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Bats Chi-X Europe Reports Strong Market Share In July 2015
September 7th, 2015
Market share rises year-on-year in 12 of the 15 markets in which the exchange operates BATS Chi-X Europe today reported July data and highlights, including pan-European market share of 23.4%. The exchange, which is Europe’s largest destination for equities ...
European stocks suffer as China outlook continues to worsen
September 1st, 2015
More than £30bn was wiped off FTSE 100-listed stocks this morning, after new economic data from China reduced hopes of a recovery from last week’s market turmoil. The FTSE dipped below 6,100 points in mid-morning trading, 2.4 per cent ...
Global 100 firms expand in Europe as Hill Dickinson hires a captain
September 1st, 2015
Last week saw Global 100 firms building their presence in Europe, with White & Case bolstering its private equity (PE) practice and Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton expanding its competition offering in Brussels. Meanwhile Hill Dickinson hired two partners for its ...
Further evidence that new rules could threaten market liquidity in Europe
August 26th, 2015
A preliminary research report by three professors at the Toulouse School of Economics has raised concerns over the impact impending regulations could have on market liquidity. The researchers used data from Euronext to investigate the behaviour of liquidity suppliers during the ...
European Banks to Sell a Record $154 Billion of Loans, PwC Says
August 20th, 2015
European banks are set to divest a record 139 billion euros ($154 billion) of loans this year, led by the U.K., as the industry accelerates asset sales to meet new rules, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. Banks have offloaded 54.5 ...
Europe: When the Macro Overshadows the Micro
August 17th, 2015
Christian Thimann currently works with the French investment bank AXA while also holding an academic position at the Paris School of Economics. However, from 2008 to 2013 he was Director General and Adviser to the President at the European ...
EBS BrokerTec launches BrokerTec European Government Bonds data product
August 13th, 2015
EBS BrokerTec, ICAP’s market-leading electronic foreign exchange (FX) and fixed income business, announces today that it has launched the BrokerTec European Government Bonds premium pricing data product, distributed by ICAP Information Services, the information division of ICAP. The product ...
Mobile payments trend is getting bigger: MasterCard to connect Europe to Samsung Pay
July 30th, 2015
Samsung has struck a deal with MasterCard to connect European card issuers to the handset manufacturer’s forthcoming mobile payments service. Under the agreement, European banks will be able to connect to the MasterCard Digital Enablement Service platform and activate ...
Tradeweb Awarded European Central Bank Electronic Trading Platform Contracts
July 23rd, 2015
Tradeweb Markets, the leading global marketplace for electronic fixed income, derivatives and ETF trading, announced it has been awarded two contracts to supply its electronic trading platform (ETP) to the European Central Bank (ECB). The contracts cover the provision ...
The Euro is Destroying the European Movement
July 23rd, 2015
“Terrorists”, “blackmail”, “lack of trust” are just some of the terms voiced during the recent negotiations between Greece and its Eurogroup partners during the recent Greek negotiations. There were even suggestions that Greece should leave the common currency altogether. ...
