ICE Starts Break-Up of NYSE Technologies with Sale of Fixnetix Stake, Wombat and SuperFeed
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) has started to break up NYSE Technologies and sell some of its business units following the acquisition of the technology business and its parent NSYE Euronext in November 2013. The first sale was made last month, when ICE sold the 25% holding in London-based Fixnetix that NYSE Technologies acquired in February 2012...
ING Bank Improves Communication with MDXT Data Sharing Solution
MDX Technology (MDXT), a market data connectivity specialist and provider of an enterprise data sharing solution, has signed up ING Bank as its twelfth European customer and is building out its business in the US and Asia ahead of a move into South America. ING Bank selected MDXT’s Connect enterprise data sharing solution to improve...
Citihub Adds Zurich to Global Office Network
Citihub Consulting has opened a Zurich office in response to local demand for its IT advisory services. The office adds to established bases in London, New York, Hong Kong, Singapore and Toronto, and is part of the firm’s commitment to support clients in key financial centres around the world. The Zurich office is headed by...
Quincy Data Extends Low Latency Market Data Service to Frankfurt
Quincy Data has pushed further into Europe with the extension of its Quincy Extreme Data service to Frankfurt. The Frankfurt service distributes CME Group market data from the CME Aurora data centre in Chicago to the FR2 data centre in 37.79 milliseconds. The company has also lowered the latency of distributing CME Group data from...
CMC Markets Adopts SmartTrade’s LiquidityFX Managed Service
CMC Markets, a provider of spread betting, foreign exchange and contracts for difference trading, has selected smartTrade Technologies’ LiquidityFX trading solution for FX and precious metals on the basis of its no brokerage fee model, delivery as a cloud-based managed service and collocation with liquidity providers across Equinix data centres in New York, Tokyo and...
Tech Matters with Pete Harris: Kaazing’s Living Web For Everything-as-a-Service
Founded in Silicon Valley back in 2007 as a better way to deliver interactive web apps, Kaazing is getting a new lease of life with the emergence of what it calls the Living Web – its marketing spin on what’s more often called the Internet of Things (IoT), where distributed applications of all kinds communicate...
NanoSpeed Adds Ultra-Low Latency Connectivity to Eurex T7 Using FPGA Technology
NanoSpeed, a provider of ultra-fast field programmable gate array (FPGA) connectivity solutions, has added the Deutsche Börse Group’s Eurex T7 platform to the 30-plus exchanges it offers access to using the Nano-TG trading gateway. As well as access to the Eurex T7 platform, NanoSpeed is offering connectivity to the eight Eurex T7 derivatives partner exchanges...
Perseus Telecom Adds London Metro Microwave Connectivity
Perseus Telecom has closed the gaps between London’s trading markets with microwave connectivity linking the Equinix LD4 data centre in Slough, the NYSE data centre in Basildon, the London Stock Exchange (LSE) data centre and the City based London Hosting Centre. The metro connectivity links Equinix LD4, which hosts foreign exchange and equities trading engines,...
McKay Brothers Builds Out Low Latency Microwave Connectivity
McKay Brothers is shaving fractions of milliseconds off its microwave routes between US financial data centres as it begins to deliver its 2014 US Microwave Roadmap. The roadmap targets latency between Aurora in Chicago, Illinois and Secaucus in New Jersey at below 8.05 milliseconds and latency between Aurora and Carteret, New Jersey at below 8.00...
Perseus Telecom Acquires Microwave Connectivity Provider TLV Networks
Perseus Telecom, a privately held provider of high speed global connectivity, has acquired TLV Networks and its ultra-low latency microwave connectivity between CME’s Aurora data centre and ICE at Equinix’s 350 Cermak Road data centre in Chicago. The all cash transaction completes today and transfers TLV Networks’ hardware, spectrum, design and operational service to Perseus,...