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Nyse Euronext and the London Stock Exchange are battling to become the first bourses to begin offering customers trading in US equities during European hours.
14 April 2010
Nasdaq OMX is to launch a new Nordic Fund Market (NFM) to provide an electronic alternative to manage the transactions between fund distributors and fund management companies.
Rob Flatley, the former head of Autobahn equity at Deutsche Bank, has been named CEO and president of securities data management outfit Netik, ousting long-term CEO and co-founder John Wise and incumbent president Colin Close.
13 April 2010
A coalition of Hollywood players and politicians have joined forces to oppose two new electronic futures exchange for trading movie box office receipt contracts.
08 April 2010
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has fined Credit Suisse, Getco and Instinet a total of £4.2 million for transaction reporting failures.
The US Securities and Exchange Commission is considering the electronic tagging of trades conducted by automated trading shops in an effort to keep tabs on the activities of high-frequency traders.
07 April 2010
SunGard is to integrate complex event processing technology from Streambase into its trading applications, fuelling speculation about the potential for a future tie-up between the two firms.
06 April 2010
Finance firms from Nasdaq OMX to Twitter founder Jack Dorsey's Square have moved to tap the Apple iPad hype with the launch of apps for the new hardware.
Massimo Capuano, deputy CEO at the London Stock Exchange and chief of Borsa Italiana, has quit.
01 April 2010
Chip giant Intel has begun hawking its new Xeon processor 5600 and 7500 series' to the financial services community, boasting of benefits in risk management, latency and data and order throughput.
Australia's government has given in-principle approval for Chi-X to launch a trading platform in the country, finally busting the monopoly long enjoyed by the ASX.
31 March 2010
After last year's failed effort to sell off a majority stake, the Warsaw Stock Exchange has changed tack, asking the world's major bourses to bid for a contract to modernise its trading platform and form an alliance.
30 March 2010
European clearing house LCH.Clearnet has launched a clearing service for credit default swaps with the support of four leading French dealers.
29 March 2010
Former Turquoise chief information officer Yann L'Huillier has taken up the same role at Swiss broker Compagnie Financière Tradition.
25 March 2010
FIX Protocol Limited (FPL) has launched an industry standards-based messaging language for algorithmic trading strategies.
Deutsche Börse has outlined plans to axe and relocate jobs and bring IT services in-house as part of a cost cutting programme designed to save EUR100 million a year.
24 March 2010
Chi-X Europe has rolled out Thomson Reuters' pan-European low latency direct feed, pricing and reference data service, offered through the firm's hosting centres in London.
22 March 2010
Nyse Euronext is to join with Bloomberg in promoting the market data vendor's open source securities identifier initiative.
18 March 2010
The US Securities and Exchange Commission is to build a new 'state-of-the-art IT Forensics Lab' after admitting that successive technology budget cuts between 2005 and 2007 severely constrained its ability to effectively police the markets.
The post-MiFID fragmentation of exchange trading and data has substantially increased the potential for market abuses, according to a new advisory group set up to look at the issue.
16 March 2010
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