightpath Adds International Connectivity via NJFX
Connecting to the upcoming New Jersey Fiber Exchange landing station gives Lightpath access to data networks from Europe and South America.
Barchart Bows Event-Based API for Monitoring, Alerting
The new API will allow users to monitor for specific events and conditions, and to generate alerts when those conditions are met.
Platts Debuts Monthly Mexico Energy Supply/Demand News Service
The service will provide key news, pricing and commentary for those involved in the Mexican commodities markets seeking to take advantage of the liberalization of the Mexican energy industry.
Machine Learning Could Address Fixed-Income Liquidity Woes
Industry experts recently discussed the potential for machine-learning techniques to help the buy side and sell side connect.
Solarflare Eyes Datacenter Uses Beyond Trading with New Adapters
The vendor's upcoming line of adapters will expand its potential addressable market with new use cases beyond high-performance trading environments.
Volta Expands London Datacenter
When completed in September, the third floor in the building will offera further 400 racks of servers for hosting nad co-location.
Trading Volumes Rise on MarketAxess Open Trading Platform in Europe
European buy side aims to reduce complexity in workflow
As Asia Launch Looms, Bloomberg Tradebook Sees Strongest ETF Growth in Fixed Income, Commodities
Kiran Pingali discusses Bloomberg Tradebook's Exchange-Traded-Fund (ETF) Request-for-Quote (RFQ) platform and talks about where the market is heading.
Metamako's Metamux 48 Switch Adds Ports, Lowers Latency
The vendor has increased the number of ports on the switch by 50 percent to 48, and has added support for Altera FPGAs, potentially reducing latency.
SR Labs Unveils Low-Bandwidth Feed to Reach Users Outside Financial Hubs
SR Labs' new Compressed Data Feed will allow the vendor to reach potential clients in regions outside primary financail centers, where high-bandwidth circuits may not be readily available.
NovaSparks Bows NovaLink to Connect Ticker Plant to Client FPGA Systems
The FPGA-to-FPGA link allows users to bypass CPUs that can add latency and processing time.
Citco Previews Soon-to-be-Launched CitcoOne Platform
The new platform was built from the ground up with a focus on data mining and visualization.
Options Research, Victory Networks Ally for Real-Time Options Analytics Calculator
The former ORATS is expanding its analytics into real time, using live and historical data from Victory Networks.
Equinix: LD4 Power Outage Minor
The datacenter operator says only four clients were affected by the issue on Thursday morning.
Managed Services Offering Driving Markit EDM
Swiss asset manager Mirabaud is the latest buy-side firm to implement the EDM-based centralized repository via a managed service.
Style Research, Morningstar Ally on Fund Comparison Tool
The Peer Insights tool will allow investors to compare similar funds at a more granular level.
Electronifie Seeks to Double Enabled Traders, Triple Active Users By Year End
Since its launch, $1.6 billion has been executed on the platform with an average trade size of $3 million.
Money.Net, Mergent Partner for Affordable Academic Data Access
The vendors are expanding their university programs by providing content and tools at a lower price point than premium terminals, officials say.
McKay Boosts European Futures Content on QED Wireless Data Service with Euronext Data
The vendor says the QED millimeter-wave wireless service will provide the lowest latencies between Euronext's co-location facility and other key London datacenters.
Perseus Adds Nasdaq, eSpeed Data to LiquidPath Managed Data Service
Perseus clients will be able to receive data and trade on Nasdaq and eSpeed alongside related markets, such as the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.
Dancing in the Dark: Fraud Shapes Dark Pools
Dark pools, with their anonymous members and clandestine dealings, have come in for a fair bit of stick in the last few years, especially from regulators on both sides of the Atlantic keen to shine a light on these increasingly popular execution venues.
Hot Topics at Sifma Ops: T+2, CAT, Blockchain
Three topics kept cropping up during panels at Sifma's annual operations conference.
GreenKey Opens Door to Thomson Vet Garnier
Garnier, who previously spent 12 years at Thomson Reuters and Thomson Financial, will be responsible for sales, service, marketing and partnerships.
OpenLink Taps Diyar United as Middle East Partner
Diyar United to provide local support and delivery for OpenLink's cloud solutions.