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Britain's competition watchdog has ruled that IntercontinentalExchange should sell Trayport to preserve competition in wholesale energy trading markets.
17 October 2016
Distributed ledger technology may be the "most significant development in many years" for payments, clearing and settlement, according to a Federal Reserve governor who says that the central bank will publish its own blockchain paper later this year.
12 October 2016
A blockchain-based startup for trading in growth companies founded by former Nasdaq Tallin stock exchange head Kaidi Ruusalepp has raised $2.6 million in a funding round led by Draper Associates, Thomson Reuters, and IQ Capital.
Thomson Reuters is to build a new technology centre in downtown Toronto, creating 400 IT jobs.
07 October 2016
Robot traders are being blamed for a currency rout which saw the pound plunge by six percent in just two minutes in early Asian trading Friday.
IBM is to acquire risk management and regulatory compliance consulting firm Promontory Capital and create a new subsidiary, Watson Financial Services, in which it will use artificial intelligence technology to keep pace with the rapidly changing financial reporting landscape.
29 September 2016
The European Commission has opened an in-depth anti-trust investigation into the proposed EUR24 billion merger between Deutsche Bourse and the London Stock Exchange.
28 September 2016
The Securities and Exchange Commission has fined Merrill Lynch $12.5 million for ineffective trading controls which led to a series of "mini-flash crashes".
26 September 2016
Working under the R3 banner, a gang of eight banks have successfully tested a distributed ledger prototype for bond transactions using Intel technology.
The Chicago Board Options Exchange has agreed a blockbuster deal to acquire Bats Global Markets for $3.2 billion using a mixture of cash and stocks.
The Australian Securities Exchange (AS) has blamed an "unprecedented" hardware failure for problems on Monday that forced the bourse to open late and close early.
23 September 2016
Shares in Bats Global Markets have soared on the back of speculation that it may be acquired by the venerable Chicago Board Options Exchange.
Thomson Reuters has agreed to buy trading technology firm Redi Holdings in a bid to boost its buy-side offering. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
22 September 2016
Latest Finextra paper finds blockchain has grown up during 2016, and explores industry’s efforts to exploit its potential in a shorter timeframe.
20 September 2016
The Australian Stock Exchange was forced to close early on Monday following a day of problems caused by a hardware failure in a database used by the bourse's equities trading system.
19 September 2016
Online investment platform AJ Bell Youinvest is tapping Amazon Echo to provide spoken portfolio valuations and market quotes to customers via the voice-activated device.
15 September 2016
US exchanges, clearing houses, trade repositories and dealing platforms will have to test their systems for cyber-vulnerabilities at least once a quarter under new rules approved by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
09 September 2016
Thomson Reuters is partnering with Ethereum, Imperial College of London, UCL, and tech partners Oraclize, Crypto Compare and Ethcore to host a weekend-long blockchain hackathon in Canary Wharf, London.
08 September 2016
The rapidly expanding R3 distributed ledger consortium has added its first exchange, in the shape of Brazilian giant BM&FBovespa.
06 September 2016
The World Federation of Exchanges is calling for the creation of regulatory sandboxes for distributed ledger technology, to help industry efforts to explore and understand the impact of blockchain-based services in the capital markets.
05 September 2016
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