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UK screen dealing vendor FfastFill says it expects to report a small profit for the year despite "turbulent conditions" that have resulted in delays to the signing of contracts. The company has also named current COO Hamish Purdey as chief executive officer.
02 April 2009
Visa takes action against service providers after data breaches, Dutch banks bid online for new customers, and the latest research on mobile banking and the Payments Services Directive - it's all in this week's news review podcast.
19 March 2009
A new electronic futures exchange being set up by a group of banks and trading firms to take on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange plans to start live trading in June after a month of systems testing.
11 March 2009
Brazilian broker Ágora Corretora de Titulos e Valores Mobiliarios has rolled out Massachusetts-based Progress Software's Apama complex event processing (CEP) platform to support algorithmic equities trading.
06 February 2009
US online brokerage TD Ameritrade has moved to boost its options trading business by agreeing to buy thinkorswim in a cash and stock deal worth around $606 million.
08 January 2009
MF Global is to write off its 48% stake in ailing US Futures Exchange, spurring the mart to a last ditch effort to find a buyer for the business before the year end.
18 December 2008
GL Trade has closed a deal with Newedge Group, the global multi-asset brokerage firm, to extend the use of GL Instant Brokerage globally from its UK business to also cover its brokerage operations in Paris, New-York and Hong Kong.
16 December 2008
Cantor Fitzgerald has filed an application with regulators to launch an exchange that will allow users to hedge and speculate on the financial performance of movies.
08 December 2008
Nasdaq OMX has been chosen by the Futures & Options Association (FOA) to set up a UK spot and cash-settled derivatives power exchange.
27 November 2008
New York-based broker-dealer Ballista Securities has begun live trading on its alternative trading system (ATS) for block options and delta neutral orders.
10 November 2008
GL Trade has reported Q3 revenue up 10.5% to EUR162.8m despite its front-office sales being hit in Europe and sales of its Tradix and Sierra solutions falling worldwide.
06 November 2008
To terminate its LCH.Clearnet clearing contract the London-based derivatives exchange owned by Nyse Euronext will make a one-time payment of EUR260 million.
31 October 2008
Thomson Reuters has launched a hosted, low latency direct market data feed to the US Options Agency (Opra).
27 October 2008
North American hedge funds and asset managers will spend $253 million on low-latency options infrastructures in 2008 and this is set to rise to $305 million in 2011, a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of six per cent, according to Tabb Group.
16 October 2008
Wall Street Systems has launched a "pay as you go" post-trade processing utility for FX cash, FX derivatives, money markets, vanilla interest rate derivatives, and listed futures and options.
15 October 2008
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the UK's Financial Services Authority (FSA) will head up a task force - established by the technical committee of the International Organisation of Securities Commission (IOSCO) - that will examine regulation of the commodities markets.
02 October 2008
Bank of China International (BOCI) has signed for Massachusetts-based Progress Software's algorithmic trading platform, Apama.
08 September 2008
Transatlantic exchange Nyse Euronext is to launch a new US futures exchange in September after the Commodity and Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) approved its application to become a designated contract market (DCM).
22 August 2008
Nyse Euronext has won a deal to supply an options trading system, based on its Liffe Connect platform, to the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE).
28 April 2008
London-based derivatives exchange Liffe has confirmed plans to establish its own clearing house and says it will renegotiate contract terms with its current supplier LCH.Clearnet.
26 March 2008
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