NYSE Arca Europe, a pan-European multilateral trading facility (MTF) owned by exchange group NYSE Euronext, has launched a joint marketing initiative with RTS Realtime Systems Group, a trading solutions provider, in an attempt to boost trading on its platform.
BATS Europe, the pan-European multilateral trading facility owned by Kansas-based exchange group BATS Global Markets, hit a new market share record in FTSE 100 stocks on Tuesday.
Markit BOAT, a trade reporting and market data facility for European over-the-counter equity trades, will lower the fee for its pan-European data feed to €40 a month from €120 from 1 January 2010.
The UK’s Financial Services Authority (FSA) has fined Barclays Capital Securities and Barclays Bank £2.45 million for failing to provide accurate transaction reports to the regulator and for “serious weaknesses in systems and controls in relation to transaction reporting”.
PLUS Markets, a UK exchange group specialising in mid- and small-cap trading, has announced that a group of investors from the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) is to invest £5.5 million for a 19% stake in the firm.
Trading technology provider FTEN has agreed to make its risk control and high-frequency execution services available to clients of MarketPrizm, a European trading infrastructure provided by Chi-Tech, the technology division of trading platform operator Chi-X Global.
The Warsaw Stock Exchange has revealed plans to launch WSE CATALYST, a new market for issuing and trading debt securities in Poland, by the end of this month.