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Following on from the recent 'real-life' benchmarking of its Nexus 3548 switch, Cisco Systems has published a white paper on accelerating market data, working with AdvancedIO Systems and MayStreet.

Thomson Reuters has expanded its next-generation consolidated feed, Elektron Real Time, to Frankfurt to provide regional market participants with full tick depth-of-market data from multiple venues around the world. The development is the next step in the Company’s plans to roll the new high-performance feed out globally, following deployment in London, New York, Chicago and Tokyo.

Exegy has made its Data Tone service, providing low-latency market data, available at NYSE Euronext's Mahwah, NJ data centre, and at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange's data centre in Aurora, Il. Data Tone provides low cost feeds as a service, leveraging Exegy's ticker plant.

Linking its hardware accelerated ticker plant to StreamBase System's complex event processing (CEP) software, Exegy is addressing different trading strategies with one solution, says chief scientist Scott Parsons. "Is this a play about big data or low latency? The answer is yes."

Exegy and StreamBase today announce a partnership that allows firms to develop and deploy their algorithms in multiple asset classes at high speed. The technology partnership enables banks and hedge funds to manage the ever increasing amounts of equities, FX, futures, and options data needed for algorithmic trading strategies, back testing, pricing, and smart order routing, and to do so at competitive speeds.

Recent developments from providers of machine readable news and sentiment analysis, and their partners, point to increasing take up of this segment of market data, and how its applicability is expanding both in terms of content type and trading markets served.

Tick42, a leading market data technology specialist, today announced the release of its first production-ready open source Bloomberg Bridge for OpenMAMA. This bridge will enable clients using the OpenMAMA API, including NYSE Technologies’ SuperFeed and Enterprise Software clients, to gain direct systems access to Bloomberg data, including data from their Bloomberg Terminal.

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NYSE Euronext announced today that it has reached a settlement agreement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) relating primarily to alleged violations by New York Stock Exchange of Rule 603(a) of Regulation NMS, a rule governing the timing of delivery of certain exchange market data. The SEC also alleged that NYSE failed to retain certain computer files in violation of SEC record-keeping requirements. NYSE Euronext entered into the settlement without admitting or denying the SEC’s allegations. In accordance with the settlement, NYSE Euronext has agreed to pay a $5 million fine, to retain an independent consultant to evaluate NYSE Euronext’s U.S. exchanges’ current Rule 603(a) compliance systems, and to implement the consultant’s recommended improvements.

Nasdaq has gone live with a version of its TotalView Itch full depth equities feed driven by FPGA technology. The feed is being directed at trading firms that are particularly latency sensitive, with no queuing during data bursts that occur at peak trading periods.

Redline Trading Solutions today announced InRush 3, its next-generation Accelerated Ticker Plant.

Interxion Holding, a leading European provider of carrier-neutral colocation data centre services, has announced that Sinara Consultants, a leading software house to the financial marketplace, has relocated its hosted Market Data Platform to Interxion’s London data centre campus. Sinara has also moved many of its own development systems and test beds into Interxion’s London site.