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Celoxica, a leading provider of ultra low latency market data, order entry and pre trade risk solutions for high frequency traders and brokers, today announced the latest extension to its hardware accelerated market data products with the launch of the Generic Book Accelerator or GBA product line for the US markets.

Quincy Data, a recognized leader in low latency market data, is pleased to announce the addition of the Slough LD4 co-location center to its growing list of distribution sites. The latency for CME Group data delivery in LD4 will be the lowest known for a publicly available service. The underlying network—combining microwave and fiber—delivers select CME data in 36.40 milliseconds rack to rack.

RavenPack, the leading provider of real-time financial news analysis services, announces the launch of RavenPack Labs, a service dedicated to making news analytics available to a broader range of financial institutions.

NYSE Technologies, the commercial technology division of NYSE Euronext, today announced the launch of NYSE BQT (Best Quote & Trades), a consolidated XDP feed that provides a real-time, unified view of Level 1 market data, including Best Bid/Offer and Last Sale information for the NYSE, NYSE Arca, and NYSE MKT exchanges including NASDAQ issues traded on NYSE Arca and NYSE MKT. NYSE BQT is a more flexible and affordable alternative to the range of expensive Level 1 market data offerings currently available.

Enyx is pleased to announce its FPGA solution for CME Group data feeds has been selected by Quincy Data for its industry-leading “QED” microwave-based market data service. The QED service sources data from multiple exchanges and delivers a normalized and integrated feed to exchange matching engine colocation and proximity data centers.

The NASDAQ OMX Group, today announced it has enhanced UltraFeed to include U.S. equity market depth data from NASDAQ, NYSE Euronext, Direct Edge and BATS exchanges. Included in UltraFeed's equity depth data is NASDAQ TotalView, a product that displays The NASDAQ Stock Market's full order book. TotalView features Net Order Imbalance information for NASDAQ's opening and closing crosses as well as for the IPO and halt crosses, insight that can help reveal new trading opportunities.

ONE NEW RECORD PEAK: BATS CHI-X Europe CXE PITCH

This month’s bulletin from the Financial Information Forum (FIF) finds that BATS CHI-X Europe CXE PITCH was up 50% to a record 99,042 mps over the 1 second interval

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.

THREE NEW RECORD PEAKS: Deutsche Börse CEF Ultra + Xetra, BATS Options MCASTPITCH AGG and NYSE AMEX Options.

QuantHouse, S&P Capital IQ’s Real Time operation and the global provider of next generation trading solutions, has partnered with the European arm of leading Russian financial institution BCS Financial Group (‘BCS’), to launch low latency market data for MICEX-RTS – Russia’s main equity market. In addition, BCS is leveraging its trading infrastructure and advanced algo-trading development tools.

NYSE Technologies, the commercial technology division of NYSE Euronext, and Social Market Analytics (SMA) today announced an agreement to distribute sentiment statistics from SMA’s patent-pending social media monitoring engine through NYSE Technologies SFTI Network, and its normalized market data service, SuperFeed. Social media has become a crucial source of information for the financial services community, in addition to corporate analytics groups in the non-financial sector. The SMA Sentiment Signature Feed will offer customers a first-of-a-kind tool for including social media sentiment in their market analysis and decision-making processes.

Enyx leader in FPGA accelerated market data feeds is expanding commercial coverage into Asia during 2013. Connectivity to Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE Arrowhead) is already available with KRX (Korean Options and Futures), HKex Orion (HK Equities and Derivatives) and ASX Itch (Australian Equities and options) in development for delivery to clients during 2013.