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Plus Markets says a group of investors from the Middle East has agreed to invest up to £5.5 million for a 19% stake in the UK small and mid-cap exchange.
07 September 2009
IBM veteran Dominique Cerutti is favourite to take over from retiring Nyse Euronext deputy chief executive Jean-Francois Theodore, according to French daily L'Agefi.
02 September 2009
Banks and brokers active in the derivatives markets have warned the European Commission to tread carefully in regulating the over-the-counter markets for fear of stifling innovation and increasing instability.
Fico is up almost 22% in the Finextra50, while Nucleus Software drops 23%. However, on the whole the Finextra50 remained steady with no major drop or rise.
London clearing house LCH.Clearnet has selected BT's Radianz shared market infrastructure to connect to group members around the world.
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has appointed former Lehman Brothers CIO Bridget O'Connor as managing director and chief technology officer.
01 September 2009
Multilateral trading facility Chi-X Europe has outlined plans for an aggressive pricing promotion this autumn as the battle for equity market share across the continent continues to rage.
28 August 2009
Nyse Euronext has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire, through its technology unit, US trading systems vendor Nyfix in a cash deal worth around $144 million.
27 August 2009
Morgan Stanley has hired former Citi electronic trading head Richard Evans to take charge of its automated execution business in the European equity markets, the Wall Street Journal reports.
Nasdaq OMX and Brazil's BM&F Bovespa have entered into exclusive discussions aimed at setting up a strategic, commercial and technological partnership. Meanwhile, local press reports suggest the LSE and Nyse Euronext are both considering taking five per cent stakes in India's MCX-SX.
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has been urged to conduct a comprehensive review of market structure by US Senator Ted Kaufman, who warns that practices such as algorithmic trading and the use of dark pools may erode investor confidence.
26 August 2009
Deutsche Börse has selected messaging technology from IBM as part of a project to bring its Eurex, ISE and Xetra exchanges onto a common IT infrastructure.
25 August 2009
The Australian government has handed the country's regulator responsibility for supervising real-time trading on markets, in a move that is expected to end the monopoly currently enjoyed by the ASX.
24 August 2009
In a breakthrough that could prove significant for investment banks running electronic trading systems, computer scientists say they have developed an inexpensive way to track microsecond delays in data centre networks.
21 August 2009
Turquoise, the pan-European equity trading platform backed by nine investment banks, has begun looking for a buyer, sending out sales notices to as many as 18 potential bidders, according to Bloomberg.
18 August 2009
SmartPool, the European exchange-led dark pool for block trading set up by Nyse Euronext, BNP Paribas, HSBC and JPMorgan, is moving into pan-European mid-cap securities.
17 August 2009
Chi-Tech, the technology services unit of Chi-X Global, is to launch a new "ultra low-latency network" to provide multi-venue access to European trading destinations.
14 August 2009
Nyse Euronext subsidiary Liffe has suspended its European credit default swaps (CDS) clearing service after failing to attract a single trade since launching in December.
13 August 2009
The Finextra50 Technology Index continues its rise in July with an almost eight point gain. In a complete reversal from June, Fico was one of the top five gainers while Microgen slipped down to one of the top five losers.
12 August 2009
The London Stock Exchange is close to replacing the £40 million TradElect platform, says CEO Xavier Rolet in an interview with Dow Jones Newswires.
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