Increased levels of high-frequency trading may have actually dampened volatility in recent weeks rather than exacerbating it, according to market participants.
Tradar, a provider of portfolio management and accounting solutions, has signed buy-side firms Parus Capital in Moscow and Compass Asset Management in Kazakhstan to use its flagship product, Insight.
Pan-European multilateral trading facility Chi-X Europe has become the latest trading venue to announce post-trade interoperability, with four central counterparties supporting the service, including Dutch clearer EMCF which had previously declined to join similar initiatives.
Bonds.com has entered an exclusive agreement under which Red Kite Americas will market the firm's trading system to qualified Latin American institutional investors.
Reforms to the US and European OTC derivatives markets will cause data levels to surge as much as 400% above current levels, forcing market participants to spend US$3.4 billion in 2011 on clearing and back office technology, according to a report by TABB Group.
Transaction cost analysis is on the brink of becoming a credible tool for improving trade performance, after years of being regarded by sceptics as a box-ticking exercise, according to US research consultancy Greenwich Associates.
Huge spikes in volatility in the first two weeks of August led to a decline in the proportion of European trading executed in the dark, according to market data from multilateral trading facility BATS Europe.
BondDesk, a provider of US fixed income trading technology and execution services, has appointed former Bloomberg Tradebook president and CEO Kim Bang as CEO.
Thomson Reuters is to debut an integrated suite of information and trading services for FX trading which leverages the London-based hosting capabilities of the firm's Elektron cross-asset trading platform.