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The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange's (Tase's) Web site has been offline this morning, apparently down for "maintenance" hours after a Saudi hacker warned it would be the next target in an escalating cyber-war.
16 January 2012
SIX Swiss Exchange has been forced to delay the start of trading by three hours because of a "technical problem".
13 January 2012
The BIS-backed Financial Stability Board has set up a working group to deliver concrete recommendations on governance issues relating to the management of new Legal Entity Identifiers (LEI) in the global securities markets.
11 January 2012
Anti-trust officials in the EU are prepared to block the proposed mega-merger between Deutsche Börse and the New York Stock Exchange over fears that the deal would stifle competition in the derivatives markets.
Bats Chi-X Europe has become the first trading platform operator to offer its customers the choice of four different clearing providers.
09 January 2012
The Finextra office will be closed after Wednesday 21 December, re-opening Tuesday 3 January.
21 December 2011
Deutsche Börse and Nyse Euronext have offered the European Commission more concessions in a bid to allay antitrust concerns and secure approval for their $9 billion merger deal.
13 December 2011
The London Stock Exchange (LSE) has agreed a £450 million cash deal to buy the 50% stake in FTSE International it does not already own from publisher Pearson.
12 December 2011
SIX Securities Services is to push for clearing interoperability in Asia after doubling its market share of clearing London Stock Exchange trades following the introduction of similar measures in Europe.
08 December 2011
Swedish technology supplier Cinnober has released a subscription-based hosted service for banks and brokerages looking to create an Organised Trading Facility in line with new European marketplace regulations.
Bats Europe has suffered a trading breakdown just days after finalising a deal to acquire rival platform Chi-X Europe.
06 December 2011
US exchange operator Nyse Euronext is to shutter its SecFinex securities lending platform in the face of a dismal economic climate.
01 December 2011
Canadian exchange operator TMX Group has agreed a deal to buy Australia's Razor Risk Technologies for around C$10.18 million in cash.
30 November 2011
The European Central Bank is to offer 'early bird' incentives to central securities depositories that sign up to the Target 2 Securities (T2S) platform, as the controversial project to streamline the Euro area's securities settlements systems reaches a critical make-or-break stage in its development.
29 November 2011
CME Group has fined high-frequency trading firm Infinium Capital Management a total of $850,000 for three separate computer malfunctions.
28 November 2011
The Tokyo and Osaka stock exchanges have agreed to merge in 2013 as they seek to strengthen their positions in a global market in the midst of a wave of consolidation.
22 November 2011
US electronic exchange operator Direct Edge has outlined plans to set up a Brazilian bourse based in Rio de Janeiro.
21 November 2011
FBI investigators probing last year's cyber-attack on Nasdaq OMX have found out-of-date software, misconfigured firewalls and uninstalled security patches on the exchange operator's PCs, according to Reuters.
18 November 2011
Deutsche Börse and Nyse Euronext are proposing to divest their overlapping equity options business across Europe and open up third party access to Eurex Clearing in an effort to win EU approval for their $9 billion merger deal.
Nicola 'Superwoman' Horlick and Brian Winterflood will lead a high-powered panel of City executives debating the future of European securities markets at Finextra's final Post-Trade Forum event of the year, which takes place at the London Stock Exchange later this month.
11 November 2011
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