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After months of wrangling, The Chicago Mercantile Exchange has finally secured agreement with eight leading dealers to participate in its credit default swaps counterparty clearing initiative.
04 December 2009
Massachusetts-based enterprise technology provider Progress Software is set to cut its global workforce by between 12% and 14% in a bid to cut costs.
03 December 2009
StockTwits, a social microblogging site which picks up tweets from traders, has closed a $3 million series b financing round led by Foundry Group and existing investors True Ventures and Brad Feld.
02 December 2009
SIX Swiss Exchange is to move its Swiss Block dark pool service for Swiss blue chips to SmartPool, following the closure of the Nyfix Euro Millennium platform earlier this week by new owners Nyse Technologies.
The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) has settled a long-running legal dispute with members of the Chicago Board of Trade (Cbot), paving the way for demutualisation within "days or weeks".
01 December 2009
Poland's treasury has called off the sale of a majority stake in the Warsaw Stock Exchange to Deutsche Börse and is instead planning an initial public offering.
Reflecting the growing influence of computer-driven trading strategies, Thomson Reuters has expanded its machine-readable news offering to include real-time analysis of company events.
Investor behavior is largely determined by nature rather than nurture according to a new study of identical twins conducted by finance professors at Claremont McKenna College and the University of Washington.
In a widely-tipped move, Chi-X Europe has confirmed that Alasdair Haynes will take over as chief executive officer of the pan-European MTF, subject to regulatory approval.
Nyse Technologies has shut down the Euro Millennium dark pool following completion of its $144 million take-over of Nyfix.
30 November 2009
Thomson Reuters has acquired Asset4, a Swiss provider of environmental, social responsibility and governance (ESG) data. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Deutsche Börse has agreed to buy a 75% stake in Tradegate, a Berlin-based MTF catering to the retail market that is set to become a regulated exchange early next year.
Bank-owned payments network Swift has launched a purpose-built microsite for investment managers in a bid to get more traction with buy-side institutions.
27 November 2009
Thomson Reuters is inviting students on facebook to participate in a virtual trading game with a chance to win £1000.
The London Stock Exchange is once again grappling with technical problems on a day when its shares have taken a hammering on fears that Borse Dubai may be forced to dump its 20% stake in the UK market.
26 November 2009
Cambridge researchers say that a smart combination of testosterone, experience and profit-sharing incentives - rather than big-money bonus payouts - produces traders who are capable of consistently outperforming the market.
Interactive Data has agreed to buy the assets of Online Financial Solutions (OFS) from Dow Jones.
24 November 2009
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has fined Nomura International £1.75 million for "widespread systems and controls failings" around book marking within its International Equity Derivatives (IED) business.
A US man dubbed the "godfather of spam" has been jailed for over four years for his role in an e-mail stock fraud scam that netted around $2.7 million.
Broker Terra Nova Financial has been fined $400,000 by Finra for making more than $1 million in improper soft dollar payments to, or on behalf of, five hedge fund managers. The broker was also charged with failing to retain its business-related electronic instant messages.
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