Pan-European multilateral trading facility (MTF) BATS Europe has chosen technology firm QuantHouse to provide it with real-time market data feeds from other European trading venues. read more »
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End in sight for European post-trade data impasse
The London Stock Exchange is considering the possibility of joining NYSE Euronext in unbundling post-trade data, a move that would help to clear one of the key obstacles to a consolidated tape for Europe. read more »
SunGard offers data choice to algo clients
Trading technology provider SunGard has integrated its smart order router (SOR) and algorithms with market data from low-latency data vendor QuantHouse. read more »
Markit to cut delay for free BOAT data
Market data firm Markit plans to reduce the delay on free data from its BOAT European over-the-counter equities trade reporting and data service to 15 minutes from 1 June. read more »
Bloomberg bolsters machine-readable news offering
Data vendor and trading technology provider Bloomberg has unveiled new analytics functionality for its BN Direct machine-readable news service. read more »
Markit BOAT to flag liquidity to drowning traders
Financial information company Markit is planning to improve the flagging of the post-trade data disseminated by its BOAT over-the-counter (OTC) equities trade reporting and market data service to allow buy-side traders to distinguish available flow more easily. read more »
Citi joins dark pool reporting drive
Citigroup has become the latest investment bank to throw its support behind greater transparency of dark pools by reporting historical trading conducted on its internal crossing engine, Citi Match. read more »
New Smart Trade tool offers aggregated view of liquidity
Trading solutions vendor Smart Trade has introduced customisable consolidated order book functionality for its LiquidityAggregator engine, which will allow real-time consolidation of trade, order and quote data across multiple trading venues and platforms. read more »
Interactive Data improves latency for high-speed traders
Market data and analytics provider Interactive Data has upgraded its client site processor (CSP), which it claims will improve financial messaging processing performance by 70% read more »
Still greater light must be shed on dark volumes, say buy-side
European buy-side traders have welcomed recent steps by brokers to provide more transparency on dark pool trading activity, but more accurate real-time post-trade data remains a distant aspiration. read more »



