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June 19, 2013

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.

June 19, 2013

Fixnetix, global managed services provider for ultra-low latency market data, trading and risk control, announced today the launch of ix-eCute, the pre-trade risk FPGA microchip for ultra-low latency execution for the Canadian cash markets. Fixnetix is also pleased to announce the leading Canadian investment bank has contracted for iX-Eye, the risk command and control graphical user interface (GUI) integrated with the new FPGA iX-eCute. This solution is now live and trading markets TSX, TMX Select, TMX venture, Alpha, Matchnow and Chi-X Canada.

June 19, 2013

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.

June 19, 2013

TLV networks reports that their ultra-low latency microwave network was able to meet its 99.99% reliability and up-time standard during the severe storms that battered the Midwest over the past several weeks. The network did not experience any down-time or outages.

June 18, 2013

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.

June 18, 2013

CFN Services, a leading provider of managed IT services to the financial services industry, announced the debut of TradingHUB, the company’s highly secure cloud connecting liquidity venues worldwide with one single connection. As a vital source of connectivity for leading, security-conscious financial services players, TradingHUB safely connects buy-side and sell-side firms to global liquidity, while providing access to the advanced trading, analytics and data services available on CFN’s Alpha Platform.

June 18, 2013

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.

June 18, 2013

TMX Atrium, provider of smarter infrastructure solutions for the financial community, today announced that it has upgraded its connectivity to Knight Hotspot FX, in response to client demand.

June 17, 2013

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.

June 17, 2013

Enyx together with Custom Connect Microwave (CCMW) have delivered an innovative technology service enabling a low latency microwave link to be shared equally amongst multiple users. The appliance is able to divide the microwave pure layer 1 bandwidth into segments of 10 Mbps with the lowest possible latency.

June 17, 2013

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.

June 17, 2013

TMX Atrium, provider of smarter infrastructure solutions for the financial community, today announced that Raptor Trading, (Raptor) has connected to TMX Atrium in Toronto to take advantage of low latency access to Canadian exchange market data.

June 17, 2013

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.

June 13, 2013

GuavaTech, a leading managed service provider specializing in customized IT solutions for proprietary trading firms, investment banks, hedge funds, broker/dealers, and FCMs, today announced that it will begin offering proximity hosting and ultra-low latency connectivity solutions for CBOE Futures Exchange (CFE) at the LD4 data center located in London, UK.

June 13, 2013

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.

June 12, 2013

Accelize, the industry leader in ultra-low latency, FPGA-based network processing cards and Enyx, a leading provider of turnkey FPGA-based solutions for trading firms, today announced immediate availability of a fully integrated, FPGA contained, trading platform aimed at financial firms looking for high performance trading solutions. The platform enables unparalleled tick-to-trade latency by integrating every element of the trading flow into a single PCI Express low profile FPGA board that will easily fit into any standard server.

June 12, 2013

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.

June 12, 2013

DataFluidics™, the innovative provider of ultra-low latency technology today announced the general availability of Reflex™, a revolutionary data processing platform for financial institutions. In increasingly fragmented markets where volume-driven automated strategies span time zones and hunt razor-thin windows of opportunities, modern trading desks can no longer be satisfied with the ability to make split-second decisions based on a single market data feed. Traders can no longer rely on single-exchange connectivity either. The new frontier of profitability dictates that advanced trading firms combine and analyze several data sources to reach a decision and instantly dispatch orders to multiple destinations. Yet many current infrastructures remain tied to legacy paradigms of single-input / single-destination whose performance dramatically erodes if multi-channel logic is retrofitted into them. Firms can no longer capture profits.

June 12, 2013

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.

June 12, 2013

TMX Atrium, provider of smarter infrastructure solutions for the financial community, today announced the connection of SuperDerivatives to NASDAQ OMX’s London-based trading venue, NLX.

June 11, 2013

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.

June 11, 2013

Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection and data center company, today announced that  CNSX Markets Inc. (CNSX Markets) has deployed a point of presence (PoP) in Equinix’s TR1 International Business Exchange (IBX®) data center in Toronto, Canada.

June 11, 2013

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.

June 11, 2013

TIBCO Software Inc. (NASDAQ: TIBX) today announced it has acquired StreamBase Systems, Inc., a privately held provider of high performance event processing and real-time analytics software. StreamBase enables companies to rapidly build, test, and deploy real-time applications for streaming big data. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed.