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Tokyo Stock Exchange and Daiwa Securities Group say they are lending their experience and technological expertise to Myanmar's plans to build a stock exchange.
12 April 2012
McGraw-Hill unit S&P Capital IQ has acquired market data and trading technology vendor Quanthouse. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
03 April 2012
European lawmakers have approved tough new rules governing trading in the over-the-counter derivatives market.
29 March 2012
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEx) is betting US$380 million on a three year technology programme designed to boost the island's standing on the world's financial stage.
28 March 2012
Nyse Euronext is to spend $85 million on developing a new clearing house for its derivatives business in Europe, terminating an existing relationship with LCH.Clearnet.
Singapore Exchange (SGX) is aligning its operations and technology units under one leader as part of a wider organisational reshuffle.
Bats president and chief executive Joe Ratterman has been stripped of the chairmanship in the wake of last week's bungled IPO.
The Tokyo and London stock exchanges are bailing out on their joint venture market for growing companies in Japan, with the TSE agreeing to buy out its former partner.
27 March 2012
A European Parliament report is calling for the Commission to toughen up its crackdown on high-frequency trading under MiFID II.
26 March 2012
Nasdaq OMX has postponed plans to introduce interoperable clearing in the Nordic cash equity markets in April, citing regulatory uncertainties.
In an open letter to customers, Bats CEO Joe Ratterman cites an "erosion of investor confidence" as the reason for the exchange pulling its plans to go public following a humiliating technical breakdown on the opening day of trading.
Bats Global Markets has been forced to rescind its own IPO after a rush of orders overwhelmed price discovery mechanisms, sending its stock to near-zero and tirggering a circuit breaker on trading of Apple shares.
23 March 2012
The broker-dealer unit of Getco has been fined $450,000 for failing to properly supervise its high-frequency trading.
Deutsche Börse is to sue the European Commission over its decision to block a proposed $9 billion merger with Nyse Euronext.
20 March 2012
The London Stock Exchange is to acquire a majority 60% stake in LCH.Clearnet in a deal valuing the clearing house at EUR813 million.
09 March 2012
The Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) has become the latest bourse to signal a crackdown on the huge number of messages high-frequency traders generate.
US exchange operators Nasdaq OMX and Direct Edge have outlined incentive plans designed to encourage high-frequency traders to cut back on the huge number of messages they generate.
08 March 2012
The European Commission is promising to shake up cross-border securities settlement in the EU by cutting settlement timeframes and establishing a common regulatory framework for the region's 30+ central securities depositories.
07 March 2012
A government-sponsored independent review into the performance of UK equity markets has encountered deep scepticism among asset managers of the wisdom of opening national stock markets to competition and scathing criticism of the role played by high frequency traders in distorting market values.
29 February 2012
Blaming a "difficult market environment", Swiss financial services company SIX Group says it will axe 150 jobs as part of a SFr30 million cost-cutting programme.
28 February 2012
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