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Hong Kong police have arrested a man in connection with a cyber-attack earlier this month on the Island's stock exchange.
24 August 2011
Global regulators have set out plans for reducing the "data gaps" in OTC derivatives trading that are hitting efforts to assess systemic risk in the market.
Nyse Euronext's proposed merger with Deutsche Börse has moved a step nearer after the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) waved through the deal.
23 August 2011
Chi-X Europe has become the continent's first trading platform to offer its customers the choice of four different clearing providers.
17 August 2011
The Hong Kong Stock Exchange was forced to suspend trading in some shares - including HSBC - after hackers attacked its Web site.
10 August 2011
The mega-merger between Nyse Euronext and Deutsche Börse faces an extended investigation by the European Commission amid concerns over the impact of a tie-up on competition in clearing and derivatives trading.
05 August 2011
Canadian exchange operator TMX Group has acquired connectivity specialist Atrium Network. Financial terms were not disclosed.
03 August 2011
The London Stock Exchange has agreed a £15 million cash deal to buy the Financial Services Authority's Transaction Reporting Service (TRS).
02 August 2011
Nyse Euronext has agreed a buy Metabit, a Tokyo-based provider of market access products throughout Asia. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Bats Europe has launched a 'preferred interoperable' clearing service, enabling traders to choose between three CCPs.
29 July 2011
The Securities and Exchange Commission is pressing ahead with the creation of a system to collect transaction data from large traders such as banks and hedge funds that will help it to investigate wild stock market swings like last year's May 6 flash crash.
27 July 2011
Devin Wenig, the CEO of Thomson Reuters' global markets division is to leave the company in a surprise shake-up of the business intended to improve sales to financial sector clients.
22 July 2011
Hirander Misra, has quit with immediate effect as chief executive officer of Algo Technologies, the fintech vendor he helped set up only a year ago.
19 July 2011
Europe's central banks have begun the process of picking network service providers for the Target2Securities (T2S) system, with telecoms firms expected to challenge inter-bank co-operative Swift for the two licenses up for grabs.
15 July 2011
Swedish competition authorities have raided the offices of Nasdaq OMX as part of a probe into whether the firm is working with data centre operator Verizon to stymie rivals, according to the Financial Times.
14 July 2011
The Dodd-Frank Act will lead to around 60% of current US over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives market by volume being cleared centrally, according to Citi.
13 July 2011
With the imminent arrival of Chi-X on the Australian scene, ASX has tapped UK vendor Fidessa to help it prepare, developing a co-located smart order routing trading application for the new multi-market environment.
Industry group XBRL US has launched a Facebook competition, offering $20,000 to the person or group that comes up with the best open source analytical application for investors that uses the format.
12 July 2011
Financial messaging network Swift and the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC) have won two separate industry data management mandates, for the development of a Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) utility and electronic foreign exchange repository.
UK trading technology outfit Fixnetix is mulling a partial or full sale to help expand its reach around the world, according to the Financial Times.
11 July 2011
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