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TAIFEX Plans Real-time Market Data Feed
The Taiwan Futures Exchange (TAIFEX) is planning to provide a real-time market data feed from March 23, 2020. The feed will be introduced at the same time as continuous trading on Taiwan’s stock market, which currently uses the call auction trading method during trading hours. TAIFEX’s existing data feed disseminates a snapshot of prices and…
Clearpool Aims to Democratise Electronic Trading with Algo Management System
Clearpool, a New York based provider of electronic trading solutions, is building out technology designed to democratise electronic trading through the provision of transparency, trust and control. The company’s flagship product is Algorithmic Management System (AMS), which allows all brokers, large and small, to access algorithms that can help them compete on a level playing…
Plato and BMLL partner to deliver market quality metrics tool Platometrics
Plato Partnership, a not-for-profit company working to improve the European equities market, and BMLL Technologies, a data analytics firm, have released Platometrics, a market quality metrics tool providing market participants with a picture of trading data and trends from European venues, free of charge. The solution provides a consolidated overview of liquidity, European best bid…
SteelEye Extends Reach with Office in Paris
SteelEye, a compliance technology and data analytics firm, has taken the next step in its international expansion with the opening of an office in Paris. The office supports SteelEye’s rapid growth and positions the company closer to regulated financial markets in France, as well as the Benelux region, Switzerland and many of its existing clients….
Trading Technologies Contracts SBI Thai Online to Distribute Platform
Trading Technologies International (TT) has contracted with SBI Thai Online, a Bangkok-based broker and subsidiary of SBI Group, to distribute the TT platform to its client base. The agreement will allow SBI Thai Online to provide international clients with access to the Thailand Futures Exchange (TFEX) via the exchange’s proprietary EMAPI API from within TFEX’s…
TNS Puts Hosting Solution into Interxion, ICE European Liquidity Centre, Equinix LD4 and FR2
Transaction Networks Services (TNS) has strengthened its European network by expanding its managed hosting solution, TNSXpress, at four key data centres in London, Slough, Basildon and Frankfurt. The solution uses the company’s ultra-low latency Layer 1 technology that offers trade executions 10 times faster than traditional Layer 3 architectures, and is available at the Interxion…
Real-Time Market Data in the Cloud Moves Closer to Reality
This week’s report from the FSB warning of the perils of cloud deployment for financial institutions doubtless will give cause for serious consideration of whether and how to shift certain activities to commercial public cloud platforms. But the fact remains that practitioners will continue in their quest to push what they can off-premises and onto…
FINRA CAT Selects AWS to Support Consolidated Audit Trail Platform
The US Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT) has taken another step forward with FINRA CAT, the CAT plan processor, selecting Amazon Web Services (AWS) as cloud provider for the audit trail of order information for all US equity securities and listed options across US markets and trading venues. AWS storage, compute, database, analytics and security services…
Cboe Acquisition of EuroCCP Offers Potential for Equity Derivatives Trading
Cboe Global Markets has made a definitive agreement to acquire EuroCCP, a pan-European equities clearing house. The transaction will bring together two companies that champion competition, open access and clearing interoperability in Europe. Additionally, Cboe’s ownership of EuroCCP is expected to provide opportunity to pursue the development of equity derivatives trading and clearing capabilities in…
Avelacom Cuts London to Hong Kong Round Trip Latency to 150 Milliseconds
Avelacom, a Moscow-based provider of low-latency, high-performance global connectivity and IT infrastructure, has enhanced its high-speed network performance by joining Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing’s (HKEX) ecosystem of network service providers and offering what it claims is the market’s lowest latency route between London and Hong Kong. To facilitate low-latency access to HKEX markets for…