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New swaps data reporting rules have left the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) floundering in a sea of data, its computers crashing under the strain, claims one of the watchdog's own commissioners.
20 March 2013
ION Group's acquisition spree shows no sign of ending, with the fintech firm's Pattington subsidiary agreeing to buy FFastFill in a cash deal which values the UK derivatives trading vendor at £106.1 million.
15 February 2013
A former Goldman Sachs trader has been charged by US regulators with bypassing internal systems to conceal an $8.3 billion position from the bank and defraud it of $118 million.
09 November 2012
The CBOE Futures Exchange (CFE) is to establish a London hub and expand trading of its popular VIX contract to 24-hours in 2013.
07 September 2012
CME Group, operator of the world's largest futures exchange, has applied to the Financial Services Authority to establish a European derivatives market based in London.
20 August 2012
IntercontinentalExchange says it will bring open-outcry floor trading at its ICE Futures US unit to an end in October, going exclusively electronic.
27 July 2012
Chicago-based exchange operator CME Group is opening a technology-focused office in Belfast, creating up to 90 jobs.
03 May 2012
The US Securities and Exchange Commission has charged online brokerage optionsXpress, four of its employees and one customer in connection with a naked short selling scheme.
17 April 2012
Swiss-German derivatives exchange Eurex is to move to an entirely new trading platform in a phased migration beginning in December 2012.
09 February 2012
UK screen-dealing software house Patsystems has issued a profits warning as sales to emerging exchanges are hit by economic and financial turmoil.
03 October 2011
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is to push ahead with a tranche of new rules governing market manipulation and large trader reporting under the Dodd-Frank financial reform act.
08 July 2011
Deutsche Börse has acquired a minority stake in Digital Vega, a small London based company which provides electronic FX options trading technology to buy and sell-side firms.
06 July 2011
The Boston Options Exchange (BOX) has filed a lawsuit against three bigger rivals, accusing them of infringing its price improvement processor patent.
11 May 2011
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is contemplating the creation of a new 'Division of Market Data Collection and Analysis' to keep pace with computer-based trading and reduce its reliance on the exchanges it regulates for data dissemination.
14 April 2011
Nyse Euronext has finally submitted plans to the Securities and Exchange Commission to sell half of its interest in the Amex stock options market to a group of global dealers.
22 March 2011
Charles Schwab has struck a definitive agreement to buy online brokerage optionsXpress for $1 billion in stock.
21 March 2011
A Chicago judge has fined Rosenthal Collins Group $1 million for misconduct in a patent infringement case involving Trading Technologies International.
02 March 2011
Swedish trading technology vendor Cinnober has acquired a three per cent stake in UK rival FfastFill.
25 February 2011
The London Stock Exchange is making a play for the European derivatives market, launching a platform based on technology from TMX Group.
24 February 2011
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is on course to run out of room to store its data by October because of an £11 million technology budget cut, Commissioner Scott O'Malia has claimed.
26 January 2011
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