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First Derivatives, a leading provider of software and consulting services to the capital markets industry, announces the launch of its Swap Execution Facility (SEF) initiative and the appointment of James Sanders as Chief Compliance Officer to oversee the Company’s registration as a SEF.

Trading Technologies International (TT) today announced that TT will introduce connectivity to GovEx, a trading platform for U.S. Treasury securities, in the first half of 2013. Providing a centrally cleared, high-performance platform, GovEx offers anonymity and diverse liquidity for those seeking access to U.S. Treasury securities, including highly-liquid on-the-run, when-issued and first-available off-the-run U.S. Treasury bills, notes and bonds. TT is a global provider of award-winning, high-performance derivatives trading software.

Options, the pioneering provider of the Options PIPE Private Financial Cloud, a managed infrastructure platform for the trading and alternative investment communities, announced today it has expanded connectivity to additional global foreign exchange markets and has upgraded connectivity between the major US trading venues.

Corvil, a provider of monitoring systems for the high-performance financial industry, today announced the general availability of its new Corvil Enterprise Monitoring System. The new solution is based on its flagship CorvilNet platform and delivers the same powerful combination of high speed data capture, distributed transaction-application-network monitoring, and real-time business analysis. New enterprise application transaction monitoring and an enterprise-reporting module are now included to support a broad range enterprise IT activities.

Lightspeed Financial, a leading provider of low latency direct market access trading technology, risk management solutions, and brokerage services for retail traders and institutions, today announced it is teaming with Chronos Technologies to offer the Iris Pairs Trading Software to Lightspeed clients.

ACTIV, a global provider of real-time, multi-asset financial market data and solutions, today announced it is deploying a ticker plant at the new co-location facility of Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE), wholly owned subsidiary of Japan Exchange (JPX) Group, which was established with TSE’s merger with Osaka Securities Exchange (OSE). The new offering will provide physical access to TSE FLEX Standard, FLEXFull, FLEX Full (WB) and Tdex+ feeds in raw or normalized outputs using ACTIV’s hardware-accelerated ticker plants. Additional market data feeds such as OSE, SBI Japannext and Chi-X Japan will also be available together with direct Pan-Asian markets via ActivFeed Direct, ACTIV’s low latency market data feed, or global exchange coverage from ACTIV’s consolidated feed services.

Solarflare, the leader in application-intelligent 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) networking software and hardware, today announced the release of its Firmware Development Kit (FDK) for the ApplicationOnload Engine (AOE). The launch of the FDK will enable developers and customers to more easily create and deploy customized applications in Altera's high-performance Stratix V FPGA onboard the AOE.

StreamBase Systems today announces that Geneva Energy Markets (GEM), one of the leading oil traders in the world, has deployed StreamBase for their automated trading infrastructure. The system helps GEM monitor, analyze and act on hundreds of thousands of trading opportunities every day, and has led to one of its most profitable trading periods in its history.

FixSpec announce the immediate availability of the world's first, multi-venue certification utility for the trading community. The utility gives developers the ability to make an internet connection to an interactive FIX service designed to replicate the message formats of a FIX counterparty such as an exchange or broker. Available all day, every day, developers can connect to the service on their own convenience, manually perform actions such as execute orders and cancel trades, and test their code against a certification script; all without needing to book a formal testing slot with the counterparty, saving a lot of wasted time for both parties.

FCM360 and TradeStation Institutional have just announced ultra-low latency connectivity and managed hosting solutions for traders that wish to connect to the TradeStation matching engine and execution network.

MDX Technology, a provider of real-time market data connectivity solutions, and Exegy, a provider of ultra-high performance hardware-accelerated market data appliances, have today announced a strategic partnership in response to customer demand to deliver Exegy’s market data via MDX Technology’s MDXT Connect into Microsoft Excel.

AOptix, a technology innovation company that leverages optics to transform wireless communications, and Anova Technologies, a company which builds dedicated low latency networks for the global trading industry, have formed a strategic partnership to deliver ultra-low latency wireless communications networks specifically for the financial industry.