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Ffastfill has posted a pre-tax loss of £107,000 for the first half on flat revenues of £7.3 million. The UK derivatives trading vendor has also agreed to buy the business and assets of Chicago-based WTD Consulting for up to £7.6 million.
22 November 2011
The Tokyo and Osaka stock exchanges have agreed to merge in 2013 as they seek to strengthen their positions in a global market in the midst of a wave of consolidation.
Deutsche Börse and Nyse Euronext are proposing to divest their overlapping equity options business across Europe and open up third party access to Eurex Clearing in an effort to win EU approval for their $9 billion merger deal.
18 November 2011
Visa Europe has taken a minority stake in Beyond Analysis, a UK-based analytics firm, as it looks to gain deeper insight into consumer behaviour from card transaction spending patterns.
15 November 2011
Belgian electronic payments outfit Clear2Pay has inked an agreement to buy UK ATM testing specialist Level Four Software. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
14 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
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
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.
24 October 2011
A group of five financial institutions, including Goldman Sachs and BofA Merrill Lynch, have acquired minority stakes in Chi-X Global, which operates trading platforms in Canada and Japan.
18 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
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
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
ITRS Group, a provider of real-time monitoring systems to the financial services sector, has been acquired by asset manager Carlyle Group in partnership with its founders and management. Financial terms were not disclosed.
The London Metal Exchange (LME) says it has received "several expressions of interest" that could lead to a takeover. CME Group, IntercontinentalExchange and SGX are all said to be in the running.
Thomson Reuters has agreed to sell its trade and risk management technology business to Vista Equity Partners. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
23 September 2011
Finextra caught up with Fundtech CMO George Ravich at the Sibos international banking conference in Toronto and put him on the spot over the vendor's decision to back out of an agreed merger with S1 in favour of a private equity buy-out by GTCR.
21 September 2011
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