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May 21, 2012

ICAP, the world’s leading interdealer broker, is pleased to announce that it has agreed to acquire PLUS Stock Exchange (“PLUS”), the smaller company equity exchange for £1 in cash subject to PLUS Markets Group shareholder consent and FSA approvals.

May 21, 2012

Quote MTF,the lit trading venue for Pan-European equities, today launched QUBE, a turnkey hosting and outsourcing solution for equities crossing venues under an MTF regulatory framework.

May 21, 2012

Renaissance Capital, an emerging markets investment bank, has joined the SunGard Global Network (SGN) trading community. Renaissance Capital will be able to provide brokerage services for the Russian markets to the more than 2,000 asset managers and 530 brokers linked by SunGard’s international trading network.

May 18, 2012

Juniper Networks, the industry leader in network innovation, today announced that a carrier-class switching infrastructure based on the Juniper Networks QFabric architecture will be deployed at a new data center being built by Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEx). The new Hosting Services Data Center, scheduled for completion by the third quarter of 2012, is designed to provide exchange participants with equal, ultra-low latency access to HKEx markets and information.

May 17, 2012

FlexTrade Systems, a global leader in broker-neutral, multi-asset execution and order management systems, today announced it has become an approved Independent Software Vendor (ISV) with SIX Swiss Exchange.

May 17, 2012

The NASDAQ OMX Group, today announced the launch of Express Connect, a low latency, point-to-point network solution offering connectivity from the NASDAQ OMX Data Center in the U.S. to major financial trading and co-location venues in New York, New Jersey, Chicago and Canada.

May 17, 2012

NYSE Technologies, the commercial technology division of NYSE Euronext, today announced the global expansion of its successful Capital Markets Community Platform into Europe. Operating from NYSE Euronext’s European Liquidity Centre in Basildon (UK), the cloud based Community Platform was designed and developed in partnership with leading computing experts EMC and VMware.

May 16, 2012

Broadway Technology, a leader in high-performance trading solutions for top-tier global banks and hedge funds, announced today that in response to Dodd-Frank regulations and the emergence of Swap Execution Facilities (SEFs), Broadway is set to launch turnkey liquidity aggregation, straight-through processing (STP), and e-commerce solutions for six Interest Rate Swaps markets in June 2012.

May 16, 2012

euNetworks Group, today announced an upgrade to its European long haul transport platform, delivering a 100 Gigabit (G) capable network to market. euNetworks has invested in this next generation of network due to customer demand, both for greater capacity and 100G circuits. The Company has selected Ciena as its equipment supplier and deployed Ciena’s 6500 Packet-Optical Platform with WaveLogic coherent optical processors. This platform enables a simple upgrade to 100G transmission and beyond without any network infrastructure changes.

May 16, 2012

Zayo Group announces it is enhancing its low latency service between Seattle and Chicago. The improved performance on the route will give Financial, Content and Carrier customers a material latency reduction from what is currently available.

May 15, 2012

Progress Software Corporation today announced that China's largest investment bank by market value, CITIC Securities Co., has selected the Progress Apama algorithmic trading platform to enable it to offer its institutional investor clients low-latency, algorithmic and high-frequency trading strategies customized to their requirements.

May 15, 2012

StreamBase Systems today announces that GAIN Capital has deployed StreamBase LiveView for liquidity optimization and back-office risk monitoring. The StreamBase LiveView Analytics Server enables GAIN Capital to access a single real-time view of market liquidity and quickly deploy analytics to help GAIN ensure efficient and optimal liquidity provision.

May 15, 2012

The NASDAQ OMX Group, announced that the Kuwait Stock Exchange (KSE) has successfully rolled out its new NASDAQ OMX powered trading platform. KSE's new trading platform is based on NASDAQ OMX's proven X-stream technology and will initially support trading of cash equities and forwards, with additional derivatives products and bonds to be added in the next phase. NASDAQ OMX has also provided KSE with index calculation technology and a SMARTS powered surveillance solution.

May 15, 2012

Mantara, a provider of advanced ultra-low latency trading solutions, today announced that it has acquired UNX, a supplier of innovative broker-neutral EMS technology. High-frequency traders and others can now benefit from access to an open and flexible EMS coupled with Mantara's flagship pre-trade risk functionality and ultra-low latency direct market access.

May 15, 2012

MarketPrizm, a leading provider of market data and trading infrastructure services, today announced it will provide hosting and connectivity solutions for financial institutions seeking access to GETCO Execution Services Europe (GES Europe), GETCO’s centrally cleared broker crossing network for European equities.

May 15, 2012

Ciena Corporation, the network specialist, today announced that Perseus Telecom, a global provider of connectivity, has selected Ciena’s equipment, software and services to build an end-to-end, ultra low-latency network between the U.S. and Europe. Combining metro networks in the global financial hubs of New York City, New Jersey, London and Frankfurt, as well as a trans-Atlantic submarine connection, the resulting ultra low-latency network enables Perseus to offer its customers one of the most direct and lowest latency services between the U.S. and Europe.

May 14, 2012

Deutsche Börse – Market Data & Analytics has launched AlphaFlash Trader, a new trading application that delivers ‘drag and drop’ automated event driven trading to popular execution platforms. The new tool is already available to traders using the X_TRADER Pro platform from Trading Technologies International, Inc. and will be adapted to other execution platforms going forward. With the launch of AlphaFlash Trader, machine-readable news becomes accessible to a new client group. Deutsche Börse is therefore enabling more traders to execute automated trades based on macroeconomic indicators.

May 14, 2012

Gnodal, the high performance network switch provider, named former Cisco and Fortinet marketing veteran Atchison Frazer as its first Chief Marketing Officer. Frazer brings to Gnodal more than 20 years of enterprise-segment strategic marketing experience, most recently as marketing leader for Cisco's Global Enterprise services business.

May 14, 2012

McObject, provider of the eXtremeDB In-Memory Database System (IMDS) and related product family, announced today that the company has joined the STAC Benchmark Council, a group of trading firms and vendors specifying standard methods for measuring the performance of trading systems. Driven by end-user firms, STAC Benchmarks are the best-known technology specifications designed to measure the capabilities of competing solutions in today’s high speed trading environment. Technology addressed by the benchmarks includes ticker plants, trading platforms, order management systems, risk management systems, and more.

May 14, 2012

Orange Business Services - Trading Solutions, the leader in voice and electronic trading infrastructure and services for the trading communities today announced a new deal with Fidessa group, a provider of high-performance trading, investment management and information solutions for the world’s financial community. Under this deal, Fidessa clients can now use Trading Solutions’ financial extranet, TCSnet, directly from Fidessa's European Data Centres to satisfy their demanding high performance, highly resilient global connectivity needs.

May 14, 2012

Sidera Networks, the premier provider of fiber optic-based network solutions, announces the availability of low latency connectivity from the New York Metro market to Toronto, Canada and London, England. By extending its Xtreme Ultra-Low Latency Network internationally, Sidera provides a strategic advantage to financial services firms, exchanges, and other high bandwidth customers who value low latency for applications such as electronic trading and real-time content distribution. The new low latency routes also provide diversity from Sidera’s existing routes to Toronto and London.

May 14, 2012

TMX Atrium, provider of smarter infrastructure solutions for the financial community, today announced that it has expanded its infrastructure and is delivering Canadian market data into the Equinix NY4 data centre in Secaucus, New Jersey.

May 14, 2012

Tradition-ICAP, the world's leading voice broker and electronic platform for the trading of interdealer currency options, today announced that it has appointed Tim Johnson as Head of Business Development in Asia.

Johnson will be based at Tradition’s offices in Hong Kong and Singapore, where he will report directly to Terry Benson, Global Head of Business Development at Tradition-ICAP. Tim’s main responsibility will be to promote and expand the company’s electronic broking platform, Volbroker, the leading electronic trading venue for the FX options market./p>

May 11, 2012

Intilop, a pioneer and a recognized leader in providing complex Ultra-Low latency networking IP building blocks and systems, today announced the release of their new Ultra-Low latency 4th Gen 10G Nano-TOE. This product announcement extends their leadership of more than 3 years in providing Ultra-Low-Latency Full TCP Offload technology and solutions. Their mature, network proven, and real-time deployed series of TOE's have been implemented in hundreds of networks worldwide.