Gissing Software Newsletter
Volume
2, number 2,
March 2006
News and updates from Gissing Software: Your link with the financial markets
In this issue:
As recently reported in Finextra, Inside Market Data and Securities Industries News among others, Gissing RealtimeXL 2.0 has been built using the real-time data (RTD) technology provided by Microsoft in Office 2002 (XP) and later. Gissing RealtimeXL includes a set of tools that allow you to migrate older spreadsheet applications that use DDE to RTD and immediately take advantage of the new technology and the performance improvements it brings.
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February 6th 2006 saw the publication of the long-awaited formal drafts of the MiFID Level 2 implementing measures. Richard Gissing, our founder and CTO, has taken a long hard look at the four documents, designed to be read in conjunction with the original Level 1 directive.
He now lets us know what he thinks the implications are for Gissing and our clients and prospects. More...
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Already announced to supported clients, Gissing ConteX MCS 3.69 is now available for download. Release 3.69 contains a number of significant enhancements including the handling of over-length page data, improved software installation and other enhancements to ten of our input and output handlers.
In a change to our normal release policy, we will shortly be pre-announcing the major enhancements to be included in the next release of Gissing ConteX MCS - Version 3.70, and its expected availability date. More...
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Gissing Software is the acknowledged market leader in contribution software with Gissing ConteX MCS, but many of our clients aren't aware that we do much more than that. In addition to the new products announced in this newsletter, our product range includes:
- Trade Capture Servers
- FX Trade Capture and STP
- Market Rates Feed handlers
- Market Aggregation gateways
- and, of course, award-winning real-time solutions for Microsoft Excel
So whatever your requirement for the routing and transformation of real-time data, Gissing can help. More...
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Design work has begun on a new Gissing Software product, the Gissing RSS News Server. Many news organisations including BBC News, CNN, Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times are making news available online, and using RSS to publish it. But this normally requires internet access: not available in many dealing rooms.
Gissing's new product will access up-to-the-minute news feeds and provide the results on your market data platform without compromising network security.
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Arrange for someone from Gissing to contact you about the RSS News Server.
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The FAST Protocol (FIX Adapted for STreaming) is quickly gaining support across the financial services industry. The protocol has been specifically designed to compact data being transmitted. This has been shown, in some circumstances, to reduce bandwidth utilisation by up to 90%, allowing organisations to deal with the rapid increase in data transmission without requiring greater communications bandwidth.
Since FAST is likely to be one of the primary protocols used by organisations to achieve MiFID compliance, Gissing believes that there will very shortly be a requirement for contribution systems to support the FAST Protocol and is therefore announcing a number of products supporting this protocol. More...
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