US equities trading venue Direct Edge will extend the trading hours on its three platforms – EDGA, EDGX and the newly acquired ISE Stock Exchange – in response to international and local client demand.
The value of trades matched on NYFIX Euro Millennium rocketed to more than EUR 1 billion in December from around EUR 178 million in November, following a series of initiatives to boost activity in the European dark crossing network.
The market data policies of Europe’s incumbent exchanges “go against the spirit of MiFID provisions”, according to a letter from Equiduct Trading joint-CEO Artur Fischer sent to the Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR).
Lee Hodgkinson, CEO of UK-based exchange SWX Europe, head of the client and product management division and member of the management committee at SIX Swiss Exchange, SWX’s parent firm, is to leave the organisation at the end of April to pursue a new challenge.
Neonet, an agency brokerage and trading technology provider, is now offering trading access to the Mexican Stock Exchange – the broker's first foray into Latin America.
Three large institutional brokers – Merrill Lynch, JP Morgan Cazenove and BNP Paribas – have joined UK small- and mid-cap stock exchange PLUS Markets and connected to its trading platform.
BATS Europe, the multilateral trading facility that entered the European market in October 2008, has confirmed it will offer sponsored access from 30 January 2009.
NYSE Euronext’s two pending European multilateral trading facilities are on track for their Q1 launches, according to Roland Bellegarde, group executive vice president and head of European execution at NYSE Euronext.
The London Stock Exchange has continued the development of Baikal, its dark pool aggregation service scheduled for launch in Q2 2009, with the hire of a chief operating officer and commercial director