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The ongoing restructuring of IT responsibilities at Deutsche Börse continues as the German exchange names Swiss-born IT engineer Rene Keller from Information Mosaic as its new Chief Information Officer.
29 October 2013
Coinfloor, a London-based bitcoin exchange bidding to build a market for high-frequency trading in the virtual currency, has opened its doors.
Nyse Technologies CEO Jon Robson and COO Terry Roche are set to leave the firm once parent company Nyse Euronext closes its $10 billion sale to IntercontinentalExchange, according to the Financial Times.
28 October 2013
The European Parliament has hammered out a preliminary deal with EU member states on how to regulate high-frequency trading.
23 October 2013
Knight Capital has reached a $12 million settlement with US regulators over a technology meltdown which caused market chaos and drove the firm to the brink of bankruptcy.
17 October 2013
Investors were left frustrated this morning when the online and phone systems of broker Hargreaves Lansdown failed to hold up under the weight of traffic prompted by the Royal Mail market debut.
11 October 2013
Yves Baguet is quitting his roles as Deutsche Börse chief technology officer and Clearstream CIO, and will be replaced by company man Richard Green.
Payward, the US firm behind digital currency exchange Kraken, has set its eyes on the European market through an exclusive partnership with Germany's Fidor Bank.
09 October 2013
The Securities and Exchange Commission is launching a public Web site packed with reams of the kind of data, research and analysis used by HFT traders in a bid to "transform the debate on market structure".
04 October 2013
Browser-based algorithmic trading start-up Quantopian has secured $6.7M in Series A financing from Khosla Ventures and existing investor Spark Capital.
02 October 2013
Sweden's CameronTec has signed a definitive agreement to buy US FIX and electronic trading tech specialist Greenline Financial Technologies from MarketAxess. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Citi's latest philanthropic effort will see the bank hand over money to education-related non-profits based on foreign exchange trading volumes on its Velocity electronic platform.
01 October 2013
MyHero, the Singapore-based outfit behind a mobile stock market simulation app, has raised US$10 million in series a funding from Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers China fund and IPV Capital.
27 September 2013
New York's attorney general has vowed to tackle the shadier side of high-frequency trading, setting up a confidential hotline for whistle-blowers to report what he calls 'insider trading 2.0'.
25 September 2013
A Nashville-based publishing firm is launching a music stock exchange, offering investors the chance to buy stock in songs and get a cut of royalties.
24 September 2013
US exchanges have agreed to implement 'kill switches' to shut down trading in the event of a technological failure.
13 September 2013
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission is seeking public comment on further proposals to curb high-speed derivatives trading.
10 September 2013
Nyse Euronext has acquired a minority stake in ACE as it bids to enter the market for private placement of securities.
09 September 2013
China Everbright Securities lost $85.5 million due to a technical glitch in its order management system which flooded the market with erroneous buy orders and seriously disrupted trading in China last month.
Nasdaq has outlined a series of steps to improve the resilience of the Securities Information Processor following a second brief outage just weeks after a malfunction in the market data feed forced the exchange to shut down for three hours.
05 September 2013
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