Nasdaq OMX Group Inc won a contract to administer billing and other chores for the data feed system that sparked a three-hour trading halt in Nasdaq-listed stocks last year, but a contract to build and manage the system is still undecided, the firm that oversaw bidding said on Tuesday. Representatives from the U.S. stock exchanges and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, a self-funded watchdog for Wall Street, picked Nasdaq over two other firms that submitted bids, said Jordan & Jordan in a news release. Nasdaq has always managed the securities information processor, or SIP, which consolidates quotes and last sale prices from all the exchanges into a single feed, but it expressed concerns after last year's glitch. The SIP became clogged with quotes in August 2013, a breakdown that led Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Mary Jo White to order the exchanges to buttress the SIP and other "single points of failure" in the U.S. marketplace. Voting to pick a SIP administrator,
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