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Exegy, the hardware-accelerated market data appliance company announced today the release of the hosted edition of the Exegy Ticker Plant.

Trading software and connectivity specialist Ullink is working towards a late summer release of its "HFT in a Box" offering, which will combine a number of functions, including market data handlers, trading gateways, client algorithms, pre-trade risk controls and network connectivity, on to a single server, in order to minimise latency in the overall package.

NYSE Euronext's NYSE Technologies unit is partnering with latency monitoring specialist Corvil to launch LatencyStats.com, a website designed to expose latency figures for NYX (and potentially other) data feeds. Initially, the service - which is free and open access - is monitoring data from the NYSE ArcaBook and NYSE OpenBook markets, which have been determined to be especially latency sensitive.

ACTIV Financial, a leading global provider of fully managed low-latency market data solutions, today announced that Jefferies, a major global securities and investment banking firm and long-term ACTIV customer, has deployed ACTIV’s Market Data Processing Unit (MPU) to reduce its hardware footprint, enhance performance and lower its cost of ownership for market data services.

Solace Systems, the leading provider of hardware-based middleware, today announced a partnership with NovaSparks (formerly known as HPC Platform), specialists in low latency market data Ticker Plant and distribution systems. The integration of Solace's Unified Messaging Platform and NovaSparks' all-hardware FPGA-based Ticker Plant solutions will enable customers to achieve ultra low latency market data distribution with absolute and deterministic performance.

Hanweck Associates, a premier financial services provider specializing in risk management systems and technology for institutional investors, today announced its addition of European markets coverage to its high-performance, hardware-accelerated options analytics solution, VoleraFEED. Hanweck will now calculate and disseminate real-time options analytics, including implied volatilities and greeks, from Deutsche Börse’s Eurex derivatives market and Euronext through a strategic partnership with ACTIV Financial.

ALGO Technologies, the specialist trading technology firm that recently launched ALGO M2 the fastest matching engine in the world, is addressing the question of the fragmentation of exchange and trading venue data with the launch of ALGO DATA, a new in-house developed market data service for trading firms and exchanges. ALGO DATA offers fully distributed raw, normalised and consolidated market data feeds from all major European and US equities trading venues across its high speed, high bandwidth AlgoSpan exchange fibre optic network with extreme low latency.

Exegy, the hardware-accelerated market data appliance company, and Solace Systems, the leading provider of hardware-based middleware, announced today an alliance for market data collection and distribution. Large trading groups are increasingly using hardware-based systems to cope with the ever increasing volumes of market data, and traders need to collect and distribute data with extremely low, consistent latency. The Exegy Total Connect, Exegy's low-latency market data appliance, will work with the Solace Message Router to simplify the enterprise-wide distribution of market data.

Hanweck Associates, a premier financial services provider specializing in risk management systems and technology for institutional investors, and SpryWare, a premier provider of ultra low latency feed handlers and direct market data technology, today announced that they have integrated Hanweck’s high-performance, hardware-accelerated options analytics solution, VoleraFEED, with the SpryWare Market Information Server. The integration provides options market participants with the advanced computing power and access to fast, quality market data needed to deliver low-latency, real-time options analytics to drive advanced trading strategies. This new offerings adds to Hanweck’s existing VoleraFEED integrations, including ACTIV Financial’s ACTIVFeedDirect and IDC’s PlusFeed.

Market data rates could hit 64 million messages per second in five years if data rates and volumes continue their current surge, according to a panelist speaking at today's A-Team Group Insight Exchange conference in New York City.

NYSE Technologies has pushed its SuperFeed real-time market data delivery service into Brazil through a local distributor arrangement between NYSE Euronext and Brazilian telco Universal Telecom (Unitelco). The companies believe the move will bring Brazil’s investment market a step closer to the maturity of the US market, adding low-latency direct market data delivery to existing intermediary services from Bloomberg and Thomson Reuters, and meeting the needs of growing numbers of hedge funds, algorithmic traders, high-frequency traders and arbitragers operating in Brazil.

Deutsche Börse expands its data and news feed offering by launching AlphaFlash, the fastest currently available data feed for machine readable, trading relevant macroeconomic releases. AlphaFlash delivers more than 150 economic indicators from the US, Canada and Europe. Market participants use this data as triggers for their trading algorithms.