Europe

Swedish trading systems provider Tbricks has increased the number of trading venues it connects to with the addition of Xetra, Deutsche Börse’s fully electronic trading platform.

Pan-European multilateral trading facility (MTF) Turquoise has named the first six brokers that will participate in its dark liquidity aggregation scheme, to be launched in July.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch has been approved as a remote member of the Warsaw Stock Exchange by the exchange’s management board.

The Financial Services Authority has confirmed that its disclosure regime for significant net short positions in UK financial sector stocks is being extended indefinitely.

Chi-X Europe and Turquoise, two rival pan-European multilateral trading facilities (MTFs), have announced plans to extend their trading hours for Spanish stocks.

The London Stock Exchange Group’s decision to cut roughly 120 jobs stems from new CEO Xavier Rolet’s desire to streamline operations, the exchange said.

Quote MTF, a multilateral trading facility (MTF) based in Hungary, has become the newest member of an industry working group to develop common symbology for European equities.

Nasdaq OMX Europe, the multilateral trading facility (MTF) owned by global exchange group Nasdaq OMX, will start trading Portuguese listed stocks on the same day as rival MTF Chi-X Europe.

Deutsche Börse Market Data & Analytics, the information division of German exchange group Deutsche Börse, has launched CEF alpha+ macro, a data feed that supplies macro-economic news directly to automated trading applications.

Pan-European dark pool NYFIX Euro Millennium has reported that average daily traded value on its platform increased 70% to almost €82 million in May 2009 from around €48 million in December 2008.