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Pete Harris

As anticipated, Bloomberg is opening up the interface via which it provides market data to other market data and application vendors, on a free-use basis. It's part of the vendor's Open Market Data Initiative, which also extends to market data symbology, as previously announced.

Pete Harris

Intel's planned acquisition of QLogic's InfiniBand business - announced last week - further advances its general 'world domination' plans in networking. And while its aspirations go way beyond low-latency trading, expect a trickle down that will over time impact how automated trading systems are implemented.

Pete Harris

Lime Brokerage has rolled out its LimeDirect pre-trade risk service - providing compliance for SEC rule 15c3-5 while adding minimal latency. But unlike competitive services, the offering - which Lime officials say is based on an "innovative blend of hardware and software" - does not leverage FPGA technology, because Lime technologists believe it is too inflexible in terms of rapid code development and ongoing maintenance.

Pete Harris

NYSE Technologies has gone live with dual Liquidity Centres in Toronto, the latest in the rollout of its network of trading hubs, following on from its primary operations in Mahwah, NJ, and Basildon, UK, and the more recent opening in Tokyo.

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Equinix Whitepaper 12 11M2M 2.0: Rewriting the Rules of Financial Trading Infrastructure

Written by Equinix.

The revolution of distributed trading and its applicability to all market participants is re-writing the rulebooks for trading infrastructure, enhancing agility and efficiency for both high and low frequency traders.

By understanding the competitive advantages of the new rules of Machine to Machine (M2M) 2.0, investment firms can trade smarter inside global multi-tenanted data centers to maximize trading performance, remove connection latency and drive profit from emerging global opportunities.

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When one thinks of low-latency messaging, it's companies like Tibco, Informatica, Solace that come to mind. But also in the mix is the stealthy 60East Technologies, about to release its latest version. Low-Latency.com got the scoop from co-founder Brand Hunt.

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