In Asia Pacific this week XSP launched its ASP corporate actions solution, Patsystems introduced its own new fully-managed ASP offering XConnect, and launched three new ASP hubs across the region. Meanwhile SMX informed us of a Euro-US Dollar Futures contract for the Asian trading timezone.

Expansion into Russia and Eastern Europe continued as Investment Technology Group announced the availability of its entire range of European algorithms across Hungary and Poland, CQG and Broco partnered to expand trading connectivity in Russia and Eastern Europe, and NASDAQ OMX was selected to provide market data audit services for the Moscow based MICEX Group.

Exchange news as ISE introduced Do Not Route Orders for increased control over order execution, NYSE Technologies launched an Order Routing Direct connectivity service.

In other industry news Atrium Network extended foreign exchange connectivity to both Hotspot FX and FXCM., Sapient Global Markets partnered with Numerix for integrated pricing and analytics, SWIFT is to acquire Ambit Messaging Hub Assets from SunGard and Barclays Capital announced the launch of a new web-based real-time equities trading analytics application, Portfolio WebBench® Live.

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