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Two of Europe's largest broker-operated dark pools have reported their trading volumes for the third quarter of 2010.

A new pan-European equities matching and central counterparty clearing service for hedge fund transactions will streamline process flows and mitigate counterparty risks, according to post-trade processing firm Omgeo and clearing house EuroCCP.

Asian trading venue the Singapore Stock Exchange is consulting market participants on a proposal to introduce continuous all-day trading on its securities market.

Danske Bank and Swedbank have unveiled enhancements to their electronic trading capabilities, reflecting increased competition for algorithmic trading flow in the Nordic region.

Swiss clearer SIX x-clear has agreed to supply central clearing services for all trades conducted on the new dark multilateral trading facility for European stocks, operated by Swiss investment bank UBS.

The London Stock Exchange has opened up its exchange hosting facility to vendors and service providers to offer its members a wider range of low-latency services.

Market centre operator BATS Global Markets has launched its second US equities exchange, BYX, which will offer members a rebate for removing liquidity.

A total shutdown across the NYSE Euronext's European markets toward the end of trading on Wednesday 13 October marked the second incident in three days where trading did or did not stop as intended on exchanges managed by the global exchanges operator.

Lime Brokerage, the US-based high-speed connectivity specialist, has confirmed that CEO Jeff Wecker has left the firm “to pursue other interests”.

US-based trade venue Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) has stated that its new all-electronic exchange, C2 Options Exchange, will open on Friday, 29 October 2010.