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Dow Jones has enhanced its Dow Jones Elementized News Feed, adding public company data in a computer readable format. The XML-based feed is designed to be used for algorithmic trading, quantitative analysis and execution management applications.
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Reuters has increased the number of venues available via Reuters Data Feed Direct (RDF-Direct) by adding nine new feeds to its direct exchange data service across America, Europe and Asia.
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Event processing specialist Aleri is partnering with low-latency market data service Fixnetix to offer a combined market data/analysis service.

Fixnetix’s data services shave hundreds of milliseconds off typical transmission times, delivering an optimised end-to-end solution over a dedicated Ethernet network. “By combining our technologies we can provide increased efficiency from the initial data feed to processing and analyzing multiple data sets, allowing clients to react and respond instantly and to minimize risk and increase competitive advantage,” said Don DeLoach, CEO of Aleri.

Aleri News Release

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If you’ve been in the industry as long as I’ve been here, then you too probably are aware that many new hot concepts have a familiar, and dated, ring to them. I was at a WFIC session on direct feeds last week when a panelist from JP Morgan Chase commented that direct feeds caused him “the most pain, sometimes for seemingly little gain.” That took me back …
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Quant House is now providing full depth data from the London Stock Exchange, combining its feed handler technology and global fibre optic network with the Exchange’s Infolect real-time market data delivery system. Infolect processes more than 15 million messages a day with a latency of two milliseconds per message. Quant House will deliver sub-millisecond connectivity of the Infolect data stream to hedge funds and latency sensitive financial institutions in Chicago, New York, Paris, Frankfurt and London through their single Application Program Interface.

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Savvis has launched Savvis Exchange Express, providing ethernet access to direct datafeeds from the American Stock Exchange and SFTI (Secure Financial Transaction Infrastructure). Deploying ethernet from the customer location directly to Savvis data centers removes extraneous hardware that typically creates additional delay. Savvis manages the hardware at the customer premises, providing 24×7 monitoring and notification.

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Fixnetix has struck a global distribution deal with EuroMTS, the pan-European electronic trading platform for government and quasi-government Eurobenchmark bonds. Fixnetix will deliver EuroMTS fixed income data direct to financial firms over its iX-Direct low latency market data service.
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Thomson Financial will use Radianz Ultra Access from the newly-named BT Global Financial Services as an ultra low latency source of U.S. exchange data for its new Thomson Data Feed (TDF). TDF is hosted at BT GFS’s Radianz Proximity center in New York City. Using Radianz Ultra Access reduces TDF latency by 50 percent, and enables transaction speeds of less than one millisecond per round trip between local market participants and market data/transaction venues.

Technorati Tags: bt, radianz, thomson financial, tdf

Trading platform vendor TradingScreen has integrated Interactive Data Corp.’s DirectPlus with its Tradesmart offering. DirectPlus provides access to sub-one millisecond data from a range of sources, such as NYSE Openbook (including “Best Quotes”), Nasdaq Level 1 and SingleBook, ArcaBook and Direct Edge ECN. By offering access to this ultra-low latency data directly within its platform, TradingScreen can help enable customers to more efficiently develop and execute their algorithmic trading strategies.
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Aegis Software’s Athena execution management system has been certified to connect with The Intercontinental Exchange’s iMpact datafeed. iMpact provides faster connectivity to ICE pricing, and is seen as the replacement for ICE’s FIX interface to market data. Support for ICE’s iMpact is available immediately from Aegis.
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