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Trading Technologies International (TT) announced today that TT will connect its X_TRADER platform and related products to NASDAQ OMX NLX (NLX), a new London-based derivatives trading market.

NYSE Technologies, the commercial technology division of NYSE Euronext (NYX), today announced the appointment of Varghese Thomas as Senior Vice President and Global Head of Infrastructure Solutions. In this role, Mr. Thomas will be responsible for the development and management of a leading financial hosting, network and managed services business, which provides secure solutions for the global financial services community. The business supports customers with new innovations such as FIX as a Service, Time Series as a Service and other core managed solutions opportunities designed to lower costs and create business efficiencies. Based in New York, Mr. Thomas will work in close collaboration with NYSE Technologies’ Content and Liquidity Solutions teams reporting to COO, Terry Roche.

Informatica Corporation, the world’s number one independent provider of data integration software, today introduced Informatica Ultra Messaging SMX, the fastest and highest performing messaging software transport available based on performance benchmarking. Optimized for high speed electronic trading applications requiring the absolute lowest message latency and highest throughput, Ultra Messaging SMX delivers industry-leading sub-100 nanosecond latency with ultra-high throughput and scales linearly with message size and fan out.

BT and NZX today announced that the New Zealand market operator’s trading and market data services will now be accessible to members of the BT Radianz Cloud community. Responding to increased demand from domestic and international markets, this move will make it easier and faster for global investors to access NZX services.

smartTrade Technologies, a leading global liquidity management solution company, today announced that Koscom, leader of financial IT solution in Korea, has selected smartTrade’s Liquidity Management System (LMS) to offer aggregation and smart order routing to their clients.

Integral Development, a leading provider of FX trading solutions and services, announced today that David Faulkner has joined the firm as global segment head, banks. He will be focused on further innovating on Integral’s products and services for that particular segment of the market and orchestrate the work of a variety of internal stakeholders to deliver additional synergies to customers. Faulkner joins from EBS where he spent the last nine years in various executive roles. He will be based in Integral’s London office.

Integral Development, a leading provider of FX trading solutions and services, announced today the issuance of U.S. Patent No. 8,417,622. In the recently issued patent, Integral has received additional protection to supplement and extend its earlier patents. Patents issued reassure Integral’s customers that the technology solutions and systems which they are using to conduct their business were designed in such unique ways that they warrant the legal protection afforded by the exclusivity secured by a U.S. patent. It is also a testament to Integral’s technology innovation. Integral will continue to protect its intellectual property, and the rights of its customers who use its systems and technology.

MarketPrizm, a leading provider of market data and trading infrastructure services, today announced that it will provide market data and execution connectivity across Europe for NASDAQ OMX NLX ("NLX"). NLX, the new London derivatives market, will offer a range of both short- and long-term interest rate (STIRs and LTIRs) euro- and sterling-based listed derivatives products, subject to Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) approval.

MTS, a leading European electronic fixed income marketplace, today announced plans to launch a platform for U.S. institutional investors. The platform will enable U.S. buy-side participants to directly access real-time pricing from one of the deepest liquidity pools in Europe for the first time, and execute European and U.S. government, agency, mortgage, and corporate bonds with major dealers.