Equities Archive

Global investment bank Citi has appointed an ex-Goldman Sachs trader to its central and eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa (CEEMEA) trading team. read more>

Agency broker Instinet has launched Meet the Street, a corporate access offering for the US market that aims to match corporate management teams with interested buy-side investors though a web-based service. read more>

Japan-based investment bank Nomura has promoted two of its senior executives, both former Lehman Brothers bankers, to lead its equities business in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. read more>

BATS Europe, the multilateral trading facility (MTF) owned by US exchange group BATS Global Markets, plans to extend its after hours trading service to include German and French stocks from the middle of next month. read more>

UK exchange operator PLUS Markets has launched an “in-depth” strategic review of its business, which may include a shift to electronic trading, after making a loss of £8.3 million for the year ended 31 December 2009. read more>

Japanese investment bank Nomura has made several hires to its US-based global portfolio trading team, including two former Merrill Lynch directors. read more>

Nasdaq OMX Europe, the pan-European multilateral trading facility owned by exchange group Nasdaq OMX, will start trading shares listed on the Budapest and Prague stock exchanges from 16 April. read more>

The London Stock Exchange (LSE) has reported that the amount of money it makes from UK cash equities trading has dropped since the introduction of a new tariff structure in September last year. read more>

Investment bank Deutsche Bank’s Autobahn Equity electronic trading business has launched Super X, a dark liquidity-seeking algorithm, in the US and Europe. read more>

Global banking group Citi has launched a version of its Citi Match internal crossing engine in Japan. The firm already operates Citi Match in the US, Europe, Hong Kong and Australia. read more>