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Caplin unveils HTML5 Web trading offering

Caplin Systems has launched what it claims is the world's first production-ready Web trading tool built entirely on the HTML5 standard, enabling it to work across all mobile devices.

14 November 2012

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LSE's Millennium scores Hong Kong bourse deal

The LSE has racked up another couple of successes for its Millennium technology business, winning a contract with the Hong Kong Exchange and completing a rollout at Oslo Børs.

14 November 2012

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Start-up pitches social media analysis tool to traders

A new London-based analytics firm that trawls sites such as Twitter and Facebook for information that can be used to help investors, has launched.

13 November 2012

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Bloomberg, king of the proprietary desktop, launches App Portal

Bloomberg has launched an App Portal that gives its 315,000 desktop terminal subscribers access to applications created by third party developers.

13 November 2012

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Off-exchange trading hitting market quality - US buy-side

Most US institutional equity management traders think that off-exchange activity is now hitting market quality but opinions vary over what should be done about it and by whom, according to research from Tabb Group.

13 November 2012

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Nyse blames server upgrade for stock trading suspension

The New York Stock Exchange suspended trading in 216 companies Monday as a server upgrade hit order delivery in the effected stocks.

13 November 2012

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No link between HFT and market manipulation - research

There is no link between high-frequency trading (HFT) and market manipulation, according to research from Australia's Capital Markets Cooperative Research Centre (CMCRC).

13 November 2012

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Man jailed for Hong Kong exchange cyber-attack stunt

A Hong Kong man who carried out a cyber-attack on the island's stock exchange in a publicity stunt designed to promote his company's anti-DDoS services has been jailed.

12 November 2012

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CFTC charges former Goldman trader over $118m loss

A former Goldman Sachs trader has been charged by US regulators with bypassing internal systems to conceal an $8.3 billion position from the bank and defraud it of $118 million.

09 November 2012

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Bats Chi-X Europe seeks UK exchange license

Pan-European trading platform Bats Chi-X Europe is in talks with the UK's Financial Services Authority about becoming a registered exchange, according to press reports.

08 November 2012

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MarketAxess to acquire Xtrakter

Fixed income exchange MarketAxess has agreed to acquire European post-trade services group Xtrakter from Euroclear for £26 million in cash.

02 November 2012

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Sandy-hit Wall Street faces questions over contingency plans

As trading resumed in New York after a two-day Hurricane Sandy-inflicted pause, the effectiveness of Wall Street's back-up plans to deal with disasters was being called into question.

01 November 2012

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Half of market participants not preparing for T+2 - Omgeo

Market participants are not prepared for shorter settlement cycles, despite being strongly in favour of a move to T+2, according to a study from Omgeo.

31 October 2012

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Sandy wreaks havoc on Manhattan

US stock markets are to remain closed on Tuesday for the second day in succession, in the aftermath of a huge storm surge that flooded downtown Manhattan and plunged millions of New Yorkers into darkness.

30 October 2012

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US stock markets shuttered as Hurricane Sandy approaches

American stock exchanges are shutting down today, and provisionally tomorrow, as a precaution ahead of hurricane Sandy's arrival on the east coast.

29 October 2012

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Swift wins T2S connectivity deal with CSD consortium

Link Up Markets, a consortium of 11 European central securities depositories (CSDs), has selected financial messaging network Swift to provide connectivity to Target2-Securities, the new pan-European settlement infrastucture under construction by the European Central Bank.

24 October 2012

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London Metal Exchange signs for new surveillance software

The London Metal Exchange has signed a deal with the London Stock Exchange's tech subsidiary Millennium IT to install new surveillance software for real-time detection of abnormal trading patterns.

22 October 2012

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Quote MTF plans Spanish trading venue

European equity trading venue Quote MTF and London-based investment bank Capital Partners have outlined plans to enter the Spanish market.

18 October 2012

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Flash crash reforms will fail to make markets safer - study

The new circuit breaker system designed to avoid a repeat of 2010's flash crash will fail to avert another market meltdown unless it is coupled with 'liquidity safety valves', warns a new piece of academic research.

18 October 2012

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Oslo Bors acquires Swedish neighbour Burgundy

Oslo Børs is to take over the operations of rival Swedish exchange Burgundy as it bids to raise its market share in the Nordics and challenge Nasdaq OMX for regional dominance.

16 October 2012