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My paranoia last month may have been justified. I wrote about the Occupy London protesters wanting to camp out near the London Stock Exchange (LSE) and the cyber-attacks between Israeli and Arab hackers as harbingers of more trouble to come... Read More...

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Feb. 03, 2012

ConvergEx Group, a leading technology company, today announced that RealTick®, its award-winning execution platform, has recently opened an office in Hong Kong to serve as its Asia-Pacific headquarters. The full service office will provide sales, on-boarding and service support for RealTick's customers throughout the region.

Feb. 03, 2012

Fiserv, Inc. (NASDAQ: FISV), a leading global provider of financial services technology solutions, announced today that its ACCEL/Exchange(R) payments network had another record-setting year, processing more than 1.5 billion transactions in 2011, an increase of nearly 29 percent over 2010.  ACCEL/Exchange payments network from Fiserv is one of the fastest-growing payments networks in the industry, supplying the infrastructure for financial institutions to give cardholders around-the-clock access to their demand deposit account funds at ATMs and the point of sale.

Feb. 02, 2012

IntercontinentalExchange, operator of regulated global futures exchanges, clearing houses and over-the-counter (OTC) markets, reported a 6% decline in futures volume and improved revenue capture for January 2012. ICE's average daily volume (ADV) was 1.49 million contracts compared to 1.58 million contracts in the prior January. Total futures volume in January 2012 was 29.8 million contracts.

Feb. 02, 2012

CME Group, the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today announced that January 2012 volume averaged 11.6 million contracts per day, down 5 percent from January 2010, but up 21 percent from December 2011.  Total volume for January was 232 million contracts, of which 82 percent was traded electronically.

Feb. 02, 2012

CME Group Inc. today reported full-year 2011 results, primarily driven by a 10 percent increase in overall average daily volume.  During the year, the company posted annual average daily volume records across the foreign exchange, agricultural commodities, energy and metals product lines.