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Nyse Euronext is to spend $85 million on developing a new clearing house for its derivatives business in Europe, terminating an existing relationship with LCH.Clearnet.
28 March 2012
Bats president and chief executive Joe Ratterman has been stripped of the chairmanship in the wake of last week's bungled IPO.
A European Parliament report is calling for the Commission to toughen up its crackdown on high-frequency trading under MiFID II.
26 March 2012
Nasdaq OMX has postponed plans to introduce interoperable clearing in the Nordic cash equity markets in April, citing regulatory uncertainties.
In an open letter to customers, Bats CEO Joe Ratterman cites an "erosion of investor confidence" as the reason for the exchange pulling its plans to go public following a humiliating technical breakdown on the opening day of trading.
The broker-dealer unit of Getco has been fined $450,000 for failing to properly supervise its high-frequency trading.
23 March 2012
Researchers have outperformed the Dow Jones Industrial Average with a trading model built on data culled from Twitter.
Orc Group, the Swedish trading systems firm recently acquired by private equity house Nordic capital, is to part company with its CEO and demerge previously acquired businesses Neonet and CameronTec.
22 March 2012
Deutsche Börse is to sue the European Commission over its decision to block a proposed $9 billion merger with Nyse Euronext.
20 March 2012
The Currency Cloud, a UK-based start-up offering foreign exchange payments automation, has raised $4 million in a series a funding round led by Atlas Venture.
14 March 2012
Interdealer broker Icap has restructured its electronic trading operations to separate the reporting lines for the FX and fixed income businesses in a move that has led to the departure of division chief David Rutter.
13 March 2012
Financial industry association Isitc says that nearly two thirds of its members plan to increase their information technology spending over the next two years as regulatory compliance continues to dominate the agenda.
12 March 2012
The London Stock Exchange is to acquire a majority 60% stake in LCH.Clearnet in a deal valuing the clearing house at EUR813 million.
09 March 2012
The Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) has become the latest bourse to signal a crackdown on the huge number of messages high-frequency traders generate.
Thomson Reuters has failed to appease EU antitrust bodies over proposed concessions in the way it licenses the proprietary Reuters Instrument Codes.
08 March 2012
US exchange operators Nasdaq OMX and Direct Edge have outlined incentive plans designed to encourage high-frequency traders to cut back on the huge number of messages they generate.
The European Commission is promising to shake up cross-border securities settlement in the EU by cutting settlement timeframes and establishing a common regulatory framework for the region's 30+ central securities depositories.
07 March 2012
Thomson Reuters is adding information and sentiment analysis from social media sites and blogs to its machine-readable news service.
Thomson Reuters has agreed to sell off Portia, its middle-to-back office investment operations platform, to SS&C Technologies for $170 million.
29 February 2012
A government-sponsored independent review into the performance of UK equity markets has encountered deep scepticism among asset managers of the wisdom of opening national stock markets to competition and scathing criticism of the role played by high frequency traders in distorting market values.
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