700 articles tagged with this keyword
News/Algorithmic trading
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
Nyse Euronext has opened its European liquidity data centre and begun moving in customers it says will benefit from ultra-low latency co-location services.
05 May 2010
The Futures Industry Association (FIA) has set out recommendations devised to help manage the risk related to direct market access to exchange networks.
30 April 2010
The London Stock Exchange's decision to change its tariff structure in a bid to win back high-frequency traders just months after scrapping an earlier scheme has been ridiculed by rival outfit Bats Europe.
22 April 2010
A former Societe Generale trader has been arrested by US authorities and charged with stealing propriety computer code used in the bank's high-frequency trading (HFT) system.
20 April 2010
Thomson Reuters has unveiled a global high-speed data distribution network and hosting environment designed to enable financial firms around the world to access and share information.
The US Securities and Exchange Commission is considering the electronic tagging of trades conducted by automated trading shops in an effort to keep tabs on the activities of high-frequency traders.
07 April 2010
Chip giant Intel has begun hawking its new Xeon processor 5600 and 7500 series' to the financial services community, boasting of benefits in risk management, latency and data and order throughput.
01 April 2010
FIX Protocol Limited (FPL) has launched an industry standards-based messaging language for algorithmic trading strategies.
25 March 2010
Data integration outfit Informatica has acquired low latency messaging firm 29West. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
22 March 2010
Chi-X Europe has rolled out Thomson Reuters' pan-European low latency direct feed, pricing and reference data service, offered through the firm's hosting centres in London.
The post-MiFID fragmentation of exchange trading and data has substantially increased the potential for market abuses, according to a new advisory group set up to look at the issue.
16 March 2010
Goldman Sachs is to offer clients streamlined '1Click' access to its suite of algorithmic trading programs in a global effort to improve ease of use and create consistency across its e-trading portfolio.
15 March 2010
Hirander Misra, former chief operating officer of Chi-X Europe has resurfaced as CEO and founding director of new firm Algo Technologies.
Swiss bank UBS is planning to launch a dark pool multilateral trading facility (MTF) for crossing orders in European stocks.
09 March 2010
In a bid to attract high-frequency traders, Bloomberg has expanded its machine-readable news output to offer trending analytics on the hottest content passing over its terminals.
19 February 2010
UBS has lost its bid to get a permanent injunction against three former quant traders accused of stealing proprietary algorithmic trading software with the intent of using it at their new employer, Jefferies.
15 February 2010
Former Goldman Sachs computer programmer Sergey Aleynikov has been indicted on charges related to the theft of propriety code connected to the investment bank's high-frequency trading platform.
12 February 2010
High speed trading firm Getco is set to go back to the future by taking up a position on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange as a designated market maker (DMM).
Welcome to Finextra. We use cookies to help us to deliver our services. You may change your preferences at our Cookie Centre.
Please read our Privacy Policy.