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Options Extends Colocation Coverage at ASX
Options has extended colocation coverage for the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) at the Australian Liquidity Centre (ALC). This supplements existing market data access for clients in the region and across Options’ global managed colocation backbone. Options clients colocated within ASX will gain vendor access to ASX 24 and ASX Trade, bolstering the firm’s ultra-low-latency exchange…
Symphony Adds Fenics OTC Data to Collaboration Platform
Symphony, the former Bloomberg Messaging Killer that now positions itself as a team collaboration platform, has added interest-rate swaps pricing from Fenics Market Data to its data and applications container for capital markets users. The Fenics Data – swaps pricing from BGC Partners, an affiliate of bond IDB Cantor Fitzgerald – expands the market information…
BSO Becomes a Google Cloud Partner Interconnect Provider
BSO, a network, cloud and hosting services provider, has become a Google Cloud Partner Interconnect provider and will use the Google Dedicated Interconnect as a solution for connecting on-premise data centres to Google Cloud. BSO clients are onboarding with Partner Interconnect in Frankfurt and London, and the service will ultimately be available from all the 100+ PoPs…
ULTUMUS Partners Velox Financial Technology
ULTUMUS, a provider of data services for index and exchange-traded fund products, has partnered Velox Financial Technology, a provider of real-time trading solutions for portfolio management, trading and analytics to investment banks and asset managers. The partnership sees ULTUMUS and Velox delivering services to clients as enterprise-wide managed data feeds as well as directly to…
McKay and Quincy Offer Low Latency Market Data Across New Jersey Equity Triangle
McKay Brothers and Quincy Data have connected the exchanges in the New Jersey Equity Triangle with what they say is the lowest latency in the market. The companies’ services link equity exchanges in Mahwah, Carteret and Secaucus, with the McKay network currently offering two-way market data and private bandwidth services between Mahwah and Carteret as…
OpenFin Offers Low-cost OS to Start-ups and Initiates Services Framework
OpenFin continues to build out its interoperable financial desktop with the offer of its Enterprise Edition OpenFin operating system at a ‘dramatically’ reduced rate for early stage fintechs and start-ups. The initiative is designed to allow emerging businesses to build applications on the OpenFin OS alongside larger players, accelerating innovation and collaboration, and delivering additional…
Refinitiv Banks on Silver Lining as Cloud Delivery Features High on Trading Product Agenda
As it comes to terms with its new ownership under Blackstone Group, Refinitiv is continuing apace with its long-stated aim of incorporating cloud into its delivery options for the trading environment. Acknowledging that not all trading-related data and activities are appropriate for cloud, the company is deep into its programme to offer cloud delivery where…
Vela Teams Up with Enyx to Deliver Ultra-Low Latency Solutions
Vela, a trading and market access technology provider, has partnered with Enyx, a developer of ultra-low latency products, to provide its clients with access to Enyx’s field programmable gate array (FPGA) technology, initially focused on ultra-low latency market data solutions. The firms have completed a proof of concept integrating the Enyx nxFeed, an ultra-low latency…
Addressing the Challenges and Realising the Benefits of a ‘Cloud First’ Policy
By Andy Mather, European Financial Services Industry Specialist, Telstra. The move to a ‘cloud first’ policy by financial firms is a tantalising idea. After all, which chief technology officer wouldn’t want to seriously reduce their company’s on-premise compute and storage costs, while at the same time boosting agility and ability to profit from new, innovative,…
HPR Reaches Goal of Delivering a Consolidated View of Real-Time Global Trading Risk with CRM-X
HPR – aka Hyannis Port Research – has reached the goal of a consolidated view of global trading risk across equities markets with CRM-X, the latest version of its Central Risk Manager (CRM), which supports a regional view of trading risk. CRM-X acts as a manager of managers and can be positioned anywhere to parent…