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Plus Markets chairman Giles Vardy has stepped down following a shareholder-led revolt to forcibly oust him from the role
10 November 2011
The Delhi Stock Exchange (DSE) has signed for equity, derivatives, FX trading and clearing technology from the LSE's MillenniumIT unit.
Brazilian exchange operator BM&FBovespa has licensed technology from Swedish vendor Cinnober for a major revamp of its clearing operations.
09 November 2011
The London Metal Exchange has appointed former EuroCCP COO Trevor Spanner managing director of post-trade services.
08 November 2011
Hackers have knocked out a French rugby club fansite, mistaking it for Deutsche Börse's Dax portal.
07 November 2011
McGraw-Hill and CME Group have agreed a deal to pool their S&P and Dow Jones index businesses in a new joint venture.
04 November 2011
The Malta Stock Exchange is set to roll out Deutsche Börse's electronic trading system, Xetra.
03 November 2011
The board of TMX Group has finally recommended that shareholders accept a C$3.8 billion takeover offer from a consortium of Canadian banks and pension funds.
31 October 2011
Just days before the launch of a rival platform, the Australian Securities Exchange has been forced to halt trading for four hours by a "connectivity issue".
27 October 2011
Paul Tucker, deputy governor of the Bank of England, says effective resolution regimes need to be put in place to help deal with the "mayhem" that would result if a central counterparty went bust.
25 October 2011
Pipeline Trading Systems will pay $1 million to settle SEC charges that it failed to tell users of its dark pool that the vast majority of orders were filed by an affiliated operation.
Plus Markets is facing a shareholder revolt calling for the dismissal of chairman Giles Vardy and the re-instatement of founder Simon Brickles to the board of the embattled company.
24 October 2011
Wedbush Securities is suing two former employees and dark pool operator Liquidnet for allegedly stealing trade secrets related to a new private shares trading business.
21 October 2011
The European Commission has vowed to get tough on insider dealing and market manipulation, proposing EU-wide rules on minimum criminal sanctions.
20 October 2011
Financial markets in Europe are set to undergo a fundamental overhaul, as the European Commission rolls out new rules and regulations covering every aspect of the trade lifecycle, from pre-and post-trade transparency, through to execution and clearing and settlement.
Global securities regulators have called for stronger oversight of high frequency and algorithmic trading activity to 'mitigate the risks' posed by high-speed trading on market integrity and efficiency.
A group of five financial institutions, including Goldman Sachs and BofA Merrill Lynch, have acquired minority stakes in Chi-X Global, which operates trading platforms in Canada and Japan.
18 October 2011
Pan-European equity trading venue Quote MTF has severed all ties with Peter Beck, controversial CEO of the former day trading firm Swift Trade, which has run foul of global regulators for alleged market abuse.
17 October 2011
US electronic exchange operator Direct Edge has been sanctioned by the SEC for "weak internal controls" that led to trading losses of millions of dollars and a systems outage.
14 October 2011
Europe's exchanges have voiced their concerns that broker crossing networks are not being subjected to the same level of scrutiny as traditional bourses in the current debate on regulating automated trading.
13 October 2011
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