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IG Markets, the leading Contract for Difference (CFD) provider, has announced that its Smart Order Routing technology will now be extended to incorporate liquidity from BATS Europe, the operator of an innovative and technology-leading European Multilateral Trading Facility (MTF).
We were the first company of our kind to start working with the MTFs last November, and [...]

StreamBase Systems, a leading provider of Complex Event Processing (CEP) technology, today announced a new partnership with Gain Capital, a global provider of online foreign exchange services, to offer a complete solution for their mutual clients to quickly deploy FX high-frequency trading algorithms.
The deal combines StreamBase’s award-winning CEP platform and with direct adapter to GAIN [...]

He will be appointed as Chief Executive Officer of CLS Group and President and CEO of CLS Bank International, effective 30 June 2010 on the retirement of Rob Close after nine years with CLS. This executive change is part of the group’s planned succession strategy.
In announcing the appointment of Alan as Rob’s planned successor, Gerard [...]

Ok, so as everyone knows, Forex Factory have just announced that their new Market Data section has gone live.
So, what do I think of it?
On first impressions, it’s actualy rather impressive. Firstly because, it’s something unique in the forex market, and secondly because I can definitely see this being used more and more by traders. [...]

It seems that lately there are plenty of firms entering the forex bridge solutions market. Days when Boston Technologies solely controlled the Metatrader 4 market are either going to be soon to be over or things are going to become a bit more tough on the Boston firm. I hear of at least 3-4 more [...]

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — (February 22, 2010) Integral Development Corporation (www.integral.com) today announced FX Inside Alpha™, an on demand solution powerful enough to launch algorithmic trading firms from scratch, or provide existing ones with the key building blocks that they require to get to the next level. An integrated development environment (IDE) included in the [...]

This morning I got an email from Babypips.com:
“mt4pips.com makes it easy for forex traders to publicly share and analyze their MetaTrader 4 account results. After a quick setup, your MT4 trades are automatically published online, in real-time. No technical knowledge is needed at all. And you get your very own custom “mt4pips.com/username” URL. Cool! [...]

In what was probably a done deal much before the news about Cognotec going into a receivership were even announced First Derivatives has completed the acquisition of the troubled company.
Ireland based First Derivatives has paid just $4.7 million for Cognotec , a fraction of $100 million in investments which Cognotec received in the past 20 years. Talking [...]

As many of you are aware, InterbankFX over the past few years have released certain trading tools/softwares available exclusively to their clients. One of these softwares is a tool called the Pattern Recognition Software. Now they’ve recently upgraded this software.
So, what exactly does their PRS do? Well, basically it will alert you of any pending [...]

It hasn’t taken other capital markets technology firms too long to realize Cognotec is a hell of a bargain. Latest news has it that First Derivatives, a Newry Ireland based global provider of solutions for Capital Markets, is looking to acquire the troubled foreign exchange company.
In fact, Irish Times reports that First Derivatives already entered [...]