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Nasdaq OMX is working with vendor Xignite to expand its Data-On-Demand cloud service for historical stock trade and quote data.
26 April 2011
Around 16% of European share trading is over-the-counter (OTC), far less than claimed by stock exchanges, according to a study from the Association for Financial Markets in Europe (Afme).
20 April 2011
Chi-X Global is in advanced talks with four trading firms and banks to take a minority stake in the alternative share trading platform operator reports the FT, citing "three people familiar with the matter".
Having been rebuffed once, Nasdaq OMX and IntercontinentalExchange have come out fighting in their bid to hijack Deutsche Boerse's planned takeover of Nyse Euronext, insisting that their proposal is "superior by a significant and inescapable margin".
19 April 2011
CFTC Commissioner Bart Chilton has hit back at Republican plans to delay for 18 months all rulemakings involving derivatives under the Dodd-Frank financial regulation law.
18 April 2011
The revolving door is spinning again at Chi-X Europe as chief financial officer Kevin O'Keefe confirms his intention to depart the European MTF in the wake of its recent take-over by Bats Global Markets.
Central bankers have expressed fears that reform of the over-the-counter derivatives markets is being hampered by delays and inconsistencies in approaches across national jurisdictions.
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Nigel Harold, head of technology business development at the London Stock Exchange talks with Finextra about enhancements to their data centre, which includes proximity hosting supplied by Colt at this year's TradeTech conference in London.
17 April 2011
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is contemplating the creation of a new 'Division of Market Data Collection and Analysis' to keep pace with computer-based trading and reduce its reliance on the exchanges it regulates for data dissemination.
14 April 2011
US financial regulators the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission have been awarded big budget increases by the Senate Appropriations Committee.
13 April 2011
Natan Tiefenbrun, commercial director, Turquoise, London Stock Exchange, talks with Finextra about algo 'sign offs' and HFT regulations at the High Frequency Trading Focus Day at TradeTech 2011.
The UK's Financial Services Authority has no intention of "looking through lines of code" before signing off algorithms used by high-frequency traders, describing the prospect, floated by the European Commission, as a "bad idea".
12 April 2011
Chi-X Europe chief executive Alasdair Haynes is quitting in the wake of the multilateral trading facility's acquisition by Bats Global Markets.
Regulatory efforts to introduce more automation in manually-driven over-the-counter derivatives trading have been advanced by the publication of new research into the feasibility of rendering OTC documentation in machine-readable format.
11 April 2011
Nyse Euronext's board has rejected a takeover bid from Nasdaq OMX and IntercontinentalExchange, branding the offer risky and "strategically unattractive" and reaffirming its commitment to completing a deal with Deutsche Boerse.
Allan Schoenberg of the CME Group talks with Finextra about the social media 'lightbulb moment'.
Europe's exchanges have hit out at plans to create a new type of trading venue category as part of MiFID's overhaul, warning the proposal will cause an "irreversible race to the bottom" for regulation.
08 April 2011
LSE majority-owned Turquoise has shuffled its management team, with chief executive David Lester becoming chairman, replaced by chief operating officer Adrian Farnham.
Australian Treasurer Wayne Swan has formally rejected the Singapore Exchange's A$8.4 billion takeover of ASX, calling his decision a "no brainer".
European stock exchanges together with Thomson Reuters, Bloomberg, the LSE and Nyse Euronext have agreed a framework for developing a consolidated tape of post-trade equity reporting data across Europe.
07 April 2011
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