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Nyse Euronext and the London Stock Exchange are battling to become the first bourses to begin offering customers trading in US equities during European hours.
14 April 2010
Nasdaq OMX is to launch a new Nordic Fund Market (NFM) to provide an electronic alternative to manage the transactions between fund distributors and fund management companies.
Rob Flatley, the former head of Autobahn equity at Deutsche Bank, has been named CEO and president of securities data management outfit Netik, ousting long-term CEO and co-founder John Wise and incumbent president Colin Close.
13 April 2010
With the OTC derivatives market coming under increasing regulatory scrutiny, firms are looking to technology to help them improve transparency and efficiency, according to research conducted by TowerGroup for vendor SunGard.
A coalition of Hollywood players and politicians have joined forces to oppose two new electronic futures exchange for trading movie box office receipt contracts.
08 April 2010
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has fined Credit Suisse, Getco and Instinet a total of £4.2 million for transaction reporting failures.
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
SunGard is to integrate complex event processing technology from Streambase into its trading applications, fuelling speculation about the potential for a future tie-up between the two firms.
06 April 2010
Finance firms from Nasdaq OMX to Twitter founder Jack Dorsey's Square have moved to tap the Apple iPad hype with the launch of apps for the new hardware.
Massimo Capuano, deputy CEO at the London Stock Exchange and chief of Borsa Italiana, has quit.
01 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.
Australia's government has given in-principle approval for Chi-X to launch a trading platform in the country, finally busting the monopoly long enjoyed by the ASX.
31 March 2010
European clearing house LCH.Clearnet has launched a clearing service for credit default swaps with the support of four leading French dealers.
29 March 2010
Instinet has launched a Web-based platform, called Meet the Street, that lets companies connect directly with institutional investors.
Former Turquoise chief information officer Yann L'Huillier has taken up the same role at Swiss broker Compagnie Financière Tradition.
25 March 2010
FIX Protocol Limited (FPL) has launched an industry standards-based messaging language for algorithmic trading strategies.
Inter-dealer broker Tullett Prebon has teamed with LSE-owned tech house MillenniumIT for the development of its electronic trading systems.
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) says it will give regulators around the world unfettered access to credit default swap (CDS) data - including counterparty information - held at its warehouse.
24 March 2010
Google has posted job ads for traders and analysts at its Mountain View headquarters, raising speculation on the wilder fringes of the Web that the search engine giant may be looking to start its own hedge fund.
23 March 2010
Capital markets tech house First Derivatives has received £1.29 million from Invest Northern Ireland towards a major research and development push.
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