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As Finextra pulls the shutters down on 2013, 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 2014.
20 December 2013
Transaction brokerage ConvergEx has agreed to pay $150 million to settle charges that it deceived institutional clients into paying substantially higher amounts than disclosed for the execution of trading orders
19 December 2013
Fintech powerhouse SunGard is sharing the results of a two-day corporate hackathon which saw 103 teams in 17 cities around the world compete to develop innovative new financial service apps.
13 December 2013
The World Federation of Exchanges (WFE) has launched the exchange industry's first cyber-security committee, to help fend off the threat from hackers targetting mission critical market infrastructures.
12 December 2013
New research from Australia's Capital Markets Cooperative Research Centre (CMCRC) has found that the presence of high-frequency traders improves market fairness by reducing end-of-day (EOD) price dislocation.
09 December 2013
On the day it was fined EUR725 million by the EU for rate rigging, Deutsche Bank has confirmed that it has banned traders from using chat rooms, which have proved a fruitful hunting ground for regulators sniffing out market manipulation.
04 December 2013
The UK and Irish capital markets are to move to a shortened T+2 securities settlement timeframe with effect from October 2014.
02 December 2013
A collection of Hong Kong-licensed brokers have enlisted Markit to help them comply with new electronic trading rules on the island.
29 November 2013
EU proposals to impose volume caps on transactions executed over dark pool trading venues are meeting stiff resistance from investors, according to research from Tabb Group.
28 November 2013
UBS has become the latest bank to ban traders from using multi-dealer and social chat rooms, which are being trawled by regulators for evidence of market manipulation.
Nasdaq transaction services lead Eric Noll has quit the US exchange to join capital markets brokerage and tech house ConvergEx Group as president.
26 November 2013
Compliance and beyond: navigating challenges and exploring opportunities in the Nordic financial landscape
21 November 2013
IntercontinentalExchange has confirmed plans to sell Nyse Euronext's technology unit and spin off the Euronext exchange in an initial public offering.
20 November 2013
Project First, the European Union-backed research effort to find a way of extracting and analysing financial services-related sentiment from social media networks, has concluded with the launch of a prototype market surveillance system.
13 November 2013
Finextra and Level39, in association with Innotribe, are to host a two-day conference exploring the new wave of innovation sweeping across the financial services sector.
12 November 2013
Spain's la Caixa is bidding to boost take-up of its online broker service with the launch of a social network for investors, a range of new interactive tools, and revamped mobile and tablet apps.
08 November 2013
As European law-makers close in on a deal to tighten rules on high-frequency trading, a new paper from the ECB warns that curbing the practice could make markets less efficient.
06 November 2013
Aquis Exchange, a pan-European trading exchange set up by industry veteran Alasdair Haynes, has received approval from the UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to begin trading as a multilateral trading facility.
04 November 2013
Nyse Euronext and IntercontinentalExchange have postponed the closing date of their pending merger transaction as they await approval from European regulators.
31 October 2013
As Nyse Euronext carries out systems testing ahead of the upcoming Twitter IPO, rival Nasdaq OMX has blamed human error for its latest outage.
30 October 2013
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