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Thomson Reuters Opens Up RICs to Address EC Antitrust Concerns

The industry has until January 25 to offer the European Commission feedback on Thomson Reuters’ proposal to allow clients to license its Reuters Instrument Codes (RICs) in order to access third-party and internal market data. Thomson Reuters made the proposal as part of its attempt to settle an EC investigation launched in 2009 into whether…

Q&A: Pierre Feligioni of QuantHouse on Why FPGAs Are The Next Step

QuantHouse is an established player in the low-latency datafeed handling business, but only very recently launched a hardware accelerated solution. IntelligentTradingTechnology.com asked the vendor’s co-founder and COO Pierre Feligioni to explain the move, and provide some more technical detail. Q: QuantBOX is your first offering to make use of hardware acceleration. With the continuing performance…

Thomson Reuters Welcomes the European Commission’s Market Test on Market Data Feed Initiatives

Thomson Reuters welcomes the decision by the European Commission to move forward with formal market testing of its proposal to extend usage rights of its Reuters Instrument Codes (RICs). Thomson Reuters believes that the extended usage rights will provide its customers useful support in managing their real-time market data needs in what is an increasingly…

Options IT Deploys Virtual Exchange from FIN

Managed services provider Options IT has gone live with an order matching service from Fundamental Interactions, with two initial customers – a broker/dealer and an Alternative Trading System – with early trade flow of around 60 million shares per day. Deployed on the Options PIPE managed infrastructure – which offers co-located infrastructure, access to market…

Trillium Targets Data Management Solution at Fatca Compliance

Trillium Software aims to ease the data management burden on financial institutions that must comply with the US Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (Fatca) with data assessment and management services that will help them identify, gather and manage the data needed to meet the Act’s requirements. For many, compliance will be neither easy nor low…

Summit Compute Panel – Mantara’s Arnold on Leveraging Technology

Concluding our coverage of last month’s Low-Latency Summit in New York City, the compute panel allowed Mantara chief architect David Arnold to discuss how the trading application vendor leverages technologies to reduce latency.  Mantara provides a platform for market data delivery, order routing and pre-trade risk, with customers requiring performance across the latency spectrum.  As…

CMA Launches CMA NAVigate 1.8, Providing OTC Derivatives Valuations On-Demand

CMA, the leading provider of intraday CDS data and OTC market solutions, has launched a new release of CMA NAVigate, its web-based workflow solution which brings transparency and independence to the valuation of OTC positions. CMA NAVigate 1.8 introduces an intuitive user interface that provides the tools, pricing transparency and real-time support that clients require…

State Street Implements DST Global Solutions’ BPM Platform in Australia

DST Global Solutions announced today that State Street Corporation in Australia has recently implemented the company’s AWD10, a Business Process Management (BPM) platform. AWD is currently used for the management and distribution of unit trust transactions and related documentation. It is managed by both internal operations and clients who access and interact with the solution…

Pricing Partners Introduced a Generic Solver to Smoothen Trades Structuring

Pricing Partners, the world leader in OTC derivatives pricing analytics, mathematical models and independent valuations, announced today that its award winning solution, Price-it Excel is now shipped with a generic solver to enable users to structure their trades easily and seamlessly. Leveraging the scripting language that allows pricing virtually any financial derivatives, this solver can…

Toyota Tsusho Metals Deploys IPC’s Unigy Trading Platform in Japan

IPC Systems Inc., a leading provider of voice and electronic trading communications solutions to the world’s top financial services firms, today announced the successful, live implementation of Unigy, its revolutionary new unified trading communications platform, at Toyota Tsusho Metals Ltd (TTM), Branch in Nagoya Japan, a  company operating in futures and options trading on the…