Gissing Software Newsletter
Volume 2, number 4, September/October 2006
News and updates from Gissing Software: Your link with the financial markets
In this issue:
The one thing that our clients consistently tell us is important about their choice of real-time Excel add-in is its performance. Normally they mean just out and out speed: how quickly does it present subscribed data and how quickly does it contribute data. We're delighted to announce that the new version of Gissing RealtimeXL is our fastest ever! In tests against its most widely used competitor it is more than twice as fast at both subscription and contribution. More...
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As we reported in the May 2006 newsletter, Gissing announced a range of products to assist our clients address the requirements of MiFID, all of which use the FAST Protocol (FIX Adapted for Streaming). We are pleased to announce that the first of this range of products, Gissing FASTtunnel, is now available. More...
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Early in the summer our founder and CTO Richard Gissing took part in an industry focus group discussion organised by Financial News. The subject was "Securities trading after 2010: markets after MiFID". Ben Wright, editor of business publishing at Financial News, moderated the session and Financial News published a dedicated supplement containing an edited transcript of the discussion. Click on the link below to see who the other participants were, to find out more and to request your own copy of the supplement. More...
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Following the June release of Gissing ConteX MCS 3.70, we have included a number of customer-requested enhancements and a new status output handler. These are all included in version 3.71.1 which is immediately available to existing clients. Follow the link for a summary of the main feature enhancements and a copy of the release notes. More...
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The level 2 MiFID documents made it clear that the best execution requirements applied to all financial instruments, not just equities. However it's not clear how this can be achieved in a financial instrument (such as bonds) where there is little or no transparency. To address this the EU has launched a call for evidence on the implementation of transparency in bond and other non-equity markets. In this article we review both the call for evidence and the industry response. More...
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