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Deutsche Börse – Market Data & Analytics has made available its algorithmic news feed “AlphaFlash” in the CME Co-Location facility located in Chicago’s suburbs via its subsidiary Need to Know News. This is the second data center in the Chicago area that offers clients direct access to AlphaFlash. Two more access points in the U.S. are located in Secaucus (New Jersey) and Washington D.C.

OpenMAMA, a Linux Foundation Labs project, today announced the availability of OpenMAMA 2.1, the open source Middleware Agnostic Messaging API and the first neutral standard in data messaging for financial services.

Celoxica, producers of leading hardware-accelerated, low latency trading and market data solutions, has extended market coverage in European cash markets with the launch of feed handlers and single digit microsecond connectivity to the NYSE Euronext Cash Equity and Xetra exchanges. The firm has also announced its readiness to support the Chi-X user migration to the BATS Europe technology platform.

Last month's announcement by Arista Networks of its 7124FX Application Switch - which incorporates an Altera FPGA alongside low-latency network switching - has expanded the possibilities for system architects looking to incorporate hardware acceleration by running application code - such as algo trading - on FPGAs. It's also boosted the industry penetration of FPGA chipmaker Altera, over rival Xilinx.

Equiduct, the Pan European retail trading platform, today announced that its aggregated data feed, “Market-by-Limit”, which provides a consolidated view of the liquidity available throughout Europe, is now available through Interactive Data’s consolidated data feed, PlusFeed, as well as its Desktop and Managed Solutions products.

S&P Capital IQ, a business line of The McGraw-Hill Companies offering global multi-asset class data solutions, market research and portfolio risk analytics to global investors, today announced it has acquired QuantHouse, an independent global provider of market data and end-to-end systematic trading solutions. This includes ultra-low-latency market data technologies, algo-trading development frameworks, proximity hosting and order routing services for hedge funds, market makers, proprietary desks and latency-sensitive sell-side firms.

Fixnetix and NovaSparks announced today a strategic alliance to deliver a managed FPGA market data service for exchange collocation venues in the U.S. and Europe. The service will use the NovaSparks FPGA Market Data Matrix© feed handlers to offer customers the most predictable, lowest latency market data available in the market. This can be combined with Fixnetix iX-eCute FPGA Market Gateways for execution services.

Some 300 attended Tuesday's Low-Latency Summit, and for those here are some refreshes on proceedings. If you didn't make it, here's some of what you missed. 

Thomson Reuters today announced that its Elektron high-performance trading and data infrastructure has been selected by Dow Jones Indexes to power the index provider’s US index data business, which includes the iconic Dow Jones Industrial Average.

Recent announcements by both Celoxica and Redline Trading Solutions point to increasingly latency-sensitive high frequency trading strategies being deployed in the foreign exchange markets. To date, hardware acceleration has been focused on equities, futures and options trading.

Exegy, the market data appliance company, MarketPrizm, a leading provider of ultra low latency market data and trading infrastructure services, and the Financial Information Forum have announced today the launch of the first European website to track real-time market data rates every second of every trading day.

Celoxica recently extended its hardware accelerated data feed and execution platform to include foreign exchange and fixed income markets.  Low-Latency.com caught up with president Lee Staines to find out what's driving the development.