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Equinix, the global interconnection and data center company, together with FastMatch, an Electronic Communication Network (ECN) for foreign exchange trading, today announced the launch of a new ECN matching engine in Equinix’s London Slough International Business Exchange (IBX) data center campus.

TMX Atrium, provider of smarter infrastructure solutions for the financial community, today announced that SS&C Technologies Holdings, (SS&C) has joined the TMX Atrium community.

Azul Systems, the award-winning leader in Java runtime scalability, today entered into a technical partnership with Solarflare, a leader in application-intelligent 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) networking software and hardware. The partnership will provide an integrated runtime platform for financial services companies that will improve throughput, lower latency and eliminate jitter for Java applications.

Telx, a leading provider of global interconnectivity, cloud enablement services and datacenter solutions, today announced at SIFMA Tech 2013 that Javelin Capital Markets, an OTC derivatives execution platform, has leveraged Telx's network & interconnection rich Cloud Connection Center, "CHI1" at 350 East Cermak Road, Chicago, Illinois, providing Javelin with access to Telx's extensive Financial Services community. As a colocation and interconnection client in Telx's strategically located data center in downtown Chicago, Javelin can now offer Telx's financial community high-performance connectivity to derivatives execution platforms for Interest Rate Swaps and Credit Default Swaps. Javelin offers both anonymous electronic and voice-hybrid methodologies for trade execution.

CIARA Technologies, global provider of Performance Computing products, technologies, software, and optimization announces today the launch and worldwide availability of the ORION HF (High Frequency) server line dedicated to the financial services industry.

Celoxica, a leading provider of ultra low latency market data, order entry and pre-trade risk solutions for market data, order entry and pre-trade risk solutions for automated trading firms and brokers, today announced the hire of Diane Saucier, to head its business development in the US.

Selerity, a provider of real-time intelligence & event data solutions for the financial services industry, today announced the launch of its low latency US earnings date announcements (EDA) event data feed for automated equity options traders.

Software AG today announced that it has executed an agreement with Progress Software to acquire Apama, the market leading platform for Complex Event Processing (CEP) and CEP-powered solutions. Apama CEP allows organizations to correlate and analyze business activities across multiple data streams in real-time and take immediate action in response. The high performance Apama CEP platform together with Software AG’s low-latency messaging and in-memory technology will enable customers to gain maximum value from real-time business data in any business area where sub-second response times to events are critical; such as fraud detection, capital markets trading or customer experience management. In addition, Apama CEP will enable customers to fully design, test, monitor and control the industrial internet to a new level of precision and at a new level of intelligence.

ConvergEx Group, a leading provider of global brokerage and trading-related services, today announced that ConnEx, its outsourced hosted connectivity infrastructure business, has launched an updated version of its pre-trade risk management system, ConnEx Risk Management. ConnEx customers now have access to an expanded set of tools that provide additional risk checks with reduced latency and an improved user interface to help them manage their internal market access risk strategy.

Knowsis is the first service provider that can prove analytics, based on listening into social media, actually works. Rigorous testing by the data and analytics firm has established that a trading strategy utilising social media sentiment data significantly outperforms one that does not. The results have been corroborated by a number of leading quantitative funds. It is the first time proof of this kind has been provided in a real trading environment.

Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) today introduced its Generation 10 FPGAs and SoCs (system-on-chip), offering system developers breakthrough levels of performance and power efficiencies. Generation 10 devices are optimized based on process technology and architecture to deliver the industry’s highest performance and highest levels of system integration at the lowest power. Initial Generation 10 families include Arria® 10 and Stratix® 10 FPGAs and SoCs with embedded processors. Generation 10 devices leverage the most advanced process technologies in the industry, including Intel’s 14-nm Tri-Gate process and TSMC’s 20 nm process. Early access customers are currently using the Quartus® II software for Generation 10 product development.

TIBCO Software Inc. (TIBX), a leader in the application integration and SOA infrastructure market, today announced the latest version of its flagship extreme low-latency messaging platform, TIBCO FTL® 3.1, which introduces the power of in-memory technology to bring new levels of reliability to persistent messaging. Drawing from over two decades of experience in providing communication and messaging solutions to the financial services industry, TIBCO FTL 3.1 provides a powerful messaging platform that delivers unmatched performance to any industry, where time is crucial to remaining competitive. In addition to the financial services industry, TIBCO FTL 3.1 can be leveraged by any industry facing ever-increasing data volumes, including logistics and transportation companies, government, power and utilities companies and the high-tech manufacturing industry, to name a few.