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Solarflare, the leader in application-intelligent 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) networking software and hardware, announced today the release of its 10GbE mezzanine adapter based on its latest generation of branded 10GbE products, optimized to accelerate Dell’s PowerEdge C6220 servers. Solarflare's SFN6832F dual-port server adapter delivers industry-leading 10GbE performance, offering the lowest application-to-application latency of 2.3μs and the highest message rate of 20 million packets per second (MPPS) with full TCP and UDP compatibility.

Solace Systems, the leading provider of high-performance messaging appliances, announced today their selection of Lab49, a leading provider of advanced custom technology solutions for the capital markets, as a key strategic partner for the delivery of Solace's technology in that market.

Corvil, a provider of monitoring and risk mitigation solutions for electronic trading firms today announced a new solution to help firms manage technology risk in their trading infrastructure. The CorvilNet Solution strengthens this kind of operational risk management by providing additional, independent barriers and check-points against technology-related hazards.

Intilop Inc., the leading developer and provider of advanced high complexity IPs, FPGAs/ASICs and system solutions in Network traffic acceleration and processing plus security and storage, today announced that the three patents filed with a total of 51 claims have been accepted by the US patent office.

RavenPack, the leading provider of real-time financial news analysis services, has launched a new version of its News Analytics product which, in addition to nearly doubling the number of corporate events tracked, now detects and analyzes news on global macroeconomic entities and events as they happen.

Deutsche Börse AG and CEE Stock Exchange Group (CEESEG) have recently concluded a major IT agreement. From mid-September 2012, Deutsche Börse IT will act as network operator for the largest stock exchange group in Central and Eastern Europe and provide its ExServes CEESEG FIX Connectivity solution for connecting customers to the CEESEG FIX Gateway.

Citi today announced that it has added new algorithmic trading functionality for U.S. equity options to its suite of advanced electronic trading strategies. The intelligent option algorithmic functionality expands upon Citi’s existing Option DMA and Option Algo Order Types. All of these strategies utilize Citi’s proprietary smart routing logic, which provides clients with unique liquidity and price improvement opportunities while avoiding information leakage.

Trading Technologies International (TT), a global provider of high-performance trading software for derivatives professionals, and Eris Exchange, a U.S.-based futures exchange, today announced that TT will offer a new gateway to connect its trading software to the Eris SwapBook electronic trading platform. With the new connection, which is currently targeted for release in the fourth quarter of 2012, TT customers will gain the ability to trade benchmark Eris Exchange Interest Rate Swap Futures and inter-market spreads through TT’s X_TRADER trading platform and related products.

FFastFill today announces the availability of ASX 24 derivatives on the FFastFill Horizon multi-broker network bringing local and global participants to the Sydney-based market. FFastFill Horizon provides firms with a cost effective, low latency route to market from access points throughout FFastFill’s global network of fifteen datacentre locations across Asia, Europe and the US. FFastFill Horizon provides the ability for non-member participants to access ASX 24 through FFastFill’s network of global exchange members.

Object Trading, an independent provider of global direct market access (DMA), today announced it has added the London Metal Exchange (LME), the world’s premier non-ferrous metals market, to its global exchange coverage network. Object Trading clients can now access the full range of futures and options contracts for non-ferrous, minor metals and steel traded on the exchange through its full suite of FrontRunner products.

Since 2011, the Fixed Income Connectivity Working Group (FICWG), an initiative comprising the global investment banks committed to increasing transparency and efficiency in the fixed income markets, has been working with the leading venues expected to register as Swap Execution Facilities (SEFs) under the US-based Dodd-Frank legislation and Organised Trading Facilities (OTFs) under the European MIFID II directive, to create a set of global best practices for the trading of IRS and CDS using open technical standards such the FIX Protocol and FpML.