Clients of Fidessa can now link to Kabu, a Japanese cash equities proprietary trading system (PTS) aimed primarily at retail investors, via the FIX protocol using the technology provider’s connectivity network or trading platform.
Barcelona-based broking house SeBroker has become a member of NYSE Arca Europe, the displayed pan-European multilateral trading facility operated by global exchange group NYSE Euronext.
Pan-European clearing house EuroCCP will implement a new fee schedule for clearing European equity trades from October 1, which will charge high-volume users €0.002 a side and cut fees for all other users.
Scandinavian hedge fund manager Sector Asset Management has implemented AthenaTrader, an execution management system from trading technology provider Aegisoft, for algorithmic trading of foreign exchange.
Banca Akros, the investment and private banking arm of the Banca Popolare di Milano Group, has signed a two-year contract with trading technology provider Orc Software to add support for direct market access (DMA) using the Orc Trading execution platform.
Nasdaq OMX Nordic, operator of stock exchanges in Denmark, Sweden and Finand, has announced the launch of a new portfolio of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that will allow its members to trade internationally-recognised indices in local currency.
Turquoise, a pan-European multilateral trading facility, will start trading depository receipts from October, allowing its members to trade emerging markets securities from its platform.
Technology firm SunGard has agreed to offer customers of its connectivity network access to NYSE Arca Europe, the displayed pan-European multilateral trading facility (MTF) owned by exchange group NYSE Euronext.
NYSE Technologies, the commercial technology unit of exchange group NYSE Euronext, has announced plans to expand its Secure Financial Transaction Infrastructure (SFTI) connectivity network into Asia to improve client links to NYSE Liffe, the group's global derivatives exchange.