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A pair of Norwegian day traders who cracked the algorithms of US broker Timber Hill have been cleared of wrongdoing by the Supreme Court, according to local press reports.
02 May 2012
OpenMama, the middleware agnostic messaging API that went open source last year, has made available a new version and added IBM, Tick42 and TS-Associate to its steering committee.
01 May 2012
European clearing house LCH.Clearnet has confirmed that it is in discussions to acquire International Derivatives Clearing Group (IDCG) from Nasdaq OMX as it bids to grow its interest rate swaps business in the US.
24 April 2012
Finance Watch, a European association lobbying under the banner 'making finance serve society', has called on the EU to crack down on high-frequency trading.
US fintech vendor Trading Technologies International (TT) is reducing its workforce by around a sixth, laying off 100 employees.
23 April 2012
The US Securities and Exchange Commission has charged twin brothers from England with using a fake "stock picking robot" to defraud around 75,000 investors out of $1.2 million.
Dutch high-frequency trading firm Optiver will pay $14 million to settle US regulatory charges accusing it of manipulating crude oil prices.
20 April 2012
Quote MTF has outlined plans for a European 'liquidity-on-demand' trading venue, giving participants control over how, and with whom, they trade.
19 April 2012
Almost seven out of 10 North American capital markets executives believe a significant portion of their firms' resources will be consumed by regulatory burdens and data latency issues, according to a Sybase survey.
18 April 2012
European fund managers and market data user groups have launched a complaint with the Swiss competition authorities over alleged "illegal" Isin licensing practices by Standard & Poor's in Switzerland.
The US Securities and Exchange Commission has charged online brokerage optionsXpress, four of its employees and one customer in connection with a naked short selling scheme.
17 April 2012
Estimize, a US start-up that pools members' forecasts for earnings results at listed companies, has launched a competition offering cash prizes to its most accurate pickers.
16 April 2012
International banking and securities regulators have set out new and more demanding standards for operators of payments, clearing and settlement systems as part of an international effort to boost the resiliency of the financial markets.
Crédit Agricole Cheuvreux has launched its own pan-European dark pool that will not be open to proprietary and high-frequency traders.
A US Appeals Court says that it overturned the conviction of former Goldman Sachs programmer Sergey Aleynikov for stealing the bank's propriety HFT code because such code is "intangible property" and so not covered by the laws he was charged under.
12 April 2012
McGraw-Hill unit S&P Capital IQ has acquired market data and trading technology vendor Quanthouse. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
03 April 2012
Electronic foreign exchange platform FXall has hired former Nyse Euronext chief information officer Steve Rubinow to head up its technology operations.
With foreign exchange evolving into a mainly electronic marketplace, the industry is poised to see massive growth in the use of algorithmic trading strategies, according to research house Greenwich Associates.
European lawmakers have approved tough new rules governing trading in the over-the-counter derivatives market.
29 March 2012
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEx) is betting US$380 million on a three year technology programme designed to boost the island's standing on the world's financial stage.
28 March 2012
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