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Bank of America, Bear Stearns, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan and Knight Capital have each invested in the Block Interest Discovery Service (Bids), an alternative platform for equity block stock trading.
01 March 2007
New York-based Investment Technology Group (ITG) has hired Michael Green from Goldman Sachs to head its IT operations in Europe.
28 February 2007
The Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) group has signed a $20 million contract to replace core trading engine hardware with Integrity NonStop servers from HP.
20 February 2007
Mexican broker dealer Casa de Bolsa Finamex (Finamex) is implementing algorithmic dealing technology from Massachusetts-based Progress Software to deliver customised program trading strategies to buy-side customers.
The US Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has appointed Michael Bodson to the newly created position of executive managing director for business management and strategy.
16 February 2007
The global foreign exchange market is rapidly moving towards an exchange traded business model as e-trading accelerates and the traditional segregation of the interdealer and dealer-to-client markets is breached, according to research conducted by analyst house Celent.
13 February 2007
UK dealing room systems house royalblue is to change its name to Fidessa in an effort to capitalise on the penetration of its core trading system and build a global brand. The company, which reported strong profits for 2006, is also looking for a large acquisition to expand its business with the buy-side and cater for new financial instruments.
12 February 2007
Aqua, the new electronic equities trading platform that will be launched later this year by eSpeed, has appointed Andrew Fishkind as global head of sales.
30 January 2007
US institutional trading network Liquidnet has signed a definitive agreement to acquire New York-based Miletus Trading, an agency-only brokerage firm that provides quantitative execution strategies and analytics to institutional investors. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
22 January 2007
Mexican broker dealer Casa de Bolsa Finamex (Finamex) has implemented the TradingScreen electronic dealing platform to provide its buy-side customers with direct access to the Mexican Stock Exchange.
11 January 2007
Nordic IT services vendor TietoEnator has acquired Abaris, a Swedish provider of securities trading, fund management and private banking technology. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
04 January 2007
Bank of America is forecasting dramatic growth in automated equity options trading in the year ahead.
20 December 2006
Italian banking technology vendor SIA is to launch a software tool for verifying and assessing 'best execution' requirements in securities transactions, in line with forthcoming compliance requirements under the Markets in Financial Instruements Directive (MiFID).
Brussels-based depository Euroclear has signed an agreement to acquire the UK's EMXCo, a provider of electronic messaging technology that automates the dealing and settlement of mutual funds. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
11 December 2006
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