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The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) has outlined plans to slash its trading fees and introduce a system aimed at high frequency traders as it prepares to face up to new competitor Chi-X.
04 June 2010
The Singapore Exchange (SGX) has outlined plans to spend $250 million and tap technology from Nasdaq OMX to build what it claims will be the world's fastest trading engine.
03 June 2010
The influential EU Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee has called for an outright ban on speculative trading in certain derivatives contracts and the imposition of higher capital requirements for firms handling contracts that are not cleared centrally.
Starbucks has opened a coffee booth on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (Nyse) to serve caffeine-deprived traders during lulls in trading.
Tora is expanding its Crosspoint dark pool across Asia following its launch in Japan earlier this year.
02 June 2010
Spain's Bolsa Y Mercados Españoles (BME) has set back the launch of a planned OTC trade repository by six months until the end of the year. The project's cross-border aspirations have received a boost, however, with Clearstream banking announcing its support for the venture.
01 June 2010
Bank-backed inter-dealer broker Dealerweb plans to take on Icap and BGC partners with the launch of electronic trading of US Treasury bills, according to a report in BusinessWeek.
28 May 2010
The Securities and Exchange Commission has voted to approve a proposal requiring national securities exchange to establish a consolidated audit trail of all stocks traded in US markets from order through to execution.
27 May 2010
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange has hired Citadel executive Craig Mohan to spearhead a new co-location and data centre push aimed at the high frequency trading market.
26 May 2010
Chi-X Europe has appointed John Woodman as chairman, replacing long-standing incumbent and founding CEO Tony Mackay (pictured), who moves to take up a non-executive position of chairman emeritus at the global equities exchange
25 May 2010
Six leading investment banks are to report cash equity trade volumes crossed in their internal dark pools via a post-trade market data service provided by Markit.
24 May 2010
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission is to establish a technology advisory committee after admitting that it struggles to keep pace with technological advances and that it continues to use faxes and manual entry forms for reviewing trading account data.
20 May 2010
Thailand's stock exchange and several banks were set on fire today by anti-government protesters as violence in the capital escalated despite the surrender of red shirt leaders.
19 May 2010
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has called for uniform circuit breakers on all S&P 500 stocks in response to the "flash crash" that caused mayhem earlier this month.
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has released for public comment a first set of drafts of corporate action announcement messages under the international ISO 200022 format.
18 May 2010
Standard & Poor's has cut the credit rating of Nyse Euronext and warned that LCH.Clearnet may face a similar fate following the exchange's decision to sever ties with the clearing house.
14 May 2010
Curbs on high speed trading in US markets appear inevitable as policymakers pore over the sequence of events that led to the dizzying plunge in the Dow Jones Industrial Average last week.
12 May 2010
Nyse Euronext says it plans to start clearing its own securities and derivative trades in Europe from 2012, severing ties with LCH.Clearnet.
The SEC has summoned exchange bosses to Washington for talks on how to prevent a repeat of Thursday's plunge in stock prices when the Dow Jones Industrial Average shipped more than 1000 points.
10 May 2010
US regulators are scrambling to deal with the aftermath of a wild day of trading on the Dow Jones Industrial Average which shipped more than 600 points in seven minutes before the close of trading in New York.
07 May 2010
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