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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.
29 January 2013
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
Finextra TV/Trade execution
Stuart Clark, MD and Will Cawthorne, head of sales, both of Impendium examine the impact of Mifid and the coming of Mifid II on the European market.
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
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
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