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Market Rehearsal Results for Line Reconnection/Failover Capability

Updated: 25 July 2008

MDF Direct Connection Vendors

According to Technical Requirements for Direct Connection Market Datafeed ("MDF")  Vendors, direct connection MDF vendors must be able to detect line failure automatically and reconnect with HKEx' MDF System within 1 minute.  The requirement is also included in the MDF Certification Test for new direct connection MDF vendors and will be tested twice a year in the market rehearsals arranged by the Exchange. 

The first market rehearsal for 2008 was held on Saturday 19 April 2008.  Further sessions of re-test for vendors who had failed in the market rehearsal were held on Saturday 3 May, 21 June and 19 July.  The results of these tests were as follows:

A: Direct connection MDF vendors who participated in the above tests and met the above stated requirement:  

  •          2GoTrade Ltd
  •          AAStocks.com Ltd
  •          ACTIV Financial Systems, Inc.
  •          AFE Solutions Ltd
  •          Bartech (Int'l) Information Network Ltd
  •          Bloomberg Finance L. P.
  •          BNP Paribas Securities (Asia) Ltd
  •          Citigroup Global Market Asia Ltd
  •          ET Net Ltd
  •          Fidessa plc
  •          Finet Holdings Limited
  •          Hong Kong CSL Ltd
  •          The Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation Ltd
  •          Hutchison Telecommunications (HK) Ltd.
  •          i-CABLE Network Operations Ltd
  •          Infocast Ltd
  •          Intelligent Group Enterprise Ltd
  •          Interactive Brokers LLC
  •          Interactive Data Real-Time Services, Inc.
  •          Investment Technology Group, Inc.
  •          Jade Network Ltd
  •          PCCW-HKT Network Services Ltd
  •          Polaris Securities (HK) Ltd
  •          Quam (H.K.) Ltd
  •          Quick Corp.
  •          QuotePower International Ltd
  •          Realink Paging Ltd
  •          Reuters Ltd
  •          SG Securities (HK) Ltd
  •          Sino Information Services Co Ltd
  •          Star Finanical Limited
  •          Telecom Digital Data Ltd
  •          Telekurs Financial Information Ltd
  •          Telequote Data International Ltd
  •          Tele-Trend Ltd
  •          Tenfore Systems Ltd
  •          Thomson Financial Ltd
  •          UBS AG, Hong Kong Branch
  •          United World Securities Japan K.K.

    Total 39 vendors

  • B:

    MDF vendors who participated in the above tests but did not meet the above stated requirement:

    Nil

    C:

    MDF vendors who did not participate in the above tests:

    Nil

    D: New MDF vendors who have met the above stated requirement in the MDF Certification Test and were admitted after the market rehearsal:

  •        Market Valley Inc.
  •        Merrill Lynch (Asia Pacific) Limited

    Total 2 vendors