Wednesday, 22 July 2026
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This product expansion includes an extensive library of both liquid and less liquid, hard-to-value instruments across sovereigns, investment grade and high yield corporates, emerging markets, money market, U.S. municipa…
Vehicles run at the Central Business District in Chaoyang District in Beijing, capital of China, June 6, 2022. (Xinhua/Ju Huanzong)
Single Dealer Platforms (SDPs) are an alternative source of liquidity for execution algorithms, alongside exchanges and ATSs, and are quite popular because they offer liquidity at no commission to brokers. But the way S…
As the crypto market has continued its volatile ride over the past year, most market participants would agree that regulators needed to step in and tame what has been – and in many cases still is – the Wild West of cryp…
London Stock Exchange Group plc today provided a trading update for the first quarter of 2022.
The proposal, made by US regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), is to amend Rule 3b-16 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (Exchange Act), which “defines certain terms used in the statutory defini…
Since the Great Recession cross-border financial assets have grown nearly 60 percent. While cross-border bank lending has stayed relatively constant, cross-border portfolios and market-based finance have grown tremendou…
The landscape for wholesale gold trading is quite complex and constantly evolving. The three most important gold trading centres are the London OTC market, the US futures market and the Shanghai Gold Exchange (SGE). The…
One of the world's top nickel producers faces massive losses on its short positions after prices soared over $100,000 per tonne last week and forced the London Metal Exchange to halt nickel trading.
It was the mid-1990s, and, in lower Manhattan, a digital usurping was afoot. Computers had become integral to the workflows of technology-savvy traders and investors by then. But the broader financial industry was final…
Citigroup wealth management has launched a Digital Assets Group to capitalise on the demand for digital assets.
ON JANUARY 7TH nine of America’s largest brokers and banks said they planned to launch a new equities exchange, dubbed the Members Exchange (MEMX). Though it has yet to gain approval from the Securities and Exchange Com…
- Transaction is another step in Cboe's strategy to build one of the world's largest global derivatives and securities trading networks
Tradefeedr has launched a foreign exchange trading database platform that aims to connect the buy-side with brokers and banks to analyse execution analytics.
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Wall Street may have re-entered bull market-territory, but increasing stock prices are not doing anything to revive investor interest in taking cryptocurrency companies public through special-purpose acquisition compani…
Doug Atkin and Bernie Madoff were engaged in a screaming match as two senior officials watched in wonder at the Washington, D.C., office of the Securities and Exchange Commission. On this day in 1991, the future Ponzi s…
JPMorgan Chase is taking a stake in a private stock trading platform with links to Palantir to boost the bank's efforts to connect buyers and sellers of hot pre-IPO company shares, CNBC has learned.
Amsterdam surpassed London as Europe’s largest share trading centre last month as the Netherlands scooped up business lost by the UK since Brexit.
When most people hear the name “Nasdaq,” they think of the world’s premier venue for buying and selling tech stocks. The Nasdaq exchange is where the cool kids of Silicon Valley and other points West––from Jeff Bezos to…
The U.S. equity market is the largest and most liquid stock market in the world (Chart 1).
In the past we’ve talked theoretically about the costs of routing to inverted vs. maker-taker venues.
Data distributor Exchange Data International (EDI) has urged regulators in the US to investigate derivatives exchange CME Group’s proposed changes to its data fee policies.
As trading platforms proliferate, investors’ search for the best available prices has grown more complex. Now, a new study shows that the scale and liquidity of NYSE’s equity exchanges underpin a data feed that outperfo…