Bats Trading

112 results about this entity

Period: 20 Sep 2006 - 05 Apr 2018

Bats Global Markets names Chris Concannon president

BATS Global Markets (BATS), a leading operator of securities markets in the U.S. and Europe, today named senior industry leader and market expert Chris Concannon as president, effective Dec. 15.

Bats and Direct Edge agree merger

US exchange operators Bats Global Markets and Direct Edge have agreed a merger deal. Financial terms have not been disclosed.

PE firms buy stakes in Bats

Private equity firms Spectrum Equity and TA Associates have both bought minority stakes in Bats Global Markets from Lehman Brothers Holdings. Financial terms have not been disclosed.

Bats exchange hit by outage

Bats Global Markets was forced to shut down its largest US exchange for nearly an hour yesterday because of an internal network issue.

US exchanges push SEC on dark pool curbs

The bosses of three major US exchanges met regulators yesterday to voice their concern about the amount of trading moving away from their public venues to private platforms such as dark pools.

Google joins bidders to build US consolidated audit trail system

Google, Nyse Technolgies and Thomson Reuters are among 31 firms to throw their hats into the ring to build a consolidated audit trail (CAT) system to monitor and analyse US trading activity.

Bats reveals system error has caused long term pricing problem

Bats Global Markets has warned traders that its systems have carried out hundreds of thousands of transactions over the last four years at prices that were not the best available.

Bats Chi-X Europe seeks UK exchange license

Pan-European trading platform Bats Chi-X Europe is in talks with the UK's Financial Services Authority about becoming a registered exchange, according to press reports.

US stock markets shuttered as Hurricane Sandy approaches

American stock exchanges are shutting down today, and provisionally tomorrow, as a precaution ahead of hurricane Sandy's arrival on the east coast.

Bats chief Ratterman stripped of chairmanship

Bats president and chief executive Joe Ratterman has been stripped of the chairmanship in the wake of last week's bungled IPO.

Bats abandoned IPO because of "erosion of investor confidence"; bonuses, HFT called into question

In an open letter to customers, Bats CEO Joe Ratterman cites an "erosion of investor confidence" as the reason for the exchange pulling its plans to go public following a humiliating technical breakdown on the opening day of trading.

Bats pulls IPO following technical meltdown

Bats Global Markets has been forced to rescind its own IPO after a rush of orders overwhelmed price discovery mechanisms, sending its stock to near-zero and tirggering a circuit breaker on trading of Apple shares.