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London Stock Exchange: What really went wrong

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 4, 2011

“The London Stock Exchange has made a U-turn on the system
requirements placed on data vendors such as Thomson Reuters,
Interactive Data and Bloomberg, after three weeks of problems since
the launch of its new trading platform.

“The decision, to fundamentally change the timing and systems
around closing share price data recording, was made following a
heated meeting with the providers that addressed significant
disparities in quoted share prices.

“The move has been widely welcomed by vendors, which provide
share price data from the LSE to traders, and compete on speed and
quality. A number of them had expressed real opposition to the
changes that the LSE pushed through as it moved to a new platform.
The exchange declined to comment on the issue.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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