Equities

Alpha Trading Systems, a Canadian alternative trading system launched late last year, has established a connection to Transaction Network Services’ (TNS) extranet.

Oppenheimer & Co, a US broker-dealer, has implemented SunGard’s Brass Liquidity Services algorithmic suite to help improve trading performance for its clients.

Order routing provider Nunami Services is supplying Reg NMS outbound order routing services for a portion of the NYSE Euronext’s NYSE and Alternext equity trading floors.

Thomson Reuters has added two Brazilian and two Mexican brokers to its order routing network.

Neonet, a Swedish-based agency brokerage and technology provider, has confirmed it is in exploratory discussions with a “counterpart”, widely tipped to be German exchange operator Deutsche Börse.

Global trading solutions provider QuantHouse has launched a low-latency Euronext UTP data feed to deliver real-time NYSE Euronext market data to clients.

The short-selling ban on 34 UK financial stocks, imposed by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) on 18 September last year, resulted in a “statistically significant deterioration in liquidity” in the 15 FTSE 100 shares affected by the restrictions, according to a study commissioned by the London Stock Exchange (LSE).

The UK’s Financial Services Authority (FSA) has confirmed its plans to lift a ban on the short-selling of UK financial stocks on 16 January – the expiry date originally given when restrictions were imposed on 18 September last year.

Nasdaq OMX Europe, a pan-European multilateral trading facility (MTF), has modified its onward routing fee structure for the third time since its launch last September and has added new trading venues to the service.

Data provider Thomson Reuters has released a beta version of an ultra low-latency direct data feed for NYSE Euronext’s Universal Trading Platform (UTP), the exchange group’s single point of access to its cash and derivatives trading platforms.