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Pan-European exchange Equiduct has been rescued from the brink of oblivion by a group of new investors after its largest shareholder Citadel pulled its backing from the platform.
30 April 2013
A badly bungled systems reconfiguration at the Chicago Board Options Exchange that shut down trading for three-and-a-half hours last week is set to increase pressure on the CBOE to let rival exchanges trade its proprietary options products.
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Analysing how often key finance-related words are searched for using Google could help predict stock market moves, a new academic paper suggests.
26 April 2013
Agency brokerage Bloomberg Tradebook is reporting an accelerating trend among market participants to execute their trading strategies in dark pools, away from the glare of lit markets.
25 April 2013
US securities regulators are seeking an exemption for some financial firms to state laws banning employers from monitoring the Facebook and Twitter accounts of their staffers.
24 April 2013
The Dow Jones briefly plummeted yesterday after hackers took control of the Associated Press's Twitter account and used it spread a bogus claim that the White House had been hit by a terrorist attack.
Nyse Euronext is suing Dutch MTF The Order Machine (TOM) for listing options based on the AEX index without a licence.
CME Group says that a software bug at its swaps data repository earlier this month allowed some traders to see confidential details on hundreds of transactions.
23 April 2013
The technology-driven revolution in securities markets in recent years requires regulators to overhaul their surveillance operations with a focus on the micro-management of trade data, says a report from the International Organization of Securities Commissions (Iosco).
22 April 2013
Pan-European equities exchange Bats Chi-X Europe has hired one of the founders of rival platform Equiduct, David Howson, as chief operating officer.
The Financial Stability Board has mooted the creation of a central utility for sharing aggregated trade data, as evidence mounts that national jurisdictions are lagging in implementing OTC derivatives trading reforms.
19 April 2013
Tradition has launched ParFX, a spot forex trading platform with the backing of 11 major banks, including Barclays and UBS.
18 April 2013
Bloomberg has filed a lawsuit against a US derivatives regulator over new margin rules that differentiate between swaps and futures.
17 April 2013
Shares in Fidessa fell more than five per cent in morning trading after the fintech vendor warned that continuing tough market conditions will make growth "challenging".
15 April 2013
The bosses of three major US exchanges met regulators yesterday to voice their concern about the amount of trading moving away from their public venues to private platforms such as dark pools.
10 April 2013
New York-based start-up Coinsetter has raised $500,000 in seed funding as it prepares to launch its forex trading platform for bitcoin.
Online foreign exchange trading platform FXCM has offered to buy rival Gain Capital for $210.4 million in stock.
09 April 2013
Citi has filed a claim with Nasdaq OMX to receive compensation relating to the exchange operator's botched Facebook IPO but has not ruled out further legal action, according to Reuters.
A former Goldman Sachs trader has pleaded guilty to fabricating trades on a manual system to hide an unauthorised $8.3 billion futures bet.
05 April 2013
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