As the race to zero latency hots up across the Atlantic Ocean, some market participants believe this scramble to be a futile, and costly, process—as other, newer, technologies begin to appear on the trading scene...

The Spanish stock exchange is the latest European bourse to open up its data center to third-party co-location service providers in a bid to attract more high-frequency traders and shore up falling volumes...

New regulations require firms to sift enormous quantities of data...

The broker-dealer arm of Getco, the global electronic trading and market-making firm, is opening up its European dark pool to more market participants in what it says is a “unique opportunity”...

The fixed income market may never be as electronic as the equity market, but bonds are headed in that direction thanks partly to Dodd-Frank and technological advances...

Cloud infrastructure and hosting firm Savvis is opening a new data center in London’s Docklands, adding much-needed extra low latency trading capacity to the UK’s capital...

Firms are being warned that their legacy surveillance systems will not be able to cope with the avalanche of new regulations set to descend on Europe...

Nine of Europe’s larger central securities depositories (CSDs), including Deutsche Börse’s Clearstream Banking, have now signed up to the European Central Bank’s (ECB) long-running Target2Securities (T2S) scheme, which is intended to streamline settlement across the region—but 22 have still to commit as the final deadline approaches...

Broker-dealers are struggling to retain control of advisors who are increasingly empowered to make their own decisions and trade securities in client portfolios, following a trend towards fee-based relationships and away from brokerage or commission-based relationships...

Two years on from the May 2010 ‘flash crash’ on Wall Street, in which high-frequency traders were blamed for exacerbating the situation, and politicians and regulators across the pond in Europe are continuing to grapple with ways to curtail the practice...

Following Francois Hollande’s recent presidential victory in France, it appears that there is a groundswell of support building from some European policymakers to re-assert plans for a continent-wide financial transaction tax...

The US options-exchange landscape, already plenty crowded, may expand by one-third by the end of the year...

The global exchange operator will continue focusing on growing its ancillary business operations, including its technology and services businesses...

High-frequency traders are making a push into one of the last bastion’s of traditional trading, the London Metal Exchange (LME), which maintains Europe’s last open outcry trading pit...

If everyone had it their way, every tradable asset class would be available at click of a mouse...

Communications provider BT has selected Equinix, the global data center operator, to roll out its cloud-based suite of services, which provide low latency proximity hosting for traders worldwide...

Six Financial Information, formerly Six Telekurs, continues to overhaul its data service provision as it looks to make better sense of the ever growing financial information that is churned out by global markets...

Clearing organizations are rolling out portfolio margining services that enable clearing firms and their customers to reduce the collateral they are required to maintain against open positions, paving the way for capital efficiencies...

Nordic Growth Market (NGM), a Swedish exchange, is expanding its reach to a wider trading community after signing deals with both TMX Atrium and Neonet...