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This community space has been established to keep participants up-to-date with Finexpo conference and exhibition news, and as a forum for discussion of the key challenges facing the capital markets industry

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Finexpo CTS speaker listings now online

Coming to Finexpo? Curious to know what's going on? We've just put the updated speaker session listings live - with speaker photos and session profiles. Finexpo CTS seminar sessions Finexpo day at a glanceFinexpo exhibitors

16 January 2008 /wholesale

Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra

Turquoise recruitment drive

After a stuttering start, it looks like Turquoise is getting its house in order in preparation for a busy New Year. The bank-backed rival to the London Stock Exchange has been variously dubbed Project Tortoise and Project Red Face by City wags for its signal failure to deliver a coherent business plan as the MiFID deadline loomed and its subsequen...

18 December 2007 /wholesale

Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra

Betfair's Flywheel outguns LSE Tradelect

While doing a bit of research into high performance computing for our capital markets conference Finexpo, I stumbled across this article in Business Week on the Betfair gambling exchange. It seems that London-based Betfair has developed a new trading engine dubbed Flywheel, which is capable of handling 100,000 transactions per second and five mill...

04 December 2007 /wholesale

Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra

The Finexpo chronicles

Registration has opened for Finexpo, Finextra’s sixth annual capital markets exhibition and conference, which takes place at The Brewery in London on Wednesday 30 January. Finexpo runs three simultaneous conference streams focussing on front office, back office and technology issues for capital markets participants.The conference programme is sup...

01 November 2007 /wholesale