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As expected, European Union anti-trust officials have blocked the proposed mega-merger between Deutsche Börse and Nyse Euronext over fears that the deal would stifle competition in the derivatives markets.
01 February 2012
Vista Equity Partners has completed the acquisition of Thomson Reuters' trade and risk management technology business, re-branding the unit Turaz.
Bloomberg has opened up its market data distribution technology, letting developers use its API without any costs or restrictions.
Kweku Adoboli, the UBS trader who is accused of racking up losses of $2.3 billion through unathorised trading activity at the Swiss bank, has pleaded not guilty to charges of fraud and false accounting at a court hearing in London.
30 January 2012
The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged a Latvian man with hacking into online brokerage accounts and manipulating stock prices, reaping more than $850,000 for himself and costing others millions of dollars.
27 January 2012
Microblogging search outfit Topsy Labs is to release a Twitter sentiment analysis tool later this year to investors looking for guidance on stock-price moves after demonstrating impressive market-beating results on Netflix and Apple stock.
25 January 2012
A consortium of exchanges and technology suppliers have developed a set of common standards designed to restore post-trade transparency in the European equity markets.
24 January 2012
A test trade that accidently sneaked into the live market on the EBS trading system was behind a mysterious plunge in the Swiss franc earlier this week, according to a Dow Jones news report.
20 January 2012
Clearstream has signed a letter of intent with Strate, the South African central securities depository that could see domestic collateral management services outsourced to the Deutsche Bourse unit.
19 January 2012
Euclid Opportunities, the vehicle set up by interdealer broker Icap last year to provide seed funding to new fintech companies, has invested in London-based post-trade software firm Model Two Zero.
18 January 2012
International regulatory authorities have called for the urgent creation of a universal Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) in their final report on the OTC derivatives data that should be collected, stored and disseminated by trade repositories (TRs).
17 January 2012
The BIS-backed Financial Stability Board has set up a working group to deliver concrete recommendations on governance issues relating to the management of new Legal Entity Identifiers (LEI) in the global securities markets.
11 January 2012
Anti-trust officials in the EU are prepared to block the proposed mega-merger between Deutsche Börse and the New York Stock Exchange over fears that the deal would stifle competition in the derivatives markets.
Europe's central banks have awarded the two Target2Securities (T2S) connectivity licenses to Swift and a consortium made up of SIA and Colt.
09 January 2012
The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged an investment adviser with trying to sell $500 billion-worth of fictitious securities on LinkedIn and other social networking sites.
05 January 2012
Dion Global Solutions has acquired a controlling stake in Frankfurt-based Swissrisk Financial Systems. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
04 January 2012
Trading technology vendor UNX has launched its own app store, called Catalyst Marketplace, for the financial services industry.
21 December 2011
The Finextra office will be closed after Wednesday 21 December, re-opening Tuesday 3 January.
Markit and Euroclear Bank have inked a memorandum of understanding that will see them build an end-to-end post-trade platform for syndicated loans.
19 December 2011
A Hong Kong man has been fined and given community service for selling unlicensed securities advice through social networking site Facebook.
16 December 2011
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