GTX, the institutional foreign exchange trading arm of GAIN Capital Holdings Inc (NYSE: GCAP), has announced that it will launch a new matching engine for its flagship ECN in Tokyo January 31, 2017. GTX had previously announced plans for the Tokyo matching engine in September, alongside those for a new London matching engine. The London site…
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IPC, a global provider of secure, compliant communications and networking solutions for the financial markets community, has announced that LMAX Exchange, the Multilateral Trading Facility (MTF) for FX and one of the UK's fastest growing technology companies has joined the IPC FX Hub in the Equinix NY4 data centre. The IPC FX Hub supports the…
Read moreGood news for people living anywhere between NY and Chicago! BSO, the Ethernet network, cloud and hosting provider, is expanding into the United States with the introduction of a metro fibre network in New York City’s financial district. The first of the company’s North America expansion announcements, BSO is lighting up Equinix NY4 – Equinix NY9 –…
Read moreEthernet network, cloud and hosting provider BSO has announced plans to add Financial Cloud to its service portfolio to provide a unique and fully-integrated low latency network and cloud offering specifically engineered for the global financial community. The build will include the key FX marketplaces of London, New York and Tokyo with a presence in Equinix LD4,…
Read moreContinuing our exclusive coverage of the events unfolding at forex solutions provider oneZero, LeapRate has learned that the outages hitting oneZero and thereby some of its hosted clients over the past week are the result of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks being made against the company. After engaging multiple security contractors, the company has isolated the attacks…
Read moreThe emails detail nine outages from October 5 through October 13 of lengths varying from 72 minutes to six minutes. The outages continued today...
Read moreLeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that Forex solutions provider oneZero Financial Systems has experienced a number of outages since early last week. The outages have apparently affected a number of oneZero's hosted clients. We have been told that one outage lasted over one hour, and at least three of the outages have been for over half an hour, the…
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