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ACTIV Financial Releases Software Ticker Plant
ACTIV Financial has developed a software-only implementation of its ticker plant and content management platform. The ticker plant capitalises on advances in CPU technology and kernel-bypass networking to meet or exceed performance previously associated with hardware acceleration. Steve McNeany, CEO of ACTIV Financial, says: “Advances in CPU technology and the widespread adoption of kernel-bypass networking…
TNS Reaches Connectivity, Hosting and Market Data Access Agreement with HKEX
Transaction Network Services (TNS) and Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEX) have signed an agreement for connectivity, managed hosting and market data access giving market participants greater choice on how to trade with the HKEX. The agreement will provide local and international low latency connectivity to the exchange and between trading partners. TNS will offer…
Vela Partners Enyx on Ticker Plant Providing Access to US Equity Markets on One Device
Vela continues to push the boundaries of low latency through a partnership with Enyx that is delivering the company’s latest ultra-low latency ticker plant appliance for US equities. The hybrid solution includes Enyx’s nxFeed FPGA card for decoding, line arbitration, filtering, and full order management and book building, with Vela providing normalisation and distribution via…
McObject Offers eXtremeDB on AWS
McObject has has made its eXtremeDB high-performance computing database management system available on Amazon Web Services (AWS). The company’s decision to add a pay-as-you-go AWS version of eXtremeDB was driven by capital markets participants as they move to the cloud. The cloud version of eXtremeDB replicates all of the in-memory database’s features, including options to…
Emblaze shows significantly reduced latency in STAC benchmark tests
Exablaze, a provider of ultra-low latency network devices, has broken the previous best STAC-T0 benchmark results with its newly-announced ExaNIC FDK-XP (Firmware Development Kit Extension Pack). It has slashed latency to less than half the previous benchmarked best, recording actionable latencies of 31-44 nanoseconds, signalling a marked advance in tick-to-trade system performance. In the STAC…
Pico Refits Jersey Network with Optical Dark Fibre, Adds Corvil Performance Monitoring
Pico is pushing on with its global expansion plan and taking advantage of its acquisition of Corvil with a refit of its Jersey network and the deployment of Corvil network performance monitoring and analytics on top of the network. The new network, the company’s latest investment in its PicoNet proprietary global financial markets network, is…
Trading Technologies adds connectivity to JSE derivatives market
Trading Technologies International (TT) and the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) have announced that all derivative products listed on the JSE derivatives market are available for trading through the TT platform. The JSE’s equity derivatives market, formerly known as the South African Futures Exchange (SAFEX), is accessible to TT’s global user base. Clients can leverage TT’s…
Recorded Webinar: Optimising outsourced infrastructure for trading in fast markets
In fast markets, you must move quickly to identify and fix any problems with latency, systems and algo performance, but what you cannot see you cannot fix. This begs the question of how trading organisations can see, understand and optimise their infrastructure as it interacts with fast markets to ensure optimal trading connectivity. The answer…
Transaction Network Services Adds Euronext Derivatives Market Data Service
Transaction Network Services (TNS) continues to build out its electronic trading solutions and services portfolio, and meet growing demand for market data, through an agreement to become a vendor of record for Euronext derivatives market data. TNS says its fully managed Euronext derivatives market data service allows market participants to lower the cost of accessing…
EBS Readies Next-generation EBS Direct Platform
EBS, a provider of electronic trading platforms and technology services in foreign exchange markets, and part of CME Group, has launched a next-generation EBS Direct platform with enhanced capacity and speed that will deliver round trip processing times below 50 microseconds. The platform is in beta-testing and is designed to offer faster market data and…