Gold bricks and ETFs, brokers working for sick children, transaction taxes, erroneous trades, dark pools, equity in vogue, governance reforms, five-character symbols on NYSE, OTC clearing vs. trading, business journalism more than a century ago, new IPOs, bringing back the dividend table -- whew, I think that's it -- oh wait... and Snoop Dogg at NYSE!
From Marisa Ricciardi: NYSE Euronext kicked off Global Entrepreneurship Week with the second annual “Mentoring Madness” event on Monday, Nov. 16.
From Feargal O'Sullivan, Managing Director, High Performance Messaging at NYSE Technologies: :
I’m here in Portland, Oregon, for Super Computing ’09. We’re back in action with our partners Voltaire and Intel, this time showing an enhanced version of the NYSE Technologies Data Fabric 10GigE RDMA demo we built for the Intel Developer’s Forum in September. You can read more about it in our press release or read on for a summary.
As more and more exchanges are offering direct market access, brokers around the world are looking for solutions to provide pre-trade risk controls. NYSE Technologies has created the Risk Management Gateway (RMG) Suite to meet these demands and provide a flexible deployed system.
From Steven Poser in Strategic Analysis and Statistics:
NYSE Arca’s proprietary market order algorithm, attractive rebates for posting liquidity, in combination with market order interaction with two special order types, differentiates NYSE Arca from other markets.
From Combie Cryan, Head of Business Development, Global Data Products, NYSE Technologies:
To mark the launch of its SuperFeed service in Europe, NYSE Technologies has published a white paper on how its clients can look to address these headaches and how SuperFeed may play a key role in reducing cost and complexity while maintaining performance and flexibility. The paper includes a useful tick list of criteria in making data acquisition decision and case study of a client who has recently slashed its market data spend using SuperFeed.
From Todd Wilemon::
With two months left in 2009, it is amazing what has taken place. Under the leadership of Ed Boyle, Senior Vice President of US Options, and with the support of the entire organization we have been setting goals and ruthlessly executing our plan to become the places to trade options both electronically and via open outcry.
