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Slow burn to a big bang: How the new wave of tech is changing market data platforms
For decades, market data platforms have been critical components of financial firms’ trading infrastructures. But with changing user needs and emerging technologies gaining ground, will the platforms of the past be replaced by upstart challengers—or can they evolve into something new?
TRG Licenses DART Terminal Usage Tracking Capabilities from Vela
Under the deal, TRG will sell Vela's DART Terminal Usage Analytics tool, though Vela will continue to provide support services and ongoing development.
Vela Trading Continues Growth Strategy with Object Trading Acquisition
This Vela move follow’s its acquisition last month of futures and options trading specialist OptionsCity.
UPDATE: TMX Speeds Consolidated Feed, Adds Non-Protected Feed
The project reduces latency and footprint for a platform originally built by NYSE Technologies eight years ago.
SR Labs Rebrands, Unveils Tech Roadmap
Officials say the vendor's new identity reflects the combination of the legacy SR Labs business and its Wombat acquisition.
SR Labs Snares Wombat Vet for Pre-Sales
Fellows previously spent nine years working with the Wombat product line that is now owned by SR Labs.
SR Labs Adds New Global Feed Handlers
The vendor is moving ahead with a "refined" development process that combines its own technology with that of its Wombat acquisition.
SR Labs Relocates SuperFeed PoPs to Equinix's LD5 and NY2 Datacenters
The move will reduce latency for customers in the new datacenters accessing the consolidated feed.
OpenMAMA Creates Advisory Group, Seeks Vendors for Steering Committee
The advisory group will comprise firms that are unable to participate in OpenMAMA's steering committee.
Opening Cross: Everybody Wins When the Customer Is Always Right… Right?
Give the customer what they want... even if that means a way out.
Opening Cross: Mmmm… Data!
Bacon is like data—delicious, porky data.
Wombat Vet Carson Joins SR Labs as SVP of Sales Engineering
Carson will be reunited with the technology platform he worked on between 2005 and 2009.
Unfazed by Exit of New CEO Korhammer, SR Labs Plots 2015 Product Roadmap
Despite CEO's departure, vendor targets business as usual, with new products in works.
Metamako Taps NYSE, Wombat Vet Kennedy for US
Australian low-latency switch vendor Metamako has hired Ciaran Kennedy as New York-based business development manager to run the vendor's newly opened US operations.
2014 Review: Infrastructure Deals Drive M&A, Funding Activity in 2014
This year saw its fair share of mergers, acquisitions and investments, with some deals driven by expansion plans, others by strategic opportunism, and others spurred by unforeseen circumstances.
Ex-Harco Execs Reunite at Datactics
Datactics, a Belfast, Northern Ireland-based provider of data quality software, has appointed former NYSE Technologies managing director Steve Cowler chief technology officer, replacing Sarah Bearder, who has served as CTO since 1999 and will remain as…
Born Taps NYSE's Dimtsis for Canada Sales
Born Technology, a Chicago-based exchange connectivity and co-location technology provider, has hired Paul Dimtsis as managing director of sales, based in Toronto.
SR Labs Names ex-NYSE Exec McIntyre European COO to Drive Wombat Growth
New York-based low-latency data platform and feed handler provider SR Labs has appointed former NYSE exec Ian McIntyre as chief operating officer in Europe, to spearhead the rollout of new capabilities as part of ongoing changes to the vendor's…
SR Labs Taps Lava Founder for CEO, Post-Wombat Buy
New York-based low-latency data platform and feed handler provider SR Labs has appointed veteran technology industry executive Richard Korhammer as chief executive, following its recent acquisition of the Wombat data platform business from…
Options Turns to Morrow for Account Management
Managed data and trading infrastructure provider Options has appointed Stephen Morrow senior vice president and global head of account management, based in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
SR Labs Buys Wombat Platform from NYSE Tech
New York-based low-latency feed handler and market data platform vendor SR Labs has acquired the Wombat Financial Software platform and associated technologies for an undisclosed sum from NYSE Technologies, the data and technology arm of the New York…