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Exchange operator CME Group is in talks to buy Dow Jones' index business for up to $700 million, according to the Wall Street Journal.
01 February 2010
Irish software firm Cognotec, a supplier of FX dealing systems to the global banking market, has gone into receivership after its business took a nosedive during the economic downturn.
29 January 2010
Deutsche Börse is to cut up to 10% of its 3,300-strong workforce as it bids to lower costs in the face of strong competition, according to a report in German business daily Handelsblatt.
28 January 2010
Over a third of UK-based asset managers and banks are not confident in the quality of reference data they use to support trading activity, according to a survey from IT services firm Patni.
After seeing revenue and profits tumble for much of 2009, Thomson Reuters CEO Tom Glocer says there was a "marked uptick" in sales at the news and data firm towards the end of the year.
27 January 2010
Brazil's BM&FBovespa has hired former Icap executive Cathryn Lyall to head up its new London office, from where the exchange plans to build up a presence in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
General Atlantic has taken a $250 million stake in financial data and post-trade services group Markit.
New York financial analytics firm RiskMetrics Group has put itself up for sale, according to press reports.
US regulatory body Finra has issued guidance to securities firms and brokers on the use of social networking Web sites such as facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn to communicate with the public.
26 January 2010
Citi is to be the first customer for Nyse Technologies' new market data administration service, developed in collaboration with consultancy Jordan & Jordan.
25 January 2010
Swedish vendors Orc Software and Neonet are recommending a merger to their shareholders in a deal that would see them combine equity and derivatives trading technology expertise.
In a bid to woo high-frequency traders in London and Chicago, Thomson Reuters has launched a market data delivery service promising microsecond access to "market moving" machine readable news content.
Exchange execution venue Bats Europe has launched a pan-European smart order routing service for best execution access to multiple market centres including exchanges, MTFs and dark pools.
The London Stock Exchange is reporting a nine per cent slide in third quarter revenue as competition from rival execution venues intensifies.
21 January 2010
The European Union is set to follow in the footsteps of US authorities by instituting a probe into the impact of computer-driven trading on stock market practices, according to a report by Bloomberg.
20 January 2010
Deutsche Börse is to take a write-down of EUR200 million on its 2009 earnings following a poor showing in US equity options trading by the International Securities Exchange.
Chi-X Canada has signed a deal to house its matching engine and colocation customers within Switch and Data's downtown Toronto facility.
19 January 2010
The London Stock Exchange has named former Xtrakter CEO Kevin Milne as director of its post-trade services division.
18 January 2010
The European Central Bank has been forced to set back the deadline for the introduction of a new pan-European securities settlement system by up to a year as negotiations over pricing and governance drag on, according to a report in the Financial Times.
15 January 2010
Publishing group Pearson has confirmed that Interactive Data, in which it holds a majority stake, is reviewing "strategic alternatives" as speculation over a possible sale mounts.
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