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McKay Brothers Adds Low-Latency Market Data Distribution in Mumbai
McKay Brothers International has expanded its low latency market data services to India. The company’s Quincy Extreme Data (QED) market data service now distributes select London Metals Exchange data at Mumbai’s Banda Kurla Complex (BKC) in less than 51 milliseconds one-way. In addition, McKay offers select Aurora, Illinois sourced metals, energy and FX futures data…
Citi Cites Rapid Addition FIX Engine Deployment in FX e-Trading Growth
Citi has attributed its recent growth in market share in the electronic trading segment for foreign exchange in part to its deployment of Rapid Addition’s FIX engine and Hub platform. Citi implemented the Rapid Addition capabilities within the new pricing technology it uses in support of its spot FX business, allowing clients to connect via…
Indonesian firm PT Bahana Sekuritas Deploys Itiviti High and Low-touch Trading Solution
PT Bahana Sekuritas (Bahana), a player in Indonesian capital markets, has deployed Itiviti’s high and low-touch trading solution to improve order management capabilities and better serve its regional clients. The Itiviti solution, which includes a highly automated OMS platform, as well as a connectivity and risk management layer, enables Bahana’s equities sales traders to manage…
TT Adds Collocated Access to Thailand Futures Exchange
Trading Technologies (TT) continues to expand its global reach with the introduction of collocated execution and client connectivity services at the Thailand Futures Exchange (TFEX). This takes the TT trading platform into Thailand for the first time, providing TT’s global user base with direct market access to TFEX’s portfolio of listed derivatives, including futures, options…
In the Fragmented World of Fixed Income, the Buy-build Debate Heats Up
By Ollie Cadman, Chief Product Officer, Vela. Whether firms like it or not, there is no escaping the prospect that electronic trading in the fixed income market is here to stay. For some participants it may require more adjustment than for others, but the simple fact is, e-trading rules. This has some major implications for…
McKay Brothers Extends Low-latency Services in Asia
McKay Brothers has added connectivity at what it claims is the lowest known commercial latency between the @Tokyo-CC2 data centre and trading centres in Shanghai and Hong Kong. The procured hybrid microwave/fibre service between the Shanghai Futures Exchange data centre and @Tokyo-CC2 data centre takes less than 22.86 milliseconds round trip. Service between the HKEx…
Singapore-Based EDBI Becomes Pico Investor and Strategic Partner
Pico continues its global expansion plan post its acquisition of Corvil with the announcement that Singapore-based investor EDBI has become a Pico investor and strategic partner. Pico launched in APAC about a year ago and has since built presence with strategic hires, new offices and additional data centres in Singapore, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Korea and…
LSEG Technology Makes First Deployment of Millennium Exchange in the Cloud
London Stock Exchange Group’s technology solutions provider, LSEG Technology, has achieved a couple of ‘firsts’, with its Millennium Exchange matching engine being deployed in the cloud and for a digital asset exchange for the first time. The deployment, at 24/7 digital asset exchange AAX, also extends Millennium Exchange’s asset class coverage to crypto currency pairs…
SEC Contracts MayStreet to Provide Market Data for MIDAS
MayStreet, provider of a capital markets platform delivering low-latency connectivity and high-precision market data, has assumed the role of market data provider to the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Market Information Data Analytics System (MIDAS) following its acquisition of the Thesys Technologies business that previously supported the system. The MIDAS platform combines technology and…
Options Deploys Latest Arista Switches to Offer Ultra-low Latency at Sub-5 Nanoseconds
Options, a provider of colocation services for capital markets, is meeting client demand for ultra-low latency switching capability with the deployment of Arista 7130 series ultra-low latency switches in 20 colocation environments globally. The company selected the switches after a successful deploying of Arista 7150 switches and plans to have 12 fully managed 7130 switches…