Credit Suisse

224 results about this entity

Period: 01 Nov 2005 - 05 Jul 2024

Data compression firm files patent infringement suits against banks and exchanges

A US firm specialising in data compression has filed lawsuits against a host of investment banks, stock exchanges and financial news and data outfits, accusing them of patent infringement.

Three more banks join CLS/Icap FX joint venture

Bank of America, Credit Suisse and Morgan Stanley have joined four other founder banks in supporting the CLS/Icap joint venture to provide trade aggregation services in the over-the-counter FX market.

First SOA standards released by BIAN industry coalition

The Banking Industry Architecture Network (BIAN) alliance - comprising major technology vendors and banks - has published its first bank IT services standards since it was spun out of SAP over a year ago.

SmartPool signs up members

SmartPool, the European exchange-led dark pool for block trading set up by Nyse Euronext, BNP Paribas, HSBC and JPMorgan says 14 investment firms have now signed up to the platform.

ELX Futures offers free trades during July

ELX Futures, which is set to launch tomorrow, says it will not charge for trades in July as it looks to strike an early blow in the battle to take market share from the dominant CME Group.

Swift switches on central matching for brokers and hedge funds

Banking co-operative Swift has adapted its Accord matching system to handle the pre-settlement processing of securities trade flows between prime and executing brokers and hedge funds.

Credit Suisse to open second Indian back office

Credit Suisse plans to set up a second 'centre of excellence' in India and hire 350 staff by 2010, as it continues to offshore more jobs to cheaper locations.

UBS hires former Credit Suisse exec to oversee major restructuring

UBS has hired former Credit Suisse executive Ulrich Körner to lead a major restructuring drive that will include the consolidation of group-wide IT functions at the bank.

Man Group selects DynamicOps for virtualisation infrastructure management

British hedge fund manager Man Group has selected technology from Credit Suisse spin-off DynamicOps to manage its multi-vendor virtual infrastructure.

Black Thursday for financial markets as job losses mount

Financial markets have been rocked by a further series of massive job reductions at top firms, including Credit Suisse, Nomura, Commerzbank/Dresdner Kleinwort, State Street, and Jefferies.

Orc to cut jobs as it looks for Skr40 million savings

Swedish derivatives trading technology company Orc Software is to cut its workforce in an attempt to reduce annual expenses by around Skr40 million.

Fixnetix bags Credit Suisse hosted trading deal

Credit Suisse is to use technology from Fixnetix to offer hosted low-latency trading support and ultra-fast direct market access to users of its Advanced Execution Services business.