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News/Algorithmic trading
Europe's exchanges have voiced their concerns that broker crossing networks are not being subjected to the same level of scrutiny as traditional bourses in the current debate on regulating automated trading.
13 October 2011
American banking giant Citi has contracted UK vendor Fidessa for the provision of a workflow and trading platform for its global listed derivatives business.
11 October 2011
The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged money manager AXA Rosenberg's co-founder with securities fraud for concealing a computer code error in a quantitative investment model he developed, costing clients millions of dollars.
22 September 2011
More than two thirds of institutional traders around the world are concerned about the impact of high-frequency trading (HFT) on the equities market, according to a survey from Liquidnet.
12 September 2011
The number of human traders employed in the financial markets is set to fall dramatically over the next ten years as banks and brokers become increasingly reliant on computer-based algorithms to run their trading operations. This is one of the early conclusion of the UK Government's Foresight panel, which was assembled to study the implications of high frequency trading on the economy.
08 September 2011
Bloomberg is to begin offering traders social media analytics as a real-time sentiment indicator for stocks heavily influenced by consumer opinion.
31 August 2011
After a week of extreme market volatility, former City minister Lord Myners has called on the UK government to investigate high-frequency trading.
15 August 2011
The Securities and Exchange Commission is pressing ahead with the creation of a system to collect transaction data from large traders such as banks and hedge funds that will help it to investigate wild stock market swings like last year's May 6 flash crash.
27 July 2011
With the imminent arrival of Chi-X on the Australian scene, ASX has tapped UK vendor Fidessa to help it prepare, developing a co-located smart order routing trading application for the new multi-market environment.
13 July 2011
UK trading technology outfit Fixnetix is mulling a partial or full sale to help expand its reach around the world, according to the Financial Times.
11 July 2011
Securities markets should consider the introduction of speed limits on high frequency trading to prevent the risk of market abnormalities disrupting prices, a top Bank of England official says.
08 July 2011
Securities regulators are to explore the feasibility of an overhaul of financial market reporting, audit and surveillance mechanisms in an effort to keep pace with the increasing volumes of data generated by technology-powered trading
07 July 2011
Finextra TV/Algorithmic trading
SunGard's David Morgan discusses the impact technology is having on trading and the implications for brokers large and small.
05 July 2011
A group of proprietary trading firms have set up a European lobby group as they prepare for greater regulatory scrutiny of high-frequency trading.
08 June 2011
Brazilian exchange operator BM&FBovespa is to implement complex event processing technology from Streambase to build a dynamic fleet of real-time, low-latency data applications.
07 June 2011
Electronic trading and brokerage giant Instinet has launched a liquidity pool for Australian equities.
01 June 2011
Thomson Reuters is to integrate complex event processing (CEP) technology from StreamBase with its Elektron data distribution network.
18 May 2011
Nasdaq OMX is working with vendor Xignite to expand its Data-On-Demand cloud service for historical stock trade and quote data.
26 April 2011
Chi-X Global is in advanced talks with four trading firms and banks to take a minority stake in the alternative share trading platform operator reports the FT, citing "three people familiar with the matter".
20 April 2011
Nigel Harold, head of technology business development at the London Stock Exchange talks with Finextra about enhancements to their data centre, which includes proximity hosting supplied by Colt at this year's TradeTech conference in London.
17 April 2011
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