Wednesday, 22 July 2026
Global markets, trading & world business — for professional traders
With exchanges' physical trading floors empty amid concerns over the spread of the novel coronavirus, some on Wall Street are asking if they should keep their doors closed for good.
As titans gird for battle over institutional crypto trading in Hong Kong, one startup is attempting to break through on the strength of its backers’ expertise, rather than any existing franchise.
According to recent statistics published by Tabb Group, that honor goes largely to the group of four traditional pro rata options exchanges. On average, they bested their newer, time-priority rivals in four categories t…
The 2019 Triennial Survey shows that trade execution has undergone rapid change, with more diverse participants, new technologies and increasing complexity. Electronification advanced the fastest in dealer-to-customer t…
FX markets for the currencies of emerging market economies grew more rapidly than those for major currencies between 2016 and 2019, rising from 19% to almost 25% of global turnover. At the same time, these currencies at…
During a presentation on FX market fragmentation at TradeTech FX 2019 in September, Andrew Hauser, executive director for markets at the Bank of England (BoE), spoke of the merits of responding to the challenge of great…
DETROIT, Oct. 22, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- To date, cryptocurrency exchanges and decentralized financial markets have grown alongside each other with little overlap. That's about to change.
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEX) has made a £32 billion offer to buy the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) in a colossal move to combine two of the largest market infrastructures in the world.
London Stock Exchange Group Plc (LSE) agreed to snap up Refinitiv in a $27 billion blockbuster deal, betting on a future dominated by data.
To nail down terms for the London Stock Exchange's expected $27 billion deal to buy Refinitiv, bankers and lawyers descended on the London office of the global law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer — pulling all-night…
Refinitiv is one of the world's largest providers of financial markets data and infrastructure, serving over 40,000 institutions in over 190 countries. It provides leading data and insights, trading platforms, and open …
Various sell-side institutions have highlighted automation as one of the key drivers of evolution for the fixed income markets.
For all the technology, infrastructure, and resources it takes to run some of the biggest trading markets, exchange operators have still maintained eye-popping profit margins as their revenues continue to grow.
On April 16, 2026, the Division of Corporation Finance (the “Division”) of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) issued an exemptive order that significantly reduces the time certain tender offers for equit…
Great news! A popular Scandinavian exchange – Oslo Stock Exchange (also known as Oslo Børs) is now part of our data offering. The exchange that was founded in 1819 is currently the main trading venue for stocks of the l…
Given that its own shares had fallen nearly 3% that day on the news, Nasdaq’s spokesman, Joe Christinat, was pretty cool when asked to comment on the launch of a new US equities exchange, the Members’ Exchange or MEMX, …
We recently discussed all therouting choicesan algorithm has to make to place an order into the market-picking the right price, time, order type, venue, and order aggression. Today we focus on just one aspect of those c…
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Morgan Stanley (MS.N), Fidelity Investments, Citadel Securities LLC and a host of other financial companies have agreed to jointly launch a new low-cost bourse that will compete with the New York St…
Wall Street broker-dealers have long been frustrated with what they say are over-the-top fees charged by stock exchange giants such as the Nasdaq and New York Stock Exchange.
CME Group has confirmed that it has completed its £3.9 billion acquisition of London-based NEX Group, forming a combined company for futures, cash and OTC markets.
The two largest exchange groups, Cboe and NASDAQ, have captured 73.2% of options volume in 2018, but the three smaller exchange operators have gained market share.NYSEs share is up 2.8%, to 16.5%;MIAX has gained 2.7%, t…
The head of the US derivatives watchdog has put forward plans for a major regulatory reform of cross-border swaps trading, after admitting the regulator’s current approach is over-expansive, complex and impractical.
Citigroup has been fined a total of $10 million by the US financial regulator in two enforcement actions, one of which related to a $81 million loss made by three of its traders.
Thomson Reuters has established a new data agreement with ICAP and Tradeweb, taking on rival Bloomberg’s recent data deal with NEX BrokerTec and Tradition.