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Alpha Trading Systems secures market position with TNS

January 7th, 2009 - Alpha Trading Systems connects to Transaction Network Services

MainFirst Securities Hong Kong goes live with the GL RIMS

December 10th, 2008 - GL TRADE announces MainFirst Hong Kong live on GL RIMS to cover Korean and Taiwanese markets

Weeden & Co and Pragma Financial Systems launch OnePipe+

December 9th, 2008 - Weeden & Co and Pragma Financial Systems announce launch of OnePipe +

StreamBase and Vertica announce customer deployment at BlueCrest

December 9th, 2008 - BlueCrest Capital Management to deploy StreamBase and Vertica technologies

BNY ConvergEx Group announces "Grey" order type

December 3rd, 2008 - BNY ConvergEx Group releases "Grey," its latest TactEx order type

FlexTRADER EMS smart order router provides full connectivity to Alpha ATS L.P.

December 2nd, 2008 - FlexTrade smart order router connected to Alpha Trading Systems in Canada accounts for nearly 20% of executed volume

New NET2S report confirms, one year into MiFID, the best execution battle has truly begun

November 28th, 2008 - Five new Alternative Trading Venues are now competing for best execution

Industry veterans to contribute to QSG's development of system bridge between portfolio and trading strategy

November 21st, 2008 - George Bodine, Dan Ginsparg and Mike Stritch to join QSG

FX Update: Sterling Rises a Touch on Positive Equities

GBP benefited on slight improvement in risk profile following the rebound in Asian equities. However, European indices are struggling to sustain an upturn, with underlying fundamentals still very negative. One development that could capture the sterling market is talk that the UK could make corporate tax changes similar to the US HIA act that would see overseas earnings brought back home without tax implication, which would be a big GBP positive. The FT cites KPMG, which predicts that change. A survey by the group found that 70% of businesses would repatriate cash is the Treasury introduces an exemption for foreign dividends received by British companies. Meanwhile, Cable reclaimed the 1.4800 handle after rallying out of Asian session lows of 1.4718, while EUR/GBP retraced overnight gains to trade back in to 0.8440 from 0.8483 highs.

RTS "Market Trends" Panel, FIA Chicago, November 2008.

Automated Trader Publisher, John Howard chairs the RTS "Market Trends" panel at the FIA Chicago with John Lothian and John "Dr. J" Najarian. John Lothian is publisher of the popular "John Lothian Newsletter" and President of The Price Group. John Najarian is co-founder of Option Monster.