After completing a key rollout phase last week, NYSE Group officials report that they are continuing to test a new transaction processing system intended to streamline access to equities and options markets. Officials alerted traders about the NYSE Pillar system and its symbol migration steps this past Thursday. “Beginning tomorrow, Friday, February 26, 2016 all… Read More >>
ICE Promotes to Fill Senior Management Posts
ICE Promotes Senior Managers Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (ICE), the operator of clearinghouses, data services and such exchanges as the New York Stock Exchange, reports the following senior management moves: Ben Jackson, president and chief operating officer (COO) of ICE Futures U.S., has been named to the newly created post of ICE chief commercial officer, where… Read More >>
ISC Creates a Map for T+2 Move
The nitty gritty of shorter settlement cycles is getting clearer as the U.S. T+2 International Steering Committee (T+2 ISC) has submitted its Implementation Playbook to the SEC on December 18 and released to the industry on Dec. 21 to provide the industry with a timeline to help them move to a two-day settlement cycle (T+2)… 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 >>
National Stock Exchange Announces Its Resurrection
After closing for 17 months, the National Stock Exchange (NSX) is in the final stages of relaunching a national securities exchange for trading equity securities and exchange-traded fund (ETFs) with a strategy to become “the leader in low-fee market access,” say NSX officials. The low-fee strategy is intended to drive higher levels of activity than… Read More >>
Former PIMCO Investment Exec Launches Consultancy
Maisonneuve Founds Financial Consulting Firm Virginie Maisonneuve, a former chief investment officer for equities at PIMCO, as the Pacific Investment Management Company is known, has founded Maisonneuve Global Advisors (MGA), where she is managing director. Maisonneuve is also a director at London-based Notting Hill Digital, which specializes in advising companies about Internet technologies, and is… Read More >>
ICE to Buy Interactive Data for $5.2 Billion
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the owner of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire market data and systems vendor Interactive Data Corp. for $5.2 billion in the hope that the combined company will be able to offer efficient data access via an integrated platform for analysis, valuation and connectivity… Read More >>
ISDA and ICE Take On Margining for Non-Cleared Derivatives
A key subsidiary of the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the owner of NYSE and other exchanges, has been tapped by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) to help market participants meet new margining rules for non-cleared derivatives through the usage of a crowdsourcing utility. By reaching out in this way, the ICE Benchmark Administration (IBA)… Read More >>
Firms Shrug Off NYSE Trading Halt
Market participants weren’t phased by the widely publicized trading halt last week via the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), according to a recent survey showing that positive perceptions of the soundness of market infrastructure is the highest it’s been since the Flash Crash. The survey, “What Glitch? Market Structure Confidence Highest Since Before Flash Crash,”… Read More >>
Some Upsides from the NYSE Trading Halt
As of this posting, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) has resumed trading in equities and my heart goes out to those working in operations and IT at affected firms. These Ops foot soldiers will have to reconcile, track, record and reconstruct transactions that were caught short by the three-and-a-half hour systems halt on Wednesday,… Read More >>
