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Turquoise, het Europese handelsplatform dat concurreert met klassieke beurzen, staat te koop. Het handelssysteem van een groep zakenbanken worstelt met toenemende concurrentie in een krimpende markt, meldt het persbureau Bloomberg. Turquoise vroeg de Zwitserse bank UBS om kandidaat-kopers te zoek... [More]

Project Turquoise, an alternative European cash equities trading platform established by a group of big investment banks, will go live on August 18, a senior Turquoise executive said on Wednesday. Backed by Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, UBS, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, ... [More]

The world economy has been hit by a severe financial crisis, resulting in the worst global economic downturn for over 60 years. Triggered by difficulties in the US housing market that
exposed the way that banks and other lenders had been underestimating real risks for too long, the crisis spread so quickly throughout global financial markets that banking systems around the world were severely destabilised. As a result, the impact has spread beyond the financial system,hitting economic growth, prosperity and jobs throughout the world. [More]

The pan-European multilateral trading facility (MTF) launches its Chi-Vision smart liquidity consolidation service and confirmed Instinet Europe as the first client. Pan-European multilateral trading facility (MTF) Chi-X has launched smart liquidity consolidation service Chi-Vision, and has confir... [More]

FPL would like to thank both Altova and NoMagic for kindly contributing complementary licenses of their design tools which will enable FPL to focus on its core business of creating industry standards and will support technical efforts by further automating the maintenance of FIX messaging standards

“But there are several aspects of the quantitative approach to finance, and no single one of these aspects, taken by itself, should be confounded with financial econometrics. Thus, financial econometrics is by no means the same as finance statistics. Nor is it identical with what we call gen... [More]

AMSTERDAM (AFN) -  De Nederlandse Staat kan doorgaan met de ontmanteling van Fortis in Nederland. De rechtbank in Amsterdam heeft deze week een streep gehaald door een poging van de Stichting FortisEffect om de verkoop van Nederlandse Fortis-onderdelen te verbieden. FortisEffect wilde d... [More]

How do you get to be a computer programmer/algorithmic trading type at Goldman? The CV of Serge Aleynikov may have the answer. To recap, Aleynikov is at the centre of a scandal involving the alleged pilfering of Goldman’s top secret algorithmic trading codes. He was arrested on July 3rd, but ... [More]

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In the ultra-geek world of machine-to-machine trading, the New York Stock Exchange is now measuring some of its processes in nanoseconds, or one billionth of a second. The traders’ requirement for speed isn’t new of course. But the absolute numbers and measurement of the mos... [More]