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Quincy Expands QED with Eurex Futures

Quincy Data has expanded its Quincy Extreme Data (QED) service with the addition of bond and equity futures from Eurex that will be distributed to data centres across the UK, New Jersey and Illinois. This is the first European data source to be added to the service, which already distributes data from eight US exchanges…

Quincy Expands QED with Equity and Energy Futures

Quincy Data has expanded its Quincy Extreme Data (QED) service with the addition of select equity and energy futures sourced from 350 East Cermak and cash treasuries sourced from Carteret. With this development, Quincy clients will not only benefit from additional data sources, but also Quincy’s broad distribution of data from eight exchanges to trading…

Tech Matters with Pete Harris: Flash For The Men, Not The Boys

In the search for increased financial application performance, systems architects are exploring a number of different hardware approaches. Parallel processing is one of them. Another is deploying Flash memory as a substitute for hard disk storage, which can be particularly effective where data throughput is a bottleneck. As it happens, quite a bit has been…

Options Completes Expansion of Velocity IaaS to Mahwah Data Centre

Options has completed the expansion of its Velocity infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) trading platform to the NYSE colocation facility in Mahwah, New Jersey. With this development, Options’ clients will not only benefit from exchange colocation to access a wide variety of dark and lit markets across the US, but also from low-latency trading strategies that could improve…

Talking Intelligent Trading With Andrew Delaney: Can Colt Grow Into a Cap Markets Stallion?

Colt’s creation of a dedicated capital markets team that integrates its now wholly owned MarketPrizm unit with its own hosting and connectivity offerings – announced last week – is a perhaps overdue logical next step in its acquisition of MarketPrizm, which was spun out of the former Cicada Cos. MarketPrizm became 100% owned by Colt…

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…