Regions

US agency broker and trading technology provider Bloomberg Tradebook has launched an electronic request for quotes (RFQ) service for US equity options.

US institutional broker Concept Capital has hired Rich Parker, former head of sales and trading at policy analysis firm Washington Research Group (WRG), as its head of equities.

US derivatives exchange operator CME Group has implemented CorvilNet, a latency management system from technology provider Corvil.

NEURO Dark, the new dark pool from pan-European MTF Nasdaq OMX Europe, may become the first equities trading venue to use a consolidated European best bid and offer as a reference price rather than a primary exchange price benchmark.

Nasdaq OMX Europe, the multilateral trading facility (MTF) owned by exchange group Nasdaq OMX, is planning to launch a pan-European dark pool, called NEURO Dark, on 27 April.

Fixnetix, a market data, trading and exchange hosting services provider, will provide a direct market data feed from NYSE Arca Europe, NYSE Euronext’s new pan-European multilateral trading facility (MTF), to its clients.

The London Stock Exchange (LSE) has delayed the introduction of non-displayed order types to its SETS electronic order book.

ITG, an agency brokerage and financial software firm, has adapted its single-stock arrival price benchmark algorithm, Active, for the Asia-Pacific region.

Lee Hodgkinson, head of London-based stock exchange SWX Europe, will become CEO of SmartPool, the non-displayed multilateral trading facility set up by exchange group NYSE Euronext, on 1 May.

US equities trading platform Direct Edge achieved a matched market share of 10.10% on 11 March, pushing it above the 10% mark for the first time. The firm’s previous one-day matched market share record, achieved on 2 March, was 9.18%.