Hosted technologies
Chi-Tech Adds 29West to MarketPrizm
NEW YORK-Chi-X Global Technology (Chi-Tech), the technology unit of market operator Chi-X Global, recently swapped out its legacy middleware platform for its MarketPrizm hosted trading environment for the European markets in favor of 29West Messaging.
Monterey Hits Performance Milestone
NEW YORK-The consortium of vendors working to develop an enterprise cloud testbed under the Monterey name have passed a significant performance milestone as they eliminated the hypervisor performance bottleneck and delivered near line-rate throughput…
Pragma Securities Relocates Datacenter
NEW YORK-When Pragma Securities looked for a new datacenter to house its automated trade execution and dark liquidity pool, it selected to deploy its blade servers within datacenter hosting provider Switch and Data's New York Financial EcoCenter facility…
Options IT Adds Nordic Support
NEW YORK-Infrastructure-as-a-service vendor Options IT has extended its Velocity high-speed market connectivity service to the Nasdaq OMX Nordic Exchanges, officials announced today, Nov. 9.
London Stock Exchange Expands Hosted Offering
LONDON-Operators of the London Stock Exchange (LSE) have opened a dedicated floor within the LSE's datacenter for client hosting, exchange officials tell DWT .
Bats Readies Global Datacenter Upgrade
KANSAS CITY, MO.-In preparation for the launch of the a second protected cash equities quote and a new options exchange in the U.S. market, exchange and multilateral trading facility (MTF) operator Bats Trading has leased a significant amount of new…
Savvis Slates 2010 Launch for Project Spirit
LONDON-Rolling out the capabilities of a new datacenter might be as simple as clicking a mouse button if cloud computing platform Project Spirit gets off the ground, according to officials from network and hosting facilities provider Savvis.
Options IT Acquires BNP Paribas IaaS Unit
NEW YORK-Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) provider Options IT has expanded its U.S. datacenter footprint with the acquisition of the assets and clients of BNP Paribas' infrastructure hosting business, officials announced today, Sept. 21.
RTS, Fixnetix Roll Out Hosted DMA Offering
LONDON-Trading platform provider RTS and low-latency market data provider Fixnetix have teamed up to deliver a fully hosted direct market access (DMA) offering, according to officials from both vendors.
FFastFill Expands Asia-Pacific Markets Footprint
LONDON-To deliver better performance to its customers in the Asia-Pacific (Asia-Pac) markets, electronic-trading software provider FFastFill plans to add three new datacenters in the region that will host its software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings.
NYSE Technologies Hosted OMS Targets Sub-Primes
NEW YORK-In an effort to expand high-frequency trading capabilities for the sub-prime broker community and its buy-side clients seeking sponsored access, NYSE Euronext's commercial technology business, NYSE Technologies, plans to roll out a hosted…
Fixnetix Hosts Bats Europe
LONDON-Clients of Bats Europe now have the option to co-locate their servers in the same datacenter as the multilateral trading facility's (MTF's) matching engine via a new service offered by trading connectivity and market data distribution vendor…
Equinix Signs New Clients for NY4 Datacenter
NEW YORK-Datacenter provider Equinix will be announcing the addition of several new clients on its Secaucus, N.J.-based New York-4 (NY4) International Business Exchange (IBX) facility within the next two weeks.
Savvis Expands Euro Proximity Service
LONDON-Network and hosting facilities provider Savvis is building out its proximity service in Europe with the addition of a managed hosting and low-latency connectivity service to provide investment firms with access to all European multilateral trading…
Calypso Adopts SaaS Model
NEW YORK-Customers of trading software provider Calypso Technology are now able to deploy the vendor's product suite on a software-as-a-service (SaaS) basis, officials tell DWT.
Survey: Cloud Becomes Reality for Banks
LONDON-Most large investment banks have implemented or are in the process of adopting cloud computing, according to an industry observer.
OMX, Verizon Enter Outsourcing Talks
STOCKHOLM & NEW YORK—Swedish exchange operator and technology vendor OMX Group plans to outsource its external network operations and datacenter management and has began partner discussion with U.S. telcom provider Verizon, OMX officials announced last…
GL Trade to Debut ASP-based MEFF Link
PARIS & MADRID—Trading software and services provider GL Trade expects to add Spanish derivatives exchange Mercado Español de Futuros Financieros (MEFF) to its pan-European application service provider (ASP) platform by the end of September, DWT has…
Mercari Taps IPC for Network
SYDNEY—Mercari, Australia's first specialist electronic interbank over-the-counter (OTC) interest rate derivative brokering company, announced last week that it has gone live on an IP data network from communications vendor IPC, which includes hosted…
WestLB Outsources Data Hosting to Reuters
LONDON—German bank WestLB has migrated its market data infrastructure to a solution supported by Reuters, which is now hosting the bank's Reuters Market Data System (RMDS) data backbone and all data feed connectivity at BT Radianz sites in London and…