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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
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
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