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The European Securities and Markets Authority (Esma) has given national securities watchdogs two months to declare their plans for enforcing new rules on scrutinising high frequency trading activities.
24 February 2012
The London Stock Exchange has inked a deal with Google, giving the search engine giant's users access to real-time 'last trade price' data.
21 February 2012
High frequency trading does not pose a significant threat to financial stability in Sweden but does raise the spectre of market abuse, according to the country's regulator.
Tokyo Stock Exchange president Atsushi Saito and several of his top executives have had their pay docked over a systems failure earlier this month that saw trading suspended for several hours.
17 February 2012
Nyse Euronext and CME Group have both submitted bids for the London Metals Exchange (LME), according to Bloomberg.
The Thai Bourse has become the latest victim in a wave of cyber-attacks directed against stock exchange's worldwide.
16 February 2012
Nyse Euronext has agreed to acquire a 25% stake in UK trading technology outfit Fixnetix. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Spanish MTF Plataforma Alternativa de Valores Españoles (Pave) has "temporarily postponed" its launch, blaming the "harsh" financial environment.
15 February 2012
Web sites belonging to Nasdaq OMX, Bats Trading and the Chicago Board Options exchange have all been hit by denial-of-service (D0S) attacks over the last 24 hours. Trading systems were not affected.
Bursa Malaysia saw its Web site knocked out today thanks to a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.
14 February 2012
Deutsche Börse has set out plans to create a new business unit that will be responsible for all data and information technology activities. The division will be led by a new person, with current IT chief Michael Kuhn leaving the company.
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has voted to set up a subcommittee on high frequency trading in a bid to better understand its effects on the market.
10 February 2012
Swiss-German derivatives exchange Eurex is to move to an entirely new trading platform in a phased migration beginning in December 2012.
09 February 2012
Struggling UK exchange operator Plus Markets has put itself in the shop window, commencing a formal sales process to identify potential investors.
03 February 2012
The Tokyo Stock Exchange has blamed a faulty data distribution server for the suspension of trading in the shares of 241 companies this morning at the peak of the Q3 earnings reporting season.
02 February 2012
As expected, European Union anti-trust officials have blocked the proposed mega-merger between Deutsche Börse and Nyse Euronext over fears that the deal would stifle competition in the derivatives markets.
01 February 2012
A consortium of exchanges and technology suppliers have developed a set of common standards designed to restore post-trade transparency in the European equity markets.
24 January 2012
Clearstream has signed a letter of intent with Strate, the South African central securities depository that could see domestic collateral management services outsourced to the Deutsche Bourse unit.
19 January 2012
Israeli hackers have targeted the Web sites of stock exchanges in Saudi Arabia and Abu Dhabi in retaliation for an attack earlier this week on the Tel Aviv bourse.
18 January 2012
International regulatory authorities have called for the urgent creation of a universal Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) in their final report on the OTC derivatives data that should be collected, stored and disseminated by trade repositories (TRs).
17 January 2012
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