With the benchmark 10-year U...

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...

Market participants are keen to start trading fixed income instruments electronically, according to Supurna Vedbrat of BlackRock...

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...

With European regulation that will push over-the-counter derivatives trades on to exchanges starting to appear on the horizon, a handful of the region’s leading clearing houses are battling it out to become market leader in one of the three main OTC asset classes—credit default swaps (CDS)...

While Canadian markets continue to splutter amid ongoing European sovereign debt concerns, solid fundamentals are likely to drive any future turnaround...

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...

Falling volumes and extra competition in the exchange space have been mooted as reasons for the winding down of Plus Markets, London’s stock market for small and fledgling companies...

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...

As Europe stumbles from one crisis to another, market participants remain fearful that the region’s debt troubles have yet to fully play out...

Another high-profile dark pool has been forced to close down its alternative trading venue amid lower-than-expected trading activity...

The ascent of the mutual fund industry has provided end-user investors an impressive array of choices that they did not have years ago...

Traders continue to feel out this week's trading in equities, fixed income and other asset classes...

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...

Burgundy, the Nordic multilateral trading facility, has become the latest venue to open up to full interoperability as the ‘vertical silo’ clearing model comes under renewed attack in Europe...

With equity and options trading volume mostly languid this year, exchanges and broker-dealers that rely on order flow are doing what they can to boost their own businesses...

Europe’s main financial services regulator is looking to step up cross-border surveillance methods to better monitor trading strategies that can now stretch across multiple venues and asset classes in a bid to crack down on market abuse and insider trading...

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...

While the global macroeconomic environment continues to bring uncertainty to the marketplace, Allianz’s NFJ Investment Group is building an equity portfolio to combat the volatility...

For the past year, all eyes have been on Europe...

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...

Six Securities Services continues to expand its post-trade business in Europe as it looks to tap into the potential of one of the region’s fastest growing emerging markets...

Like it or not, Facebook is about to make its market debut when it IPOs in the middle of May...

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

The search for yield remains difficult and has become a particularly daunting task for portfolio managers heading in to the month of May...

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...

As the markets become increasingly connected globally, certain asset classes have only just recently caught up to those operating on a macro level...

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

This is the fifth of a six-part series profiling ING Investment Management's bond business...

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...

The dawn of the new age of regulation is upon us and it is truly embodied in both the legalese and spirit of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act...

New equities and options trading venues are about to join the already fragmented U...

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...

The European Securities and Markets Authority (Esma) is facing an alphabet soup of new financial regulations to deal with and market participants are worried that the pan-European regulator will not be able to spend enough time on each one—bringing new dangers to the market...