112 results about this entity
Period: 20 Sep 2006 - 05 Apr 2018
Company announcement
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.
04 November 2014
News
US exchange operators Bats Global Markets and Direct Edge have agreed a merger deal. Financial terms have not been disclosed.
27 August 2013
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.
14 August 2013
Bats Global Markets was forced to shut down its largest US exchange for nearly an hour yesterday because of an internal network issue.
07 August 2013
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.
10 April 2013
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.
07 March 2013
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.
10 January 2013
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.
08 November 2012
American stock exchanges are shutting down today, and provisionally tomorrow, as a precaution ahead of hurricane Sandy's arrival on the east coast.
29 October 2012
Bats president and chief executive Joe Ratterman has been stripped of the chairmanship in the wake of last week's bungled IPO.
28 March 2012
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.
26 March 2012
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.
23 March 2012
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