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Fidessa is reporting trading transaction throughput tests on the new Intel Xeon 5500 chipset running twice as fast as on current industry standard kit, with comparatively lower power consumption.
01 April 2009
The London Stock Exchange is to debut its new post-trade routing technology X-TRM as it launches a Central Counterparty (CCP) service for trading in the 50 most liquid Depositary Receipts (DRs) on the LSE's International Order Book (IOB).
31 March 2009
Thomson Reuters has inked a multi-million dollar investment management outsourcing support deal with Canada's Manulife Financial Corporation (MFC).
30 March 2009
Multilateral trading facility Nasdaq OMX Europe is inviting market participants to take a stake in the business in an effort to boost share trading volumes.
Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking (SG CIB) has launched Alpha x Europe, a crossing network which matches clients' buy and sell orders on a particular stock through an anonymous execution platform.
Burgundy, a new MTF owned by Scandinavian banks and brokers that will offer trading in Nordic securities from later this year, has chosen BT to provide connectivity services.
24 March 2009
Connecticut-based fintech vendor SS&C Technologies has acquired Evare, a managed service provider for financial data acquisition, transformation and delivery. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
23 March 2009
Dealing volumes over the Turquoise multilateral trading facility slumped by more than half last week as liquidity agreements with market-makers expired.
Scandinavian bank Nordea has gone live in Sweden with the first phase of a pan-Nordic roll-out of securities processing and settlement technology from Calypso.
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange has delayed the launch of its clearing counterparty for credit default swaps as it seeks to attract investment and liquidity promises from the dealer community.
20 March 2009
Interdealer broker Icap is to abandon plans to launch its own derivatives exchange following a business review which has led to the departure of chief operating officer for exchange projects Cathryn Lyall.
19 March 2009
Chi-X has appointed Ulf Axman as head of European development at Chi-Tech, the technology services arm of the exchange operator formed from its recent acquisition of Cicada.
18 March 2009
UBS Wealth Management Americas has inked a multi-year deal with Thomson Reuters for the provision of news services to its financial advisor desktops.
17 March 2009
Sybase has launched a complex event processing (CEP) technology platform for performing analytics on high speed streaming data.
16 March 2009
SmartPool, the European exchange-led dark pool for block trading set up by Nyse Euronext, BNP Paribas, HSBC and JPMorgan, has appointed Lee Hodgkinson as its new chief executive officer
The London Stock Exchange has pulled out of a consortium of banks led by inter-dealer broker Icap that is considering a takeover bid for LCH.Clearnet. The independent clearer says it has had extensive talks with the consortium but that it is still awaiting an offer.
13 March 2009
Swiss-German derivatives exchange Eurex says it is in advanced talks to sell stakes in its forthcoming credit default swaps clearing house.
12 March 2009
Nomura has strengthened its grip on the Chi-X Global business with a top tier reshuffle that sees Tony Mackay moved upstairs to the chairmanship and former Lehman exec John Lowrey appointed as chief executive.
A new electronic futures exchange being set up by a group of banks and trading firms to take on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange plans to start live trading in June after a month of systems testing.
11 March 2009
US-based StreamBase Systems is looking to cash in on the recently announced merger between complex event processing vendors Aleri and Coral8 by inducing customers to migrate to its platform through a series of 'Migration Best Practices Workshops'.
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