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Financial messaging network Swift and the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC) have won two separate industry data management mandates, for the development of a Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) utility and electronic foreign exchange repository.
12 July 2011
Interdealer broker Icap has appointed Deutsche Bank veteran Mark Price as group chief operating officer.
11 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.
Thomson Reuters has set a mid-2012 deadline to get its trading platforms ready for forthcoming OTC derivatives regulations, as it releases research which shows clear bank unease at the uncertain impact of the new rules on front and back office operations.
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
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is to push ahead with a tranche of new rules governing market manipulation and large trader reporting under the Dodd-Frank financial reform act.
The FBI has arrested a senior software engineer with the Chicago Mercantile Exchange on charges that he stole and handed over proprietary software code to a Chinese futures exchange start-up.
07 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
Deutsche Börse has acquired a minority stake in Digital Vega, a small London based company which provides electronic FX options trading technology to buy and sell-side firms.
06 July 2011
The European Parliament has postponed implementation of new rules designed to improve transparency in over-the-counter trading, mirroring a similar slowdown in US financial market reforms under the Dodd-Frank Act.
A former Citigroup executive has been charged with stealing $19 million from the bank in a swindle described by the FBI as the 'ultimate inside job'.
28 June 2011
The world's leading foreign exchange dealers and trading platforms are collaborating on an industry-wide initiative to reduce the risk of an algorithmic-led 'flash crash' hitting the global currency markets.
27 June 2011
Representatives from the ISO, Goldman Sachs, Google and Swift are among the members of a new technology advisory sub-committee on data standardisation set up by the CFTC.
24 June 2011
London-based clearinghouse LCH.Clearnet looks set to take advantage of recent regulatory changes and move into the Australian market, taking on ASX Clear.
21 June 2011
US institutional investors have cut back on electronic trading and pushed more deals through high-touch broker sales desks over the past year, according to research from Greenwich Associates.
Computer glitches have hit trading in Nyse Euronext's European markets for the second successive morning.
The UK's Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has referred Bats Global Market's planned acquisition of rival MTF Chi-X Europe to the Competition Commission.
20 June 2011
Nyse Euronext has postponed plans to terminate its clearing contract with LCH.Clearnet, leaving the door open to a longer-term agreement as consolidation trends grip the industry.
16 June 2011
Sungard has won the tender to supply an electronic trading link between Bursa Malaysia, the Philippine Stock Exchange, Singapore Exchange and the Stock Exchange of Thailand.
14 June 2011
The Maple Group of Canadian pension funds and banks have formally presented their $3.7 billion hostile bid for TMX to the exchange's shareholders.
13 June 2011
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