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S&P Capital IQ’s Real Time Solutions has announced the latest release of its automated trading platform. QuantFACTORY 5.3.2 includes a number of new features, based on continuous client feedback and extensive development, which will help strengthen its overall capabilities and performance.

NYSE Technologies, the commercial technology division of NYSE Euronext, today announced the launch of NYSE BQT (Best Quote & Trades), a consolidated XDP feed that provides a real-time, unified view of Level 1 market data, including Best Bid/Offer and Last Sale information for the NYSE, NYSE Arca, and NYSE MKT exchanges including NASDAQ issues traded on NYSE Arca and NYSE MKT. NYSE BQT is a more flexible and affordable alternative to the range of expensive Level 1 market data offerings currently available.

The NASDAQ OMX Group, BM&FBOVESPA, the Brazilian Securities, Commodities and Futures (BVMF3) Exchange, and BM&FBOVESPA Market Supervision (BSM), have announced the official go-live of NASDAQ OMX's SMARTS Integrity market surveillance platform across Brazil's equities, commodities and futures. BM&FBOVESPA's Equities market has been working with SMARTS since 2011, and now the Commodities and Futures markets will be monitored on the PUMA Trading System platform.

Progress Software Corporation today announced the release of a new version of its leading Progress Apama CEP platform. The latest version introduces a new kernel that dynamically compiles application code written in Apama’s scripting language – EPL – to native machine code. The resulting boost in execution speed delivers significant benefits in scalability to much higher event rates and concurrent event queries.

SunGard is expanding its Valdi suite of trading solutions with the introduction of Valdi Trading Analytics (VTA). SunGard’s VTA is a global offering that brings real-time trade execution performance and financial analytics to the front office, helping financial services firms operate smarter and achieve competitive advantage by improving trading profitability and better managing firm-wide trading expense reconciliation. Firms can use VTA as a managed or hosted solution.

OneMarketData today announced that Optiver, a global market making firm, has implemented OneTick, a single solution for complex event processing (CEP) and tick data that spans both historical and real-time, throughout their Asia Pacific division.

Otkritie Capital (Otkritie), one of the leading financial services providers in Russia, has selected SunGard to help launch a new direct market access (DMA) service allowing for automatic real-time currency conversion from the Russian Ruble to the U.S. Dollar. SunGard has also added integrated access to an algorithmic trading service to provide Otkritie’s clients with access to Russian trading venues.

Trading Technologies International (TT) and The Mexican Derivatives Exchange (MexDer) today announced that TT has linked its X_TRADER derivatives trading platform to MexDer, the leading marketplace for trading derivatives on Mexican benchmarks, via the CME Group’s Globex platform. TT’s connection launched concurrently with CME’s iLink enhancements for MexDer via Globex, which were released on April 14.

OneMarketData, a leader in tick data management and analytics, today announced that FlexTrade Systems, a global leader in broker-neutral, multi-asset execution and order management systems, offers integration with OneTick, a single solution for complex event processing (CEP) and tick data that spans both historical and real-time, to enhance FlexTRADER, its execution management system (EMS). By incorporating OneTick’s analytics capabilities into its flagship EMS, FlexTrade users will benefit from a single platform that gives them critical market insight to optimize execution management and strategies across multiple asset classes.