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S&P Capital IQ is expanding its real time presence through the establishment of a Singapore office for its QuantHouse operation, which provides global next generation trading solutions. This expansion reflects the need for S&P Capital IQ to support its growing client base in the region and to capture the demand for low latency services from a diverse range of businesses, spanning the US, Europe and Asia regions.

FIVE NEW RECORD PEAKS: NASDAQ TotalView – Aggregated, Deutsche Börse CEF Core Scoach, NYSE Amex Options, Deutsche Börse CEF Core Total and BATS Options MCASTPITCH AGG

Russell Indexes, a leading global index provider and NYSE Euronext, one of the world’s premier exchange operators and technology innovators, today announced a global alliance which will span three distinct NYSE Euronext business lines and multiple geographies, as well as several facets of Russell’s global index business. The agreement includes the transition of RussellTick, an index feed for real-time, intra-day values for the Russell family of indexes in the U.S. and globally, to NYSE Technologies’ Global Index Feed (GIF) protocol and extensive global distribution. Approximately $3.9 trillion in assets are currently benchmarked to the Russell Indexes globally. The alliance also includes a commitment to develop additional joint global services and products, such as new index-based options.

As of today, the Vienna Stock Exchange, a subsidiary of the CEE Stock Exchange Group (CEESEG) which also includes the stock exchanges of Budapest, Ljubljana and Prague, will start a new low latency market data service for vendors and other non-member parties interested in CEESEG low latency market data.

There are some great certainties in life, such as taxes, death and so on. But death rates and taxes can go up and down. Not so with market data. There is no argument. Data rates always go up.

FOUR NEW RECORD PEAKS: Deutsche Börse CEF Core Total, SIAC OPRA, Deutsche Börse CEF Core Eurex and BATS Options MCASTPITCH AGG

SpryWare, a premier provider of Ultra Low Latency feed handlers and direct market data technology, today announced the latest performance assessment of their Direct Market Server, DMS, its flagship Ticker Plant software technology. Combining software optimizations to their feed handler suite and utilizing the newest hardware on the market they were able to produce an impressive mean latency of 6.08 microseconds. The latency tests were performed on various live exchanges during morning market hours, in a production environment across 40 redundant multicast channels with full line arbitration.

FIX Protocol Ltd (FPL), the non-profit, industry standards organisation at the heart of the global electronic trading community, today published recommended standards for the consolidation of trade reports and market data for European equity markets. These industry-driven recommendations mark an important milestone in the development of a European Consolidated Tape. The recommendations provide eagerly-awaited guidance, explaining how trade reports could be published in a standard manner to enable data to be more easily consolidated, significantly enhancing transparency and quality of data. These factors will be pre-requisites for the delivery of a successful Consolidated Tape for the European markets.

More than 300 last week packed out the Low-Latency Summit in New York City, despite transit and workload challenges presented by the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. For those that attended, and the many others that wanted to, here are audio recordings (with slides where appropriate) of the keynotes, panels and workshops to enjoy over the long Thanksgiving weekend.

FIVE NEW RECORD PEAKS: NASDAQ TotalView – ITCH, Deutsche Börse CEF Core Eurex, BATS Options MCASTPITCHAGG, Deutsche Börse CEF Core Total and Direct Edge EDGX

Today, Bloomberg executives unveiled the Bloomberg App Portal, a new platform that gives Bloomberg subscribers access to a range of specialty applications powered by data and news from the Bloomberg Professional service.