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Share price volatility is affected by the chatter of public opinion on social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook, according to UK financial professionals.
13 February 2013
The London Stock Exchange has acquired a 67% stake in Italian low latency software house Gatelab.
11 February 2013
Nyse Euronext is shutting down its electronic block trading venue because of a lack of interest.
New rules on the processing of derivatives contracts over exchange platforms are set to come into force in mid-March after being passed by the European Parliament.
08 February 2013
DCM Capital, provider of algorithmic sentiment analysis technology, put itself up for auction on its website today, with the tag line 'We're for sale'.
04 February 2013
Crowdcube, the equity crowdfunding website, is now authorised by the Financial Services Authority (FSA). The authorisation makes Crowdcube the only regulated equity crowdfunding platform where investors can become direct shareholders in UK businesses.
An official of the US Treasury Department's Office of Financial Research (OFR) has been selected to be chair of an international committee overseeing the launch of the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI), a global standard for financial data.
30 January 2013
Nasdaq OMX is merging its data and index businesses as it continues to seek ways to reduce its reliance on stagnating stock market volumes.
29 January 2013
Defunct day trading firm Swift Trade has lost its appeal against an £8 million fine for market manipulation handed down by the UK's Financial Services Authority in 2011.
Slib, a software publisher and Application Services Provider for the European financial services industry, has contracted IBM to help overhaul its IT infrastructure.
28 January 2013
With funding from Spark Capital and Getco in the bag, Quantopian, a start-up building what it claims to be the world's first browser-based algorithmic trading platform, has emerged from beta.
24 January 2013
ConvergEx is selling Eze Castle Software and RealTick to private equity firm TPG Capital. Financial terms of the all-cash deal were not disclosed.
23 January 2013
Nasdaq OMX is to combine its Market Technology and Corporate Solutions businesses in an effort to reduce its reliance on stagnating stock market volumes and build "one of the top technology organisations in the world".
17 January 2013
Pan-European electronic trading venue Equiduct could be forced to close down after being told that its largest shareholder Citadel Securities will stop market-making on the platform within weeks, according to press reports.
A group of five central securities depositories (CSDs) from around the world have formed a liquidity alliance designed to help solve the global collateral shortage prompted by the 2007 financial crisis and subsequent regulatory changes.
16 January 2013
High-frequency traders and exchange operators have spoken out against German government plans to make HFT practitioners obtain prior authorisation to operate.
15 January 2013
The Securities and Exchange Commission has knocked back proposals by Nasdaq that would have allowed the exchange to compete with US brokers in the provision of algorithmic trading software tools.
The outfit behind a now-defunct Twitter sentiment-based hedge fund is bidding to tap the technology for a new online trading platform.
11 January 2013
Bats Global Markets has warned traders that its systems have carried out hundreds of thousands of transactions over the last four years at prices that were not the best available.
10 January 2013
JPMorgan has begun the roll-out of a new electronic multi-asset client trading system, consolidating more than 30 individual platforms into a single user interface.
07 January 2013
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