Pan-European multilateral trading facility Quote MTF has made two hires for its supervisory board, including a former director of the Hungarian finance regulator, as it seeks to reinforce its compliance team.
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.
The Committee of European Securities Regulators, the body tasked with harmonising regulation across Europe, has set out its plans to reduce the cost and complexity of using post-trade data.
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.
A proposal by US financial regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission to record the trading data of 'large traders' has been described as Orwellian by some commentators.
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.
Nordic-only multilateral trading facility Burgundy is to move its matching engines to Stockholm, in an effort to attract high-frequency flow to the venue.
Market centre operator BATS Global Markets has launched its second US equities exchange, BYX, which will offer members a rebate for removing liquidity.