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Coinbase adds support for FIX protocol as Wall Street boards bandwagon

Bitcoin exchange operator Coinbase has added support for the FIX protocol for order management by professional traders.

12 March 2015

JPMorgan investment bank speaks the language of innovation in hunt for fresh talent

The Corporate and Investment Banking arm of JPMorgan Chase is on the hunt for new product developers who "care about disruption" and have "an opinion on bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies".

27 February 2015

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FCA to probe investment and corporate banking competition

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is to launch its first wholesale market study into investment and corporate banking to assess whether competition in the sector is working properly.

19 February 2015

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Finovate Europe 2015 - Day 1 roundup

Crowdfunding, bitcoin, identity and security, and, of course, personal finance management dominated the first day of Finovate Europe in London. Finextra watched the demos, followed the tweets and spoke to the players. Here's what caught our eye.

10 February 2015

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CME turns down the volume on open outcry trading

It's the end of an era in Chicago as the CME Group announces plans to close most of its open outcry futures trading pits in the summer.

05 February 2015

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Bats moves into foreign exchange with Hotspot FX acquisition

Bats Global Market has acquired institutional spot foreign exchange market Hotspot FX from KCG Holdings in a cash transaction valued at $365 million.

28 January 2015

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Bitcoin price soars on Coinbase exchange launch

Coinbase has launched America's first regulated bitcoin exchange, helping to push the crypto currency's price past the $280 mark.

26 January 2015

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NY Attorney General turns up the pressure on Barclays

New York's Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is ratcheting up the pressure on Barclays Bank as he expands his lawsuit accusing the bank of fraud in the operation of its US dark pool.

22 January 2015

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Money managers to set up own dark pool

Fidelity and eight other money managers have set up a joint venture company to launch a private dark pool for buying and selling large blocks of stocks without the involvement of banks and predatory high frequency trading firms.

20 January 2015

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Fidelity adds 'Stocks Nearby' feature to iPhone app

Fidelity Investments has added a location-based feature to its iPhone app that tells users about nearby publicly traded companies.

14 January 2015

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Trading talent and tech driving up buy-side budgets - Greenwich Associates

Institutional investors around the world spent more than $12 billion on their trading desks last year as they raced to keep pace with the growing speed of electronic markets, changes in market structure and lower trading costs, according to a report from Greenwich Associates.

12 January 2015

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Nasdaq looks to jump into bank dark pools

With volumes on lit exchanges in the doldrums, Nasdaq has approached a number of big banks about taking over operation of their dark pools the Wall Street Journal reports.

12 January 2015

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2014: That was the year that was

As Finextra pulls the shutters down on 2014, we take a look back at our most popular news stories, videos, features and blogs over the course of the past year. The site will re-open for business on 2 January 2015.

22 December 2014

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Bitcoin margin trading platform launched in Vietnam

VBTC Vietnam and Coinarch have launched VBTC plus, Vietnam’s first bitcoin leverage trading platform.

16 December 2014

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Euronext launches app for retail investors

Downloadable from the Apple App Store, the new iOS app provides investors with access to market information, direct to their mobile devices, from Euronext's cash markets and other equity exchanges.

16 December 2014

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Citi closes LavaFlow ECN

American banking giant Citigroup says that it will shut down its LavaFlow ECN alternative trading platform next month.

02 December 2014

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Symphony acquires technology assets of Markit chat unit

Reference data firm Markit has backed out of the running to develop a rival to Bloomberg's instant messaging network, instead selling the technology assets of its Collaboration unit to back-backed Symphony Communication Services.

02 December 2014

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SilverLake sells IPC to Centrebridge Partners for $1.2 billion

Private equity firm Silver Lake has sold financial communications business IPC to Centrebridge Partners for $1.2 billion.

02 December 2014

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Neptune bids to FIX liquidity shortage in bond trading

The FIX trading community has agreed a set of best practices for use of the messaging protocol for the exchange of pre-trade information in the bond market, as banks and asset managers work together to overcome a liquidity shortage in fixed income trading.

25 November 2014

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Goldman takes stake in data analytics platform Kensho

Goldman Sachs has led a $15 million investment round in Kensho, a startup that is seeking to supplant human equity analysts with intelligent big data mining bots.

24 November 2014