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An academic project exploring how supercomputing and data intensive science can be tapped to aid stability, regulation, and enforcement in US markets has received $100,000 in research donations from a collection of financial firms.
28 August 2012
Citigroup has been fined $30,000 by Australian securities regulators for a fat-finger trading error which caused the share price of a stock to plunge by 99%.
Stock exchanges, including Nasdaq, have been forced to cancel trades after erroneous orders in a security sent its price rocketing, according to the Financial Times.
23 August 2012
The Bank for International Settlement has issued fresh guidance on the management of foreign exchange settlement risk, amid concerns that bank back offices are being overwhelmed by massive growth in FX dealing volumes.
21 August 2012
Swiss bank UBS has set up a business area, called Quant HQ, offering quantitative trading clients access to its expertise and technology.
A Web portal for assigning Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) identifiers to firms involved in OTC derivatives trading has gone live.
CME Group, operator of the world's largest futures exchange, has applied to the Financial Services Authority to establish a European derivatives market based in London.
20 August 2012
LCH.Clearnet has reinforced its commitment to the US marketplace by acquiring sole ownership of International Derivatives Clearing Group (IDCG) from Nasdaq OMX and other minority investors.
15 August 2012
Thomson Reuters has filed an application to settle a class action lawsuit over its proposed acquisition of multi-bank foreign exchange portal FXall and extended its $616 million tender offer by three days.
14 August 2012
Australian securities regulators have unveiled tough new controls on automated trading systems in a bid avoid the aberrent market behaviours witnessed in European and US marketplacse.
13 August 2012
Sergey Aleynikov, the former Goldman Sachs programmer who had his conviction for stealing the bank's propriety HFT code overturned earlier this year, has been hit with fresh charges.
10 August 2012
The DTCC's Avox unit has launched a revamped portal offering free access to core data fields and standard industry identifiers for a global set of legal entities.
09 August 2012
Just a day after a similar glitch hit Spain's Bolsas y Mercados Espanoles, trading on the Tokyo Stock Exchange was suspended this morning thanks to a systems failure
07 August 2012
Knight Capital looks set to survive last week's costly trading technology meltdown thanks to a $400 million rescue package put together by a group of investors.
06 August 2012
Knight Capital says that a "technology issue" at its market making unit was behind the volatile price movements in 140 shares yesterday that forced Nyse Euronext to cancel trades.
02 August 2012
Thomson Reuters says its financial and risk business continued to suffer in the second quarter thanks to "growing headwinds" in the FS sector.
01 August 2012
UBS has warned Nasdaq OMX that it could take legal action to recover the CHF349 million ($357 million) it lost thanks to the exchange operator's "gross mishandling" of the Facebook IPO.
31 July 2012
Twitter has been accused of a 'hijacking' by Stocktwits founder Howard Lindzon after rolling out a 'cashtags' feature that enables users to click on stock symbols preceded by a '$' sign to find chatter on the relevant companies.
TS-Associates has acquired the assets of latency management service provider Correlix. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
30 July 2012
Thomson Reuters and GFI Group have formed a joint venture with Chinese outfit SDIC Trust and filed an application to launch a foreign exchange and money brokerage in the country.
23 July 2012
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