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Chinese hackers made $3 million trading on confidential M&A data swiped from corporate lawyers

Three Chinese citizens who traded on insider information by hacking into the systems of two New York-based law firms have been fined $8.8 million by the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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NEX Group launches EBS JPY Benchmark

NEX Data, a NEX Group business which delivers independent market intelligence and price information for OTC data and NEX Markets, a NEX Group business which provides electronic trading technology and services, announces the launch of the EBS JPY Benchmark, the first fully electronic, transaction-backed reference rate for the Japanese yen (JPY).

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NEX Data creates FX margin ratios for the Financial Futures Association of Japan

NEX Data, a NEX Group business which delivers independent market intelligence and price information for OTC data, announces today that it has been mandated by the Financial Futures Association of Japan (FFAJ) to create foreign exchange (FX) margin ratios for 170 currency pairs.

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Cinnober acquires defunct market surveillance firm Ancoa

Stockholm-headquartered Cinnober has acquires UK-based market surveillance outfit Ancoa, which filed for bankruptcy in 2016 after failing to generate fresh funding.

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Hong Kong to tighten cyber-security rules in wake of multiple stock hacks

Hong Kong's Securities and Futures Commission is proposing new rules to strengthen cyber-security controls for stock trading following a spate of hacking incidents that resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars in losses.

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Broadway Technology raises $42m

Broadway Technology, a leading provider of high-performance software and infrastructure for global financial institutions, announced today that it has closed a $42 million minority investment led by Long Ridge Equity Partners.

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Tech innovations in corporate bond markets starting to bear fruit

Despite continued liquidity shortages in many global fixed-income markets, corporate bond execution venues and offerings that were a mere idea a few years ago are finally consolidating and starting to bear fruit—making it easier for investors to execute certain trades.

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KB Tech scores European Commodity Clearing contract

The European Commodity Clearing (ECC) cooperates with KB TECH Ltd. to expand access to cleared commodity markets for trading participants.

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GreenKey files patent on MiFID II voice-driven e-trading technology

GreenKey Technologies, creator of an artificial intelligence (AI) and voice-driven collaboration tool for financial market participants, announced today that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has accepted its application for human speech-to-text and subsequent interpretation of spoken financial trades in a fast and accurate manner.

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Bondecosystem and TransFICC partner on bond market connectivity

Outsourced connectivity specialist Bondecosystem® has partnered with financial technology company, TransFICC, to deliver a premier connectivity solution to the bond market, resulting in ultra-low latency execution and fast, reliable and scalable connectivity to electronic Fixed Income venues.

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ALA ships new analytic tools to track investment sentiment

Advanced Logic Analytics (ALA), a provider of enterprise wide big data and analytics solutions for buy- and sell-side institutions and other financial firms, is pleased to announce the introduction of advanced finance analytics to help financial markets firms reduce downside investment risk and achieve upside potential.

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ICE brings precise timing to UK data centre for MiFID II compliance

In a high-frequency trading world where every microsecond counts, Intercontinental Exchange has struck a deal with the UK's National Physical Laboratory to ensure co-location customers at its data centre in Basildon get precise timing.

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Seedrs to launch secondary market

Today, leading equity crowdfunding platform Seedrs announced a pioneering move for the sector with the launch of a secondary market this summer.

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Nasdaq calls for market reform to help smaller firms

Technological advances and regulatory changes over the last 10 years have transformed the way that markets function, but small and medium growth firms are not feeling the benefit, says Nasdaq.

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EBS BrokerTec to be renamed NEX Markets

NEX Group plc (“NEX”) (NXG.L), a financial technology company at the centre of the global markets, announces today that its EBS BrokerTec business which provides electronic trading technology and services to the foreign exchange (FX) and fixed income markets, will be renamed NEX Markets.

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Voice trading is here to stay - Greenwich Associates

Despite the trend towards electronic trading, voice communications between traders and their clients still sit at the heart of global financial markets.

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Thomson Reuters API promises greater desktop interoperability on Eikon

Financial professionals using Thomson Reuters flagship desktop can now integrate their internal and partner applications through the launch of its Side by Side Integration API.

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RIXML creates MiFID II working group

RIXML.org has created a new Interactions Working Group that brings buy-side, sell-side, and vendor firms together to create an open standard for capturing the inter-firm interactions required under the second Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (“MiFID II”).

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TIM Group hires new US sales director

TIM Group, the global provider of software, services and platforms for institutional investors to achieve market-beating returns has recruited a new Sales Director in its New York office to increase its footprint in a key market and to continue to support its US clients.

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Commission proposes simpler and more efficient derivatives rules

The European Commission is today proposing some targeted reforms to improve the functioning of the derivatives market in the EU.