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After seeing revenue and profits tumble for much of 2009, Thomson Reuters CEO Tom Glocer says there was a "marked uptick" in sales at the news and data firm towards the end of the year.
27 January 2010
Brazil's BM&FBovespa has hired former Icap executive Cathryn Lyall to head up its new London office, from where the exchange plans to build up a presence in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
General Atlantic has taken a $250 million stake in financial data and post-trade services group Markit.
UK payments group Earthport is looking to raise £875,000 in working capital through a placing of seven million shares at 12.5 pence each in a last-ditch bid to keep the firm afloat while it chases down an outstanding £3.25 million franchise payment from Zink Financial.
26 January 2010
Swedish vendors Orc Software and Neonet are recommending a merger to their shareholders in a deal that would see them combine equity and derivatives trading technology expertise.
25 January 2010
German IT company Wincor Nixdorf says there are precious few signs of an imminent recovery in retail banking markets as it reports another quarter of depressed net sales and profits.
The London Stock Exchange is reporting a nine per cent slide in third quarter revenue as competition from rival execution venues intensifies.
21 January 2010
Tsys says it will cut more jobs this year after reporting a 9.2% fall in net income for the fourth quarter as revenue from electronic payment processing services fell.
Deutsche Bank's global transaction banking unit has agreed to take an eight per cent equity stake in cross-border payments outfit Eurogiro. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
20 January 2010
Earthport chief executive officer James Bergman has resigned from the UK-based payments firm "with immediate effect", as rumours swirl about the future viability of the international money transfer business.
Deutsche Börse is to take a write-down of EUR200 million on its 2009 earnings following a poor showing in US equity options trading by the International Securities Exchange.
San Francisco-based online mobile payments start-up Boku has raised $25 million in a series c financing round led by Dag Ventures and joined by existing investors Benchmark Capital, Index Ventures and Khosla Ventures.
19 January 2010
E*Trade has acquired Cake Financial, an online investment club where users could import and track their data from multiple brokerages and share it with other people. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
15 January 2010
Oberthur Technologies has acquired a service centre in Bogotá from local vendor Dyetron in a bid to take advantage of Colombia's EMV migration programme. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Misys has reported an 11% fall in revenues at its banking unit for the first half, although the gloom was partially offset by more encouraging news at the firm's healthcare and treasury and capital markets divisions.
14 January 2010
French smart card supplier Gemalto is to book an exceptional charge of up to EUR10 million in its 2009 results to cover financial claims stemming from a Y2K-related coding error that rendered millions of German payment cards unable to process the 2010 date-change.
13 January 2010
Liquidnet has made a strategic, unspecified, investment in OTR Global, an alternative research company providing market intelligence for institutional investors.
12 January 2010
Virgin Money has taken a decisive step into the UK retail banking market after agreeing to buy the small regional private bank Church House Trust for £12.3 million.
08 January 2010
Swiss core banking vendor Temenos has signed a definitive agreement to buy French rival Viveo for around $81 million.
06 January 2010
Financial information group Dow Jones is to combine its enterprise and consumer divisions in a shake-up that will see the departure of Clare Hart, president of the enterprise business, who had championed a Web-based distribution strategy for the group.
05 January 2010
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