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Tony Freeman, executive director of industry relations at Omgeo examines how the industry is preparing for the upcoming T+2 regulation.
23 July 2012
News/Dealing rooms
US tech firm Wolters Kluwer is extending its interest in the financial risk and reporting arena with the acquisition of Belgium's FinArch.
16 July 2012
The European Commission is consulting on fresh attempts from Thomson Reuters to shrug off a three-year antitrust probe into the licensing of Reuters Instrument Codes (RICs).
12 July 2012
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has voted to force US exchanges and Finra to build a consolidated audit trail system to monitor and analyse trading activity.
As disaster recovery plans go, it's certainly novel: The Bank of England allegedly contemplated buying up to half-a-dozen bicycles so that its officials could navigate around a riot-gripped City in the event of a full-scale financial meltdown.
11 July 2012
Former Goldman Sachs trader and reality TV star Anton Kreil is planning an out-of-this-world PR stunt that will see him complete the first trade in space.
10 July 2012
Thomson Reuters has moved to bring compliance out of the back office and onto the trading floor with a new version of its Eikon desktop that includes regulatory information.
The UK's House of Lords has urged the European Commission to call a halt to proposed changes to the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II), labelling the reforms as "ill-thought out" and potentially damaging to the City of London.
The Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has outlined a multi-year programme for the complete elimination of paper securities certificates from US financial markets.
09 July 2012
Thomson Reuters has agreed to acquire multi-bank electronic foreign exchange platform FX Alliance (FXall) for around $625 million in cash.
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has given Nyse Euronext the green light to pilot a programme designed to attract retail investors from dark pools.
06 July 2012
Project First, the European Union-backed research effort to find a way of extracting and analysing financial services-related sentiment from social media networks, has launched its first running prototype.
05 July 2012
The Council of the European Union has adopted a regulation requiring financial firms to clear over-the-counter derivatives contracts through a central clearing counterparty and report them to trade repositories.
04 July 2012
Swiss reference data outfit AIM Software has acquired neighbouring rival ABI Informatic, continuing the trend for consolidation in the financial data management industry.
Thomson Reuters is to make its proprietary Reuters Instrument Codes available beyond its desktops and feeds for use across the trade processing lifecycle by both customers and non-customers.
27 June 2012
Bloomberg has launched a global portal providing interactive, continuously updated industry research and data from a team of more than 100 professionals.
26 June 2012
Dr Leonid Timochouk, Global Head, Algorithmic Rates Trading, Quantitative Analytics at RBS, Global Banking and Markets describes how the bank's project to real-measure the calibration of stochastic volatility in finance.
Thomson Reuters is adding "psychological analysis" to its machine-readable news service, interpreting the emotion and sentiment of stories and social media posts to help investors develop trading strategies.
25 June 2012
Kerr Hatrick of Deutsche Bank uses visualisation tools to examine the affect of automated and high frequency trading on markets.
Borsa Italiana is to shut down trading on the TradEelect platform for the final time after markets close Friday, in preparation for a big bang migration to the London Stock Exchange's MillenniumIT trading system.
21 June 2012
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