1502 Results from 2008
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A fraudster managed to con high street bank Barclays out of £10,000 in a credit card scam by posing as its high-profile chairman Marcus Agius.
10 January 2008
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Nyse Euronext is in talks to buy the American Stock Exchange (Amex) in a deal that could be worth around $350 million, according to a Wall Street Journal (WSJ) report.
/regulation
A group of 13 banks and trading firms has taken a minority equity stake in Instinet's MiFID-compliant alternative trading facility, Chi-X Europe.
Paris-listed Atos Origin has won a five-year contract, worth £50 million, to provide outsourced technology services to French banking group BNP Paribas.
09 January 2008
The European Central Bank has won an appeal in a French court against Document Security Systems (DSS), the New York-based provider of anti-counterfeit software that filed a patent infringement lawsuit against the central bank in 2005.
California-based mobile payments start-up Obopay has struck deals with six banks and three telcos in India ahead of the launch of its mobile debit service in the country in February, according to local press reports.
Troubled online brokerage E*Trade is disposing of its US institutional sales unit amid concerns that it needs additional capital to stay in business. The news comes after the broker's share price fell to an all-time low following a scathing report from a credit ratings agency.
Specialist investment management consulting firm Citisoft has appointed Omgeo executive Christopher Russo as a managing director.
08 January 2008
Swedish technology group and exchange operator OMX has won a deal to provide a hosted trading system to Agora-X, a new US marketplace for over-the-counter (OTC) commodity contracts.
MasterCard Europe and EuroPay have signed an agreement to integrate their respective operating structures in France and establish a new company that will provide electronic payments services to financial institutions across the country.
A further two banks - JPMorgan and Deutsche Bank - have made investments in Bats Trading, the electronic alternative to Nasdaq and Nyse. Financial terms of the minority investments were not disclosed.
SunGard says Pakistan-based Dawood Islamic Bank (DIBL) is using its System Access Customer Service Manager package to provide Shariah-compliant Internet banking services to retail and corporate customers.
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