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News/Dealing rooms
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
Finextra TV/Dealing rooms
Jeff Saul, CEO of Euroinvestor, talks about the launch of Cockpit, which allows retail investors to share their trading screen activity on social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin.
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
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.
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.
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