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MarketPrizm, a leading provider of market data and trading infrastructure services, today announced that it will provide market data and execution connectivity across Europe for NASDAQ OMX NLX ("NLX"). NLX, the new London derivatives market, will offer a range of both short- and long-term interest rate (STIRs and LTIRs) euro- and sterling-based listed derivatives products, subject to Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) approval.

MTS, a leading European electronic fixed income marketplace, today announced plans to launch a platform for U.S. institutional investors. The platform will enable U.S. buy-side participants to directly access real-time pricing from one of the deepest liquidity pools in Europe for the first time, and execute European and U.S. government, agency, mortgage, and corporate bonds with major dealers.

Trading Technologies International, Inc. (TT) today announced that effective June 1, TT will offer X_TRADER with bundled access to all of TT’s 35 supported markets for the flat rate of $500 per month and X_TRADER Pro for a reduced price of $1200 per month. Also, X_TRADER will now include synthetic order functionality through its Synthetic Strategy Engine (Synthetic SE), which was previously available only with X_TRADER Pro.

BT today announced that the market data of BM&FBOVESPA — one of the largest listed exchange groups in the world, the second largest in the Americas and the leading exchange in Latin America — will now be available to financial institutions globally via the BT Radianz Cloud. The cloud community members now have access to the market data of the Brazilian exchange via the world’s largest secure networked financial services community, benefitting from reduced time to market and the costs of technology infrastructure.

325 Hudson, the carrier-neutral core interconnection facility strategically located on the fiber-dense crossroads of Hudson Street and the Holland Tunnel in New York City and NexxCom Wireless announce the first managed wireless Meet Me Room (MMR), which will operate from the 325 Hudson rooftop. The wireless MMR's design, provided by NexxCom, is able to minimize frequency interference, maximize roof space and optimize customer ease of wireless connections while creating the highest capacity, highest availability and lowest latency connections across Manhattan, Northern New Jersey and beyond to support users with financial exchanges, mobile backhaul and disaster recovery connectivity needs.

BT today announced that the Hong Kong Mercantile Exchange (HKMEx) has joined the BT Radianz Cloud community. HKMEx is now offering access to trade its range of commodity futures products as well as its market data feeds to BT’s financial cloud community, further attracting liquidity from international investors and strengthening Hong Kong’s position as a major financial centre.

smartTrade Technologies, an industry leader in cross-asset liquidity management software and solutions for banks, broker-dealers, asset managers, and large hedge funds, announces today that SBI Liquidity Market, a Japanese leading FX infrastructure solution and liquidity provider, has selected LiquidityFX, smartTrade’s FX trading system to provide the aggregation service and smart order routing to achieve best execution. SBI Liquidity Market chose smartTrade for its proven market reputation, sophisticated technology and rich experience in global market for tier-1 and tier-2 banks, brokers, asset managers and hedge funds.

Deutsche Börse today announced the formation of a new “Market Data +Services” segment that combines its Market Data & Analytics unit with its external technology and connectivity services. The Market Data + Services segment will be part of the division IT & MD+S headed by Executive Board Member Hauke Stars. The new segment is headed by Managing Director Holger Wohlenberg.

BittWare, the leader in Altera-based FPGA COTS boards, is pleased to announce that they have joined the Altera Preferred Board Partner Program for OpenCL. BittWare’s S5-PCIe-HQ (S5PH-Q) PCIe COTS board is optimized for the most current Altera device architectures and design software and is supported by Altera’s SDK for OpenCL. The S5PH-Q is a half-length PCIe card based on Altera’s high-performance 28-nm Stratix V FPGAs, providing a versatile and efficient solution for high-performance network processing, signal processing and data acquisition. BittWare is offering the S5PH-Q as part of their “OpenCL Developer’s Bundle”. The BittWare OpenCL Developer’s bundle provides users the highest quality out-of-box development environment based on Altera hardware, FPGA development tools, and peripheral hardware and software.