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Bloomberg today takes the wraps off a two-year development effort designed to simplify its desktop data service and pile the pressure on dealing terminal rival Thomson Reuters.
27 February 2012
The European Securities and Markets Authority (Esma) has given national securities watchdogs two months to declare their plans for enforcing new rules on scrutinising high frequency trading activities.
24 February 2012
UK start-up Vidivici has launched a beta version of its community-powered investment search engine, which pools the views of users, examines them and then taps the data to offer tailored trading advice.
UK asset manager Threadneedle called in police last year after its internal systems blocked a suspicious trade worth $150 million.
22 February 2012
High frequency trading does not pose a significant threat to financial stability in Sweden but does raise the spectre of market abuse, according to the country's regulator.
21 February 2012
In a publicity stunt for Danish online investment bank Saxo, a base jumper has carried out an FX trade using a mobile phone at terminal velocity.
20 February 2012
Former Goldman Sachs programmer Sergey Aleynikov has had his conviction for stealing the bank's propriety high-frequency trading code overturned by a federal appeals court.
17 February 2012
Swedish fintech vendor Orc Group has filed to delist from Nasdaq OMX Stockholm after a public tender offer from Nordic Capital was accepted by stockholders controlling over 98% of its shares.
Nyse Euronext has agreed to acquire a 25% stake in UK trading technology outfit Fixnetix. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
16 February 2012
Spanish MTF Plataforma Alternativa de Valores Españoles (Pave) has "temporarily postponed" its launch, blaming the "harsh" financial environment.
15 February 2012
Deutsche Börse has set out plans to create a new business unit that will be responsible for all data and information technology activities. The division will be led by a new person, with current IT chief Michael Kuhn leaving the company.
14 February 2012
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has voted to set up a subcommittee on high frequency trading in a bid to better understand its effects on the market.
10 February 2012
Thomson Reuters has swung to a fourth quarter operating loss thanks to a $3 billion goodwill impairment charge related to its struggling financial services business.
09 February 2012
Swiss-German derivatives exchange Eurex is to move to an entirely new trading platform in a phased migration beginning in December 2012.
The chaos of MF Global's final days, as it scrambled to meet funding needs, saw computer systems and staff struggling to keep up with the sheer volume of transactions, according to a report from the trustee overseeing the brokerage's liquidation.
08 February 2012
Goldman Sachs is preparing to spin off its Redi Technologies unit, inviting other banks and brokers to take a stake in the business, according to Dow Jones.
07 February 2012
Struggling UK exchange operator Plus Markets has put itself in the shop window, commencing a formal sales process to identify potential investors.
03 February 2012
UK and Swiss regulators have launched formal proceedings against UBS over the £2.3 billion unauthorised trading loss made at the bank last year.
A Piigs exit from the single currency would bring a 40% drop in euro yield curve and 20% fall in euro equities, according to modelling from SunGard's APT risk system.
The Tokyo Stock Exchange has blamed a faulty data distribution server for the suspension of trading in the shares of 241 companies this morning at the peak of the Q3 earnings reporting season.
02 February 2012
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