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Complex event processing provider StreamBase has struck a partnership with trading technology firm Peresys to facilitate electronic access to Africa.

The European commissioner for internal markets and services, Michel Barnier, has said that the review of MiFID currently being undertaken by the European Commission will re-examine pre-trade transparency rules for dark pools.

Mexican broker Casa de Bolsa Finamex has selected the SunGard Global Network (SGN) for Securities to expand its reach in the global trading community.

The Singapore Exchange has expanded its AsiaClear business with the launch of a new clearing service for OTC traded financial derivatives.

Trading technology provider Advent has added a new portfolio drift function to its latest order management system, designed to alert investors when changes to a portfolio fall out of line with investment objectives.

US-based agency broker Lime Brokerage has launched high-speed options execution capabilities, with 'through-box' latency in the low double-digit microseconds.

Global exchange group Nasdaq OMX is launching a new price-size priority equity trading platform in the US designed to encourage more trading in larger size.

A reduction in trading volumes is likely to slim broker lists among buy-side institutions, but could this be accompanied by consolidation and rationalisation on the sell-side?

The Association for Financial Markets in Europe has appointed Simon Lewis as chief executive, replacing Jonathan Taylor, who left the post in January 2010.

The Tokyo Stock Exchange plans to rebuild its Japanese futures trading market to pre-crisis levels with a new futures trading platform from NYSE Technologies, the IT arm of exchange group NYSE Euronext.