Wholesale banking - Announcements, News, Articles & Research: Finextra

BNY Brokerage connects DEx platform to SunGard Transaction Network

BNY Brokerage Inc., a member of BNY Securities Group and subsidiary of The Bank of New York, has linked its DEx (Direct Execution Services) trading platform with the SunGard Transaction Network (STN).

10 January 2005

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Liquidnet to extend European block trading

Liquidnet, the #1 electronic marketplace for block trading, announced today that it has expanded its global pool of natural liquidity to provide trading in five new European equity markets - Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden.

10 January 2005

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Sky Bank to implement S1 Enterprise software for online banking

Sky Bank, the wholly owned subsidiary of Ohio-based Sky Financial Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:SKYF), a diversified financial holding company with $15 billion in assets, has entered into an agreement with S1 Corporation (NASDAQ:SONE) to deploy S1 Business Banking and S1 Corporate Banking.

10 January 2005

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Omicronn to spin off Trax business

Omicronn announced today that, as of 2005, the Trax division of Omicronn will operate as a fully independent company.

10 January 2005

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Coexis appoints ADP's Roy Staines to lead US operations

Coexis, providers of process-oriented and rules-based software across the whole spectrum of commercial banking has announced the appointment of Roy Staines as managing director of US Operations.

10 January 2005

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Code Securities outsources clearing to Penson

Penson Financial Services Ltd., part of the Penson Worldwide Group, a leading provider of execution, clearing, custody and settlement services for the global securities markets, today announced it has been selected as an outsourced clearing partner for institutional broker Code Securities Ltd.

10 January 2005

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RTS names Christian Schild head of global sales

RTS Realtime System Group, announced the appointment of Mr Christian M. Schild (43) as Head of Global Sales within the RTS matrix organization. Schild joined the leading independent software vendor in May 2004.

10 January 2005

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FXall monthly volume breaks $500 billion barrier

FXall, the world's leading online foreign exchange platform, today announced record monthly trading volume of $512 billion in December and record volume for 2004 as a whole.

10 January 2005

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Archipelago hires Fidelity's Matthew Gelber to head new options business

Archipelago Holdings, Inc., operator of the Archipelago Exchange (ArcaEx), the world's first totally open, all-electronic stock exchange, today announced the appointment of former Fidelity Capital Markets Chief Operating Officer Matthew Gelber to the position of Managing Director.

10 January 2005

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E*Trade restructures business into retail and institutional segments

E*TRADE FINANCIAL Corporation (NYSE:ET) today announced an organizational realignment designed to more directly link the Company's business operations with its high growth customer segments.

07 January 2005

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