FIF CAPACITY STATISTICS FOR February 2010: NEW RECORD PEAKS for SIAC CTS, NASDAQ TotalView Aggregated, DAP, ITTO, BX TotalView ITCH 3.1 and UTDF, BATS Europe PITCH.

This month’s bulletin from the Financial Information Forum (FIF) finds that SIAC CTS hit a new record of 49,570 mps over 1 second, up 66% from the previous month.

NASDAQ TotalView Aggregated was up 48% with a new record peak of 47,456 mps over 5 second

NASDAQ UTDF was up 2%, hitting a new record of 15,915 mps over 1 second

NASDAQ BX TotalView ITCH 3.1 was up 1%, hitting a record peak of 50,398 mps over 1 second

On the Options side, NASDAQ DAP hit a record peak of 184,664 mps over 1 second, up 26%

NASDAQ ITTO was up a record 22% at 186,953 mps over 1 second

BATS Europe PITCH was up 10% at a record 96,949 mps over 1 second

The next meeting of the FIF MD Capacity WG is scheduled for March 18^th @ 10:00 AM ET.

The FIF provides key data points for market data rates. Percentage increases based on a comparison between January and February 1 second peaks (unless specified). Monthly data for OPRA, CTA, UTP, BATS U.S. and Europe, NASDAQ Proprietary, LSE, Euronext, NYSE ArcaBook Equities and Options, CME Group, Toronto and Deutsche Börse feeds are available for FIF members at http://www.fif.com/md_capacity