Equities

Financial IT firm Savvis and telecoms group Orange have both established new links to alternative trading platforms, as demand for low-latency trading connectivity grows.

Improved smart order routing (SOR) technology and a consolidated tape of European pre-trade data will help Chi-X Europe, the first displayed pan-European multilateral trading facility, which celebrates its second birthday today, build on its existing success, according to the platform’s management.

Japanese investment bank Nomura has connected its ModelEx equities electronic trading platform in Asia to TradingScreen, a provider of execution management systems (EMSs) to the buy-side.

Pan-European multilateral trading facility (MTF) Nasdaq OMX Europe will launch a new equity stake incentive programme in June in a bid to encourage more trading on the platform.

Market data solutions provider Vhayu Technologies has launched Velocity TCA, a real-time transaction cost analysis (TCA) tool for the buy-side.

Have benchmark-hitting algorithms such as VWAP had their day? While more sophisticated, liquidity-seeking strategies might seem more suited to today’s unpredictable trading environment, responses to theTRADEnews.com’s March poll tell a different story.

French investment bank Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking (SocGen CIB) has launched Alpha x Europe, an internal crossing engine for buy-side client order flows, in response to buy-side concerns about market fragmentation, rising trading costs, and gaming in dark pools.

EuroCCP, the European central counterparty service operated by US clearing house DTCC, has reduced its clearing and risk management fees to attract more business to the trading platforms it supports.

Atrium Network, a financial connectivity provider, has added agency brokerage Instinet Europe to its extranet community, granting the broker low-latency connectivity to multilateral trading facilities

US trading venues BATS Exchange and Direct Edge put further competitive pressure on their traditional exchange rivals, Nasdaq OMX and NYSE Euronext, this week by announcing fee cuts on the same day.