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Buy side should double down on scaling R&D investments
June 17th, 2015
To address declining return on investment, buy side needs to speed up the process of testing and disqualifying unworkable strategies, while allowing more resources to be invested in benchmarking and scaling up the most promising systems, according to a ...
China Shares Fall as Startup Shares Get Pricey
June 16th, 2015
Stocks in Asia mostly fell Tuesday, with China leading the decline, as investors there sell shares in highflying startup stocks that have gotten expensive. The Shanghai Composite Index was down 0.9% at 5019.42 following a 2% drop Monday, while ...
HSBC to Sell Units in Brazil and Turkey and Shrink Investment Bank
June 9th, 2015
HSBC will take an axe to its investment bank and seek to cut up to $5 billion in costs in an effort to improve its sluggish performance, Europe’s biggest bank said on Tuesday. The announcement to the Hong Kong ...
ICE Trade Vault Europe Approved by ESMA as Trade Repository for FX Derivatives
June 5th, 2015
Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE: ICE), the leading global network of exchanges and clearing houses, announced today that the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) approved ICE Trade Vault Europe Limited (ICE Trade Vault Europe) to extend its Trade Repository registration ...
World Stock Exchanges announce trading volumes for May 2015
June 3rd, 2015
Moscow Exchange Moscow Exchange announces trading volumes for May 2015. The Derivatives Market and FX Market posted the strongest growth, with volumes increasing 33% and 27% YoY, respectively. Secondary market turnover in bonds increased 12%. Equity & Bond Market Secondary market ...
2007 All Over Again? Mega-Merger Edition
June 2nd, 2015
Intel is buying chip maker Altera. Charter is buying Time Warner Cable. All the big drug makers are buying all the mediums-sized ones. Great news, right? If these huge companies with their top-of-the-line analytical tools and deep insight into ...
Hotspot Introduces Market-Leading Standards for Liquidity Providers
May 29th, 2015
New Standards for Market Makers Designed to Provide Enhanced Transparency to the Global Electronic FX Market Hotspot, a leading institutional foreign exchange (FX) market owned and operated by BATS Global Markets (BATS), today announced new standards for Hotspot liquidity ...
FBN Securities Goes Live on SS&C’s MarketTrader
May 29th, 2015
SS&C’s institutional broker-dealer order management system positions FBN for growth SS&C Technologies Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq:SSNC), a global provider of financial services software and software-enabled services, today announced FBN Securities (FBN) selected SS&C MarketTrader™ as its Order Management System (OMS). ...
China to Ease Limits on Overseas Investments
May 29th, 2015
Beijing advances goal to make yuan a reserve currency with plan to ease capital controls China’s campaign to turn the tightly controlled yuan into a global currency is crossing a new threshold, as the government plans to make it ...
Growing financial risk appetite within a gradual economic recovery – Financial Stability Review
May 28th, 2015
Euro area systemic stress remained low in past six months amid improving, but still subdued, economic growth Financial markets show continued asset price rises and bouts of volatility, but without generalised overvaluations Challenging operating environment for euro area banks ...
