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Icap has moved to appease dissident shareholders looking to derail its acquisition of Plus Stock Exchange by raising the purchase price to £500,000 from £1.
14 June 2012
Dissident shareholders of Plus Markets Group have tabled a resolution to oust the chairman and chief executive over their proposals to sell the small cap exchange business to Icap for £1.
07 June 2012
Australia's ANZ has inked a software testing outsourcing contract with Capgemini that will see 360 of the bank's IT staff move to the French vendor.
06 June 2012
Plus Markets has turned down a rival bid for small cap exchange Plus SX from Gulf Merchant Bank in favour of an agreed £1 cash offer from interdealer broker Icap.
01 June 2012
Anglo-Dutch IT services giant Logica has agreed to be acquired by Canada's CGI Group in a £1.7 billion cash deal.
31 May 2012
Bloomberg has acquired Dublin-based software provider PolarLake and revealed plans to launch its own enterprise data management (EDM) service. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
22 May 2012
IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) and Hong Kong Exchange and Clearing (HKEx) are set to go head-to-head in the race to acquire the London Metal Exchange (LME) after the Chicago Mercantile Exchange followed Nyse Euronext in being eliminated from the bidding for the 140-year old metals market.
Nomura has sold its Swedish technology outpost to local trading IT supplier Cinnober.
21 May 2012
Intedealer broker Icap has agreed to acquire loss-making Plus Stock Exchange, the smaller company equity exchange, for £1 in cash.
18 May 2012
Calypso and Cinnober will go head-to-head in a battle to win the contract to build a new clearing house for the London Metal Exchange.
17 May 2012
Icap is in talks with Plus Markets Group to acquire the distressed small cap market's equities exchange business "for a nominal sum".
Financial information vendor Markit has agreed to buy enterprise data management (EDM) specialist Cadis. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
09 May 2012
Nasdaq OMX Group has agreed to acquire BWise, an enterprise governance, risk management and compliance (GRC) software vendor. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
03 May 2012
European clearing house LCH.Clearnet has confirmed that it is in discussions to acquire International Derivatives Clearing Group (IDCG) from Nasdaq OMX as it bids to grow its interest rate swaps business in the US.
24 April 2012
UK exchange operator Plus Markets says it has had "a number of indicative proposals" since putting itself up for sale in February.
17 April 2012
Intuit has acquired Boston-based mobile commerce company AisleBuyer in a deal reported to be worth up to $100 million.
11 April 2012
McGraw-Hill unit S&P Capital IQ has acquired market data and trading technology vendor Quanthouse. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
03 April 2012
Google has acquired payments technology company TxVia for an undisclosed fee as it scrambles to give its Wallet service a much-needed shot in the arm. Meanwhile, the firm has lost Wallet co-founder Rob von Behren to rival Square.
CVC Capital Partners and ValueAct Capital have withdrawn from the race to take over Misys, leaving Vista Equity Partners as the sole surviving bidder for the UK-based banking software house.
02 April 2012
The Tokyo and London stock exchanges are bailing out on their joint venture market for growing companies in Japan, with the TSE agreeing to buy out its former partner.
27 March 2012
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