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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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>