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Equinix, the global interconnection and data center company, today announced that Aquis Exchange, the proposed pan European stock exchange*, plans to establish its primary data center at the Equinix LD4 International Business Exchange (IBX) data center, inside the Equinix London Slough campus. Aquis Exchange, which will launch pending approval by the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), aims to revolutionise the European trading landscape and increase competition by introducing tiered subscription-based pricing and innovative order types. 

Eze Software Group, a premier provider of global investment technology, today announced that RealTick Data is now available in the Eze OMS and the Tradar PMS. Through this integration, RealTick Data is able to provide global, cross-asset class market data to any of Eze Software's core products.

BittWare, the leader in Altera-based FPGA COTS boards, announced today that they have received IBM Industry Solution Reseller (ISR) approval and that they have collaborated with IBM and Network Allies, an IBM Business Partner and Industry Solution Integrator (ISI), to provide their customers with an Altera Stratix-based server platform for Financial Acceleration, High Frequency Trading (HFT) and network processing applications. IBM provides ISR-status through their Business Partner program, ensuring that all platform components including chassis, processors, memory, disk drives, internal storage, redundant array of independent disks (RAID) and FPGA-based COTS boards work together seamlessly. The first application-ready IBM platform available from BittWare - the PCIe Financial Acceleration Platform - is based on BittWare's Altera Stratix V PCI Express boards and IBM System x server. The platform provides a fully tested FPGA-based system ready for deployment to the financial industry, significantly minimizing their risk and lowering the cost associated with bringing their Financial Acceleration and HFT solutions to market.

ABG Sundal Collier (ABGSC), a Nordic institutional brokerage firm, has chosen SunGard’s Front Arena to replace its former multi-vendor infrastructure for trade execution, order management, and proprietary trading. Front Arena will provide ABGSC with a hosted platform and managed services to help support trading activities from the firm’s offices in Oslo, Stockholm, Gothenburg, Copenhagen, Frankfurt, London and New York.