Press Release:
OnixS completes new BrokerTec Genium platform conformance testing
London: Monday 13th February 2012 – On the 13th February 2012 OnixS successfully completed conformance testing on the new upgraded BrokerTec Genium environment. This extensive upgrade of the BrokerTec U.S. and Europe platform is powered by NASDAQ OMX's Genium INET technology, and requires all users to upgrade for the BrokerTec Genium cutover dates of 26th March for the US and 30th April for the EU.
The OnixS directConnect: Brokertec Handler is a C++ library that provides access to the BrokerTec Exchange market data and trading functionality using the OMex interface for automated trading strategies. Ket features include:
➢ Pre-tested, certified and out of the box– thus saving time and money in integration and certification testing.
➢ Supported – service level guarantee that the implementation is production strength, and will support future interface and platform enhancements.
➢ Book management, synchronization and recovery – more than just a market data decoder. Provides full book management with Order book depth – off loads the book management tasks to a specialized implementation.
➢ Low latency, high through-put, multi-threaded architecture – designed for high-frequency and the fastest market data implementation
➢ Easy-to-use and flexible API – designed for rapid integration within trading strategy implementations.
➢ Flexible logging – ability to analyze and diagnose issues and activity quickly
➢ Reference Implementations - included fast-start source code Basic and Advanced reference implementations with market data and trading client samples – designed for familiarization and to get up and running rapidly.
➢ View Only Market Data sessions messages including the Workup Phase, full order book depth, trade broadcast and price information.
➢ Trade Only Multiple Trading sessions round-robin - the BrokerTec trading session is synchronous. This means that the order insertion throughput is limited by the speed of order acknowledgement by the BrokerTec platform. Thus this round-robin feature enables the OnixS Handler to support multiple API_T type trading sessions and the handler manages the most efficient throughout to route orders via available trading sessions.
For those interested in more information on OnixS products and evaluation reference implementations are available via info@onixs.biz
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About OnixS www.onixs.biz :
OnixS is a specialist software business providing high performance multi-platform, multi-venue market data and trading software solutions with a Pay As You Use (PAYU) subscription commercial model.
The OnixS products include the OnixS selfConnect range of FIX engine and FAST encoder/decoder components with venue specific calibrated FIX dialects and reference implementation source code samples designed to be easily integrated within existing .NET, C++ and Java application frameworks.
The OnixS directConnect products are calibrated and certified market data, trading, drop-copy and clearing solutions for a wide range of exchanges, brokers, liquidity pools and routing networks designed for rapid and efficient integration to automated trading strategies.
For more information contact:
OnixS
+44 20 7117 0111
