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A technical glitch saw Nasdaq-listed stock prices and index levels freeze for around 15 minutes yesterday.
04 January 2013
As Finextra pulls the shutters down on 2012, 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 2013.
21 December 2012
The European Commission has approved new licensing proposals from Thomson Reuters for the use of Reuters Instrument Codes (RICs), ending a prolonged anti-trust investigation.
20 December 2012
IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) has agreed an $8.2 billion deal to acquire Nyse Euronext in a stock-and-cash transaction.
Getco has emerged as the winner in a two-way bidding war to take over Knight Capital, beating out rival Virtu with an improved £1.2 billion cash and shares offer.
19 December 2012
Nasdaq OMX was forced to cancel pre-market trades in nine stocks, including Citi and Goldman Sachs, yesterday after they caused huge price swings.
14 December 2012
The Australian Securities and Investment Commission (Asic) has selected First Derivatives to design, build and host a new market surveillance system.
13 December 2012
Bursa Malaysia has selected Nasdaq OMX's X-Stream Inet technology to power its securities market trading.
12 December 2012
Nasdaq OMX has acquired a 25% stake in Dutch MTF The Order Machine (TOM) as it bids to build up its European equity derivatives business.
11 December 2012
Nasdaq OMX insists that human error, rather than technology, was behind its latest botched initial public offering (IPO).
06 December 2012
High Frequency trading firm Getco has made a $3.50 a share offer for Knight Capital Group, which it helped rescue from bankruptcy over the summer.
28 November 2012
Graham Dick, former head of business development at Chi-X Europe and Mark Schaedel former global head of market data at Nyse Euronext, have called on EU equity market practitioners to get behind their plans for the delivery of an industry-led pan-European consolidated tape.
27 November 2012
In a move billed by the standards-setting body as a key milestone in the development of an EU-wide consolidated tape, Fix Protocol Limited has released a set of standards for the consolidation of trade reports and market data for European equity markets.
26 November 2012
The UK's Financial Services Authority has fined UBS £29.7 million for serious failings that allowed rogue trader Kweku Adoboli to rack up £1.4 billion in losses from unauthorised trading.
In a bid to curb high-frequency trading, Australia has unveiled plans for the introduction of 'kill switches' as part of a wider package of new market integrity rules.
21 November 2012
Kweku Adoboli, the UBS trader accused of running up £1.4 billion of losses in unauthorised trading at Swiss bank UBS, has been jailed for seven years after being found guilty of two counts of fraud.
20 November 2012
E*Trade Financial is planning to close its UK brokerage business and focus on the US, according to the Wall Street Journal.
19 November 2012
The management of Swedish agency broker and systems supplier Neonet has teamed up with Hay Tor Capital and Kas Bank to buy the business from Nordic Capital.
16 November 2012
The vast majority of buy-side firms feel that institutional investors have had no meaningful influence on the legislative process building up to new MiFID II rules, according to a Greenwich Associates survey.
14 November 2012
Caplin Systems has launched what it claims is the world's first production-ready Web trading tool built entirely on the HTML5 standard, enabling it to work across all mobile devices.
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