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Arcontech unveils MiFID-ready components

26/01/2007 Arcontech unveils MiFID-ready components at User Group. Arcontech – a leading developer of real-time market data software – at its user group meeting yesterday (Thursday 25 January) unveiled full information detailing how its CityVision suite can facilitate compliance with MiFID (Market in Financial Instruments Directive). Capabilities explained and demonstrated were: Construction of per-venue market […]

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Arcontech’s Miller predicts surge in Excel usage on the real-time trading desktop

11/12/2006 Andrew Miller, CEO of Arcontech, the supplier of real-time data distribution systems and desktop integration software announced today his prediction of greatly increased revenues from CityVision Excelerator, its flagship product for global real-time data publishing based on Microsoft Excel. The Excelerator suite allows traders, analysts and other users of market data to publish and […]

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New additions to MarketTerminal as London equity markets evolve

13/11/2006 Provider of market information services in the finance sector KTS PLC (AIM: KTS) is adding real-time equity prices, news and other company data from Virt-x and Plus Markets to MarketTerminal, its live market data service. Access to information from the additional exchanges will be available on MarketTerminal from early next year at no additional […]

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Arcontech wins award for producing the most innovative real-time data management software

01/11/2006 Arcontech, a leading developer of real-time market data software, has won an award for the most innovative real-time data management solution. Financial-I magazine, together with leading analyst firms and consultants from the wholesale banking industry, selected Arcontech to receive the award at the Leaders in Innovation Awards on 9 November. The awards were decided […]

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Arcontech unveils new enterprise Status Navigator

01/10/2006 Leading City software specialist upgrades product suite ready for MiFID. Arcontech – a leading developer of real-time market data software – has today unveiled the latest addition to its cutting edge CityVision product: the StarNet Enterprise Status Navigator. CityVision, Arcontech’s suite of software components for real-time data publishing, is well established and proven with […]

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Arcontech makes real time teletext free on web

08/09/2006 Arcontech, a leading supplier of real-time data distribution systems and desktop integration software has announced a free trial of CityVision JStation, giving access to teletext pages over the internet. JStation is a browser-delivered ‘thin client’ desktop for real-time market data display. JStation is vendor independent, one of the many feeds it supports is teletext […]

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Arcontech’s latest Excelerator brings savings and flexibility to real-time

31/07/2006 Arcontech, a leading supplier of real-time data distribution systems and desktop integration software has announced the latest release of its object oriented ‘add-in’ technology for Microsoft Excel, CityVision Excelerator. The Excelerator suite allows traders, analysts and other users of market data to receive, manipulate and re-publish data in true real-time, with sophisticated traffic management […]

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Major Vendor deploys Arcontech as real-time data aggregator

20/06/2006 A major vendor of real-time market data terminal services has gone live with Arcontech’s CityVision StarNet real-time market data aggregator, supporting pan-European data contributions from the investment banking community. The StarNet system went into production earlier this year and is currently receiving real-time data content from about a dozen banks, primarily fixed-income data. The […]

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Three in a row for Arcontech in The Banker Technology Awards

04/06/2006 Following its successes in the 2004 and 2005 awards, Arcontech’s CityVision real-time market data platform has again been selected in the 2006 honours list, this time in fiercely contested ‘Networking Initiative of the Year’ category. In the 2004 awards, CityVision won the award for ‘Best Technology to the Sell-Side’, with its Multiple Vendor Contribution […]

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KTS launches MarketTerminal financial information PDA

15/05/2006 KTS PLC, the provider of real-time financial information services, is launching its new PDA all-in-one mobile market data service package at this weekÕs Dealing with Technology (DWT) event in London. The company will be showcasing the mobile version of its MarketTerminal market data service, aimed at financial market professionals. It is delivered on Hewlett […]

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Arcontech expands on MiFID strategy

10/05/2006 Arcontech, a leading supplier of real-time market data price distribution and order routing technology today has expanded on its pan-European plans to facilitate compliance for financial institutions impacted by MiFID regulation. Andrew Miller, Managing Director of Arcontech said: “Working with the MiFID Joint Working Group, we’ve identified three key areas where our CityVision StarNet […]

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Arcontech’s Development Strategy Fuels Growth

01/03/2006 Driven by a significant market demand for highly efficient, quickly scaleable, very low latency and dynamically configurable data management systems Arcontech’s CityVision product suite is fast gaining a reputation as the system of choice for a range of high profile financial institutions. Arcontech has made major investment in strategic developments to strengthen the CityVision […]

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Arcontech User Group MiFID Focus

08/12/2005 Arcontech, a leading supplier of real-time market data price distribution and order routing technology, focused its regular user group meeting last week on MiFID, the new European Markets in Financial Instruments Directive for price transparency. MiFID requires investment firms to publish firm pre-trade quotes and to be prepared and able to trade on them. […]

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Arcontech outlines MiFID strategy

21/11/2005 Arcontech, a leading supplier of real-time market data price distribution and order routing technology today announced its plans to help City firms address their compliance issues using the highly flexible CityVision market data platform. Speaking in advance of the CityVision user group meeting to be held later this month, Andrew Miller, Managing Director of […]

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Saheed Oyedele promoted to Head of Client Services

17/11/2005 Knowledge Technology Solutions PLC (‘KTS’), provider of professional financial information services, is pleased to announce that Saheed Oyedele, 32, has been promoted to Head of Client Services. Saheed has considerable experience in the market data industry, having worked at the London Stock Exchange and subsequently Thomson Financial during the past 15 years. In his […]

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Arcontech Strengthen Development Team

05/10/2005 Arcontech Ltd., the London-based developer of real-time data distribution and display systems, strengthened its development team earlier this month with the recruitment of Anant Aggarwal. Aggarwal is an experienced developer who has worked around the world for companies such as Honeywell in Phoenix and India and Medcentre in Brazil. Aggarwal is reporting directly to […]

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Arcontech appoints new Business Development Manager

30/09/2005 Arcontech Ltd., the London-based developer of real-time data distribution and display systems, continues its expansion program with the appointment of business development manager, Ken Cordery. Cordery is a senior sales professional with a long and successful track record in new business sales and business development. He will report to Andrew Miller, managing director of […]

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bet365 goes live with CityVision from Arcontech

01/08/2005 bet365, one of the UK’s leading betting and gaming firms, has rolled out Arcontech’s CityVision product to automate its betting price distribution to television based Teletext services, including Sky, Channel 4 and Aertel in Ireland. The system integrates with bet365’s internal price generation system, allowing logical (record based) price data to be published in […]

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Knowledge Technology Solutions adds Interactive Data’s GTIS Forex data to ktsMarketTerminal

11/07/2005 Knowledge Technology Solutions PLC (KTS), provider of professional financial information services, has added extensive foreign exchange data to its standard ktsMarketTerminal subscription. The information is provided by ComStock Europe, part of Interactive Data (NYSE: IDC). Users of ktsMarketTerminal now have access to live prices and exchange rates for more than 170 currencies, allowing them […]

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Arcontech re-launches Excelerator

01/07/2005 Hot on the heels of its recognition at The Banker technology awards ceremony this month, Arcontech is re-launching several of its prize-winning products in a drive to increase market awareness of its leading edge technologies. First in line is the CityVision Excelerator add-in for Microsoft Excel, which enables spreadsheet users to get real-time data […]

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Arcontech wins Banker Technology award

03/06/2005 Following it’s success in the 2004 awards, winning the award for ‘Best Technology to the Sell-Side’, Arcontech’s CityVision StarNet was ‘highly commended’ as ‘Networking Initiative of the Year’ at the third annual The Banker Technology Awards, presented last night in London at the Cafe Royal. Arcontech’s award winning product, StarNet, is a global market […]

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Arcontech announces .net API extensions

01/06/2005 Reinforcing its commitment to enterprise level support in its award-winning CityVision StarNet market data platform, Arcontech has formally released the .net version of the application-programming interface for its global networking solution. The .net API enables clients and third party developers to access the full functionality of CityVision from any of the Microsoft .net programming […]

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Arcontech Launches New Multi-Page Contributor

01/05/2005 Arcontech has added a powerful new product to its CityVision product suite that improves visibility, control and ease of market data page creation and contribution to multiple destinations, including Vendors like Reuters and Bloomberg. The new Page Contributor integrates fully with the CityVision StarNet global real-time infrastructure, supporting end-user entitlements and multiple domains. This […]

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KTS adds AFX Focus News to its ktsMarketTerminal and ktsQuoteTerminal services

07/02/2005 Knowledge Technology Solutions PLC (KTS), provider of professional financial information services, has enhanced the news content of ktsMarketTerminal and ktsQuoteTerminal. Stories from leading European financial news agency AFX News have been added to the standard subscription. ktsMarketTerminal provides real-time prices, news, fundamentals and analytics for 150,000 instruments listed on the major European and North […]

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KTS adds Financial Express Funds Data to ktsQuoteTerminal

20/01/2005 Knowledge Technology Solutions PLC (KTS), provider of professional financial information services, has added Financial Express funds data to its standard ktsQuoteTerminal subscription. It is the first such vendor to offer in-depth Financial Express funds data as part of its market data application service. KTS QuoteTerminal offers real-time UK stockmarket prices and news, as well […]

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Tradition chooses Arcontech

01/01/2005 Tradition, the global inter-dealer broker has chosen London-based real-time software specialist Arcontech to supply a solution to meet its requirement for a comprehensive, distributed market data publishing system. Based on Arcontech’s award-winning CityVision StarNet architecture, the system will support traders in seven sites globally, including London, Lausanne, Paris, New York, Singapore, Tokyo and Hong […]

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City IT workshop confirms support for Market Data Community

01/01/2005 The City IT event on board the Aurora at the end of last year saw further support for the concept of a ‘free to members’ community for real-time market data. A workshop, entitled ‘Whose data is it anyway?’ was presented by Andrew Miller, Managing Director of Arcontech. It discussed the feasibility, benefits and challenges […]

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Arcontech Users & Data Vendors join the Data Community debate

01/11/2004 A presentation given at the Arcontech user group meeting last Thursday sparked some interesting discussion. A high profile user put forward a well argued case showing the three-way benefits of the Arcontech hosted service: lower running costs and more reliable services for the contributor; lower collection, comms and maintenance costs for the Vendor; and […]

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Waymaker benefits the most from continued fall in RNS’s share of the regulatory news market

24/08/2004 In its latest six-monthly survey of the regulatory news market, Knowledge Technology Solutions PLC (KTS) exposes the continued reduction in popularity of the London Stock Exchange’s Regulatory News Service (RNS). Between February and August 2004, 71.05% of the 89,189 regulatory news announcements issued were distributed by RNS compared to 73.78% in the previous six […]

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Arcontech wins Banker Technology awards

02/06/2004 Arcontech’s CityVision StarNet has beaten the competition to win the award for ‘Best Technology to the Sell-Side’ at this year’s second annual The Banker Technology Awards. Arcontech’s winning product, StarNet, is a global market data platform that provides reliable, real-time data publishing and gathering worldwide. It extends CityVision’s proven real-time middleware to wide area […]

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Tullett Financial Offers Customers Internet Access to Data Products

17/05/2004 Tullett Financial, a leading provider of real-time money markets, interest rate derivatives and fixed income price information from the inter-dealer market, today announced that it has launched a service which offers customers direct Internet access to Tullett Financial’s premium data products; SwapMarker, MortgageMarker and TreasuryMarker. The data can be viewed in two ways. The […]

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Arcontech Celebrates 25 Years

16/03/2004 London: Arcontech, the London-based real-time market data applications and middleware specialist is celebrating 25 years of continued business success. Arcontech started developing custom solutions for financial institutions in 1979 and has since become one of the leading experts in real-time processing and messaging. Clients range from major investment banks and National Treasury through to […]

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KTS Survey shows RNS’s share of the regulatory news market continues to fall

24/02/2004 The latest bi-annual PIPs survey by Knowledge Technology Solutions PLC (KTS) reveals that in the last six months, the leading provider of regulatory news distribution – the London Stock Exchange’s Regulatory News Service (RNS) – has continued to lose market share to competitor Primary Information Providers (PIPs). The percentage of regulatory news announcements distributed […]

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Tullett Financial deploys Arcontech’s CityVision StarNet

26/01/2004 Tullett Financial Information, a major provider of money markets, interest rate derivatives and fixed income data from the inter-dealer market, has selected Arcontech, the London-based real-time market data applications and middleware specialist to provide a global distribution system to bolster their direct offerings of market data to customers. Initially, StarNet will be implemented in […]

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Arcontech and Cicada form Strategic Alliance

17/12/2003 Arcontech, a leading provider of end-user market data technology and real-time middleware has announced a strategic marketing and technology alliance formed with Cicada, a global provider of data validation and cleansing services. The agreement means that the companies will work together to tender for major business where their products are complementary and their combined […]

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Arcontech enhances Excel real time add-ins

26/11/2003 Automatic updating of real-time and other data into Microsoft Excel spreadsheets has been simplified with the release of an updated software bundle from Arcontech, the London based developer of real-time data distribution and display systems. The new combined product, Excelerator 2, allows users to take real-time data from multiple sources into a single spreadsheet […]

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RNS’s competitors begin to make inroads into regulatory news market, according to latest KTS survey

22/08/2003 The latest PIPs survey by Knowledge Technology Solutions PLC reveals that the leading provider of regulatory news distribution Ð the London Stock Exchange’s Regulatory News Service (RNS) – lost 6.52% of its market share to rival primary information providers (PIPs) over the last six months. Since the market was opened to competition in April […]

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Radianz joins with Arcontech for market data initiative

04/08/2003 Real-time market data specialist Arcontech is to offer its products and services over the Radianz network as part of a combined market data package that will allow institutions to create shared networks of data that bypass information vendors such as Reuters, Bloomberg and MoneyLine Telerate. Under this new initiative Arcontech’s CityVision StarNet software will […]

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City Index Quadruples Business with Arcontech

07/07/2003 Implementation of an on-line service has allowed leading financial spread-betting specialist City Index to quadruple its business over the past year. Developed by London based financial systems specialist Arcontech for City Index, who’s parent company is the world’s largest derivates broker ICAP, the web service allows clients to speculate on a full range of […]

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Arcontech unveils suite of real-time components for web & database developers

16/06/2003 London-based real-time software specialist Arcontech has announced Intercom, a new range of component products for integrating real-time market data with web and database projects. Aimed specifically at third-party developers, integrators and the in-house development staff of market data end-user organisations, the components are currently used within Arcontech’s CityVision real-time market data systems. CityVision has […]

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