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News/Algorithmic trading
Goldman Sachs' plan to spin off its proprietary trading business has run into trouble because the investment bank does not want to give the new entity access to its specially designed computer language, according to CNBC.
06 August 2010
Electronic trading and brokerage giant Instinet has launched a dark liquidity pool for US listed options.
03 August 2010
Over half of capital markets firms do not use real-time market surveillance and monitoring tools despite a general recognition in the industry that greater transparency is needed to deal with abuse and irregular activity, according to a survey from Progress Software.
27 July 2010
Fintech giant SunGard has acquired Fox River Execution, a broker dealer provider of algorithmic trading technology and execution offerings to institutional firms focused on equities ETFs. Financial terms were not disclosed.
23 July 2010
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has proposed new rules that would require exchanges and clearing houses to establish disaster recovery procedures in the event of a market-wide disruption.
15 July 2010
Chi-X Global is set to start offering trading in Japanese stocks later this month after its subsidiary in the country received regulatory approval.
07 July 2010
The circuit breaker mechanism introduced in the wake of last month's flash crash was called in to action yesterday when a reporting error saw shares in Citi plunge 17%.
30 June 2010
A US Senator has called on the Securities and Exchange Commission to review its "revolving door" policy, which sees many senior staffers leave for jobs with firms they once regulated.
17 June 2010
Credit Suisse has introduced a new algorithmic trading platform, Onyx, for fixed income dealing direct with the bank's US Treasuries trading desk.
15 June 2010
Barclays Capital plans to launch a pan-European dark pool for equities trading in the third quarter, building on the US platform it inherited from its acquisition of Lehman Brothers in 2008.
14 June 2010
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is calling for a new rule governing co-location in a bid to level the playing field for traders.
11 June 2010
US broker Knight Capital is set to make a strategic investment in Equiduct, the pan-European equities trading platform majority-owned by Citadel. Terms of the deal, which remains subject to Equiduct shareholder approval, were not disclosed.
08 June 2010
The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) has outlined plans to slash its trading fees and introduce a system aimed at high frequency traders as it prepares to face up to new competitor Chi-X.
04 June 2010
The Singapore Exchange (SGX) has outlined plans to spend $250 million and tap technology from Nasdaq OMX to build what it claims will be the world's fastest trading engine.
03 June 2010
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange has hired Citadel executive Craig Mohan to spearhead a new co-location and data centre push aimed at the high frequency trading market.
26 May 2010
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission is to establish a technology advisory committee after admitting that it struggles to keep pace with technological advances and that it continues to use faxes and manual entry forms for reviewing trading account data.
20 May 2010
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has called for uniform circuit breakers on all S&P 500 stocks in response to the "flash crash" that caused mayhem earlier this month.
19 May 2010
Curbs on high speed trading in US markets appear inevitable as policymakers pore over the sequence of events that led to the dizzying plunge in the Dow Jones Industrial Average last week.
12 May 2010
The SEC has summoned exchange bosses to Washington for talks on how to prevent a repeat of Thursday's plunge in stock prices when the Dow Jones Industrial Average shipped more than 1000 points.
10 May 2010
US regulators are scrambling to deal with the aftermath of a wild day of trading on the Dow Jones Industrial Average which shipped more than 600 points in seven minutes before the close of trading in New York.
07 May 2010
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