Fixed income platform BrokerTec has signed an extended three year agreement with Swedish trading systems vendor OMX Technology for the licence, support and hosting of its electronic trading platform.
The electronic dealing system is based on OMX's Click XT integrated trading software.
Icap subsidiary BrokerTec originally contracted with OMX for the supply of an electronic, inter-dealer trading system back in 1999. The agreement was renewed and expanded in 2002.
This latest contract includes hosting and support for BrokerTec's network and hardware infrastructure in data centres in the US, UK and Sweden. In addition to the extended agreement, OMX says it has delivered upgrades to the BrokerTec trading system that improves bandwidth efficiency for the market data broadcasting component by 50%.
The electronic trading platform was the subject of a patent lawsuit filed by Cantor Fitzgerald subsidiary eSpeed against BrokerTec in 2003. ESpeed had claimed that the BrokerTec trading system infringed a patent it for its own electronic bond trading technology. As OMX had originally supplied BrokerTec with the software, it too was implicated in the litigation. But last month a federal court jury in Delaware ruled that the patent held by eSpeed was not valid.