The autumn season of 2010 holds the promise of extreme exchange action in the European arena as all of the major incumbent exchanges proceed with major investments in their matching engine, data centre and connectivity infrastructures. Clearly, this has all come in response to the arrival of a glut of multilateral trading facilities (MTFs) since the launch of the most successful of them – Chi-X Europe – back in mid-2007.

One hundred percent of the 58 financial technology managers surveyed across 22 international banks said their corporate clients were aware of the STP rate between their back office and the bank, and that over half of them were actively working to improve this rate, in a recent poll taken by software house Fundtech. The interest in outsourcing has grown with 55 percent of respondents saying their institution is more interested this year than last. And 69 percent said their IT budgets would grow in 2005.