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German banking technology vendor Wincor Nixdorf has decided not to offer a quantitative forecast for its 2011/2012 results, claiming the Eurozone sovereign debt crisis is making predictions pointless.
09 November 2011
Virgin boss Richard Branson has reputedly made a 'multimillion dollar' personal investment in Square, the US-based startup that enables small businesses to take credit card payments on their mobile phones.
08 November 2011
McGraw-Hill and CME Group have agreed a deal to pool their S&P and Dow Jones index businesses in a new joint venture.
04 November 2011
Japanese telco NTT Docomo has moved to boost its mobile payments operations in Germany, buying a controlling stake in private bank Bankverein Werther.
Markit has acquired Quantitative Services Group (QSG), a provider of independent equity research, trading analytics and investment consulting services. Financial terms were not disclosed.
02 November 2011
Accenture has signed a deal to acquire Itaca Service, an IT services business owned by Banco Popolare subsidiary, Banca Italease. The vendor has also inked five year outsourcing agreements with Banco Popolare and Itaca Service customer Alba Leasing.
01 November 2011
Shares in UK screen-dealing software house Patsystems fell over 10% yesterday on news of the collapse of MF Global, a major customer accounting for recurring revenue of around £3 million.
The board of TMX Group has finally recommended that shareholders accept a C$3.8 billion takeover offer from a consortium of Canadian banks and pension funds.
31 October 2011
Visa Europe has invested £24.7 million in Monitise and put its CEO, Peter Ayliffe, on the UK mobile money outfit's board.
National Australia Bank increased spending by over a half on its IT infrastructure last year as it grappled with a series of breakdowns in its online platforms and poured more cash into a core banking transformation project.
28 October 2011
Plus Markets is facing a shareholder revolt calling for the dismissal of chairman Giles Vardy and the re-instatement of founder Simon Brickles to the board of the embattled company.
24 October 2011
The independent directors of Aim-listed mobile and online banking software outfit Parseq have backed a £33.8 million takeover offer from a consortium led by chief executive Rami Cassis.
The chief executive and chairman of cashless payments vendor USA Technologies has resigned over "inappropriate" comments he posted on the Yahoo Finance message board.
19 October 2011
ACI Worldwide has pulled of a deal to acquire bitter rival S1 for approximately $360 million in cash and 5.8 million ACI shares.
03 October 2011
UK screen-dealing software house Patsystems has issued a profits warning as sales to emerging exchanges are hit by economic and financial turmoil.
The London Stock Exchange and Singapore Exchange have teamed up on a joint bid for the London Metals Exchange, according to Reuters.
30 September 2011
Thomson Reuters is to break up its gargantuan Markets and Professional divisions in favour of smaller and more focussed business units as part of a major restructuring of the company that has already seen the exit of a number of senior staffers.
28 September 2011
UK fintech vendor Misys has posted a four per cent rise in revenues for the first quarter but order intake was down thanks to delayed sales at the recently acquired Sophis unit.
The London Stock Exchange appears set to beat off competition from Markit to take over LCH.Clearnet after securing backing from the clearer's board for a deal.
27 September 2011
Anglo-Dutch publishing firm Reed Elsevier has agreed a £343 million cash deal to buy US reference data specialist Accuity.
26 September 2011
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