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Goldman Sachs is to offer clients streamlined '1Click' access to its suite of algorithmic trading programs in a global effort to improve ease of use and create consistency across its e-trading portfolio.
15 March 2010
Hirander Misra, former chief operating officer of Chi-X Europe has resurfaced as CEO and founding director of new firm Algo Technologies.
US firm Media Derivatives claims it will pip rival Cantor Fitzgerald to launch the first electronic futures exchange for trading movie box office receipt contracts.
11 March 2010
Shares in Tullett Prebon have jumped 17% after the UK interdealer broker confirmed that it was in talks with a potential acquirer.
10 March 2010
The new management team at Turquoise has been confirmed, with CEO David Lester joined by Baikal head of technology Mark Ryland.
Swiss bank UBS is planning to launch a dark pool multilateral trading facility (MTF) for crossing orders in European stocks.
09 March 2010
The London Stock Exchange (LSE) has sold nine per cent of its 60% stake in the merged Turquoise and Baikal businesses to Barclays, JP Morgan Cazenove and Nomura, with each bank paying £1 million for a three per cent stake.
08 March 2010
Deutsche Börse's IT unit is working with open source vendor Red Hat as it bids to enable real-time transaction risk management for financial services clients.
03 March 2010
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York has welcomed commitments by 14 major dealers to ramp up efforts to cut risks and improve post-trade automation and transparency in the over-the-counter derivatives markets.
The Frankfurt Stock Exchange is set to end floor trading by 2012 and go exclusively electronic with the Deutsche Börse Xetra platform.
01 March 2010
Investment analysis and index firm MSCI has agreed a deal to acquire the rival RiskMetrics Group in a cash and stock deal worth $1.55 billion.
Cantor Fitzgerald is set to launch an electronic futures exchange in April that lets traders hedge and speculate on the financial performance of movies.
24 February 2010
Hirander Misra, chief operating officer of Chi-X Europe, has quit the mutlilateral trading facility to "pursue other interests".
23 February 2010
The credit crisis and rise of electronic trading have led to a fundamental shift in the global foreign exchange market towards risk mitigation over the last couple of years, according to research from CME Group.
22 February 2010
In a bid to attract high-frequency traders, Bloomberg has expanded its machine-readable news output to offer trending analytics on the hottest content passing over its terminals.
19 February 2010
The London Stock Exchange has completed the acquisition of Turquoise Trading and installed former LSE CIO David Lester as chief executive, ahead of Turquoise incumbent Eli Lederman and Baikal CEO John Wilson.
18 February 2010
Nasdaq OMX has upped its stake in Agora-X, an ECN for trading over-the-counter (OTC) commodity contracts, from 20% to 85% through a $6.6 million investment.
17 February 2010
German exchange operator Deutsche Börse has outlined plans to save EUR50 million through an unspecified number of job cuts and outsourcing initiatives after reporting a EUR33 million net loss for the fourth quarter.
British, Dutch and Swiss regulators have agreed a new framework for linkages between clearing counterparties in an effort to allay fears about systemic risks and inject fresh competition into the market.
12 February 2010
Brazil's BM&F Bovespa is increasing its stake in Chicago's CME Group to five per cent, at a cost of $620 million as part of an agreement between the two exchanges that will also see them jointly develop a multi-asset class electronic trading platform.
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