Institutional agency-only broker Instinet, LLC has been censured and fined a total of $1.575 million for alleged violations of various provisions of the market access rule (15c3-5 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934), and related exchange supervisory rules. Instinet, founded in 1969, is a Nomura company. Nomura describes itself as an “Asia-headquartered financial services… Read More >>
ICE Agrees to Sell Trayport to TMX Group
ICE to Get Cash & Some TMX Group Assets The Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), which owns the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), is selling a Trayport, a vendor of pre-trade energy solutions for traders, brokers and exchanges, to the TMX Group, parent company of the Toronto Stock Exchange, in exchange for certain TMX Group assets and… Read More >>
ICE Expands Reach of NYSE Trading Floor
The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is expanding its floor-based transaction operations so that by the end of this year the venue will trade 8,600 U.S. listed securities — including exchange traded products (ETFs) — facilitated by the migration to an integrated trading technology platform NYSE Pillar. The expansion plans of NYSE, which is owned… Read More >>
Thomson Reuters Targets Buy Side via REDI Acquisition
Market data, trading systems and news giant Thomson Reuters has acquired REDI Holdings, whose REDIPlus execution management system (EMS) will become part of the vendor’s suite of data and trading offerings, intended to attract more buy-side firms. The REDI acquisition will help Thomson Reuters provide an integrated workflow solution to the buy-side trading community, officials… Read More >>
ICE Clear Credit Hits $1B Mark for Single CDS
The Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), owner of the New York Stock Exchange, other exchanges and clearinghouses, announced that ICE Clear Credit has surpassed $100 billion year to date in gross notional cleared for client accounts for single name credit default swaps (CDS), officials say. This marks a 200 percent increase over 2015. The ICE Clear Credit… Read More >>
NYSE, Nasdaq & Bats Join Forces on Volatility Rules
Bats Global Markets (Bats), the Nasdaq Stock Market and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), a subsidiary of Intercontinental Exchange, have been working together for about a year on a way to harmonize key functions of U.S equity markets to “increase resiliency during times of extreme volatility,” confirm officials from all three exchanges. “In the… Read More >>
U.S. Fights Back Against Iranian Hackers
The threat of cyberattacks was prominent again in the news last week as the Department of Justice via the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York unsealed grand jury indictments against seven hackers based in Iran charged with running coordinated cyber-attacks on U.S. financial services firms and securities exchanges. In fact, Justice… Read More >>
CME May Spur Bidding War for the LSE
There is a sense of déjà vu in the air with talk of a $28 billion merger between Deutsche Börse and the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG). The two have been circling around each other for years but as in the past, rival exchanges may try and break the bond. This time around the Intercontinental… Read More >>
ICE Mulls Move to Buy London Stock Exchange
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) officials are acknowledging “recent press speculation” that they may put forth an offer to buy the LSEG, which has gone public with its potential merger of two equals with Deutsche Börse. As outlined by LSEG and Deutsche Börse officials, the potential merger would be “structured as an all-share merger of equals under… Read More >>
EBS Direct Uses FIX 4.4 for Application Links
EBS Direct to Use FIX 4.4 API EBS BrokerTec, the electronic foreign exchange (FX) and fixed income business group of interdealer broker ICAP, reports that end-users can connect to its FX platform — EBS Direct via a FIX version 4.4 application programming interface (API). The Financial Information eXchange (FIX) protocol for electronic trading is overseen… Read More >>
