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Citi Presses to Bring Back Short Selling Ban November 21, 2008 |

Joseph Marchal Appointed Chi-X Asia-Pac CEO
November 20, 2008 |

Banks back mandatory CDS clearing
November 20, 2008 | Some of the world's top banks are backing a proposal to develop a mandatory central clearing system for the $55 trillion credit default swap (CDS) market, a report in the Financial Times said on Thursday. Dealer banks are stepping up efforts to back CDS clearing to head off a more radical overhaul, which includes a proposal to move trading of over-the-counter CDS on to an exchange, the report said, citing an internal Morgan Stanley email.

Citi to use scalpel not axe in trimming Asia units
November 20, 2008 | Citigroup is scrambling to slash costs in the face of collapsing investor confidence, but the embattled bank is unlikely to retreat from Asia, its strongest performing region.

Wall St bonus outlook dims due Citi, Goldman moves
November 17, 2008 | Wall Street's bonus outlook has worsened because Goldman Sachs top executives are eschewing bonuses this year and Citigroup is laying off 52,000 workers, Gov David Paterson said Monday.

Savvis Expands Global Connectivity Offerings
November 14, 2008 |

Buy Side Reevaluates Counterparty Risk and Reliance on Sell-Side Trading Platforms
November 13, 2008 | With bulge-bracket firms going under, buy-side institutions are scrutinizing their exposure to sell-side execution services and trading platforms.

Goldman Sachs Rolls Out OptimIS, New Implementation Shortfall Algorithm
November 12, 2008 | Determines whether to 'make or take' liquidity in fast moving markets.


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Eze Castle Integration Launches Eze Link Converged Communications Service for Hedge Funds November 03, 2008
Brokers Hash Out Details of CCA Consortiums to Allay Buy Side Concerns October 29, 2008
Capis’ Morrow Shares His Insight into the Buy Side October 29, 2008
Buy Side Reevaluates Counterparty Risk and Reliance on Sell-Side Trading Platforms October 29, 2008
Instinet Launches Canadian CSA Offering October 27, 2008
Electronic Trading and Risk Will Continue to See IT Spend October 23, 2008
CCAs May Get a Face Lift As Counterparty Risk Looms Large October 21, 2008
BOX Seeks SRO Status with Pending SEC Filing October 21, 2008
Tabb Says of IBanks: New Governance, More Regulation, Potential Custodian Acquisitions, and a New Breed of Smaller IBanks to Emerge. October 15, 2008
Knight Unveils NetDelta Settlement Platform for Credit Derivatives October 14, 2008
Kellner Shares Insight Into His New Instinet Position October 13, 2008
ICE Adds Muscle to CCorp’s Central ClearingHouse for Credit Default Swaps October 13, 2008
NASDAQ’s Greifeld Comments on Short Sale Ban Lift October 09, 2008
Goldman Sees Record Dark Pool Volumes in September October 08, 2008
Kellner Replaces Plunkett As President of Instinet October 06, 2008
New Derivative Clips Tail Risk October 02, 2008
Creditex Rolls out Electronic Auction To Reduce Risk in Credit Default Swaps October 02, 2008
BIDS’ Mahoney Shares Details on Joint NYSE Block Trading Venture (Video) October 02, 2008
Buy Side Order Flow Could Shift Away from Dark Pools September 29, 2008
Short-Selling Ban "Excessive Reaction," Says Former SEC Chair Pitt September 22, 2008
SEC Bans Short Selling on Financial Stocks In Wake of Criticism September 19, 2008
JP Morgan Bans Trading with Citadel September 18, 2008
Trader Reaction: Wall Street Turmoil and CSAs September 17, 2008
More Questions Than Answers as Buy Siders React to Wall Street Turmoil September 16, 2008
Traders Moved Credit Derivatives Positions Ahead of Lehman’s Bankruptcy September 16, 2008
Tora Trading Implements Trading Metrics to Monitor Latency Across DMA Brokers September 14, 2008
Options Exchange Executives Say SEC-CFTC Merger Won’t Happen Soon September 11, 2008
Lehman and Credit Suisse Link Dark Pools September 10, 2008
Industry Reacts to ITG Study Comparing Trading in Dark Pools to Crossing Networks September 08, 2008
Bank of China International Selects Progress Apama for Algo Trading September 08, 2008
Options Trading Volume Dropped 10.5 Percent Over August ’07, Marking First Decline in Five Years September 03, 2008
Rosenthal Collins Group Implements GL Trade for FX Risk September 03, 2008
Consolidated Clearing: Obstacles and Evolution August 27, 2008
The Buy Side Learns to Survive in the Post-Credit Crisis Environment August 25, 2008
Turquoise Trading Update, One Week In August 22, 2008
Muriel Siebert on Wall Street Then and Now: ’1,365 Men and Me’ August 20, 2008
Exclusive: Inside State Street’s FICross August 18, 2008
Muriel Siebert Has a Few Things to Share With Regulators August 14, 2008
Sapient Boosts Derivatives Operations with Acquisition of DCG Consultancy August 11, 2008
UNX to Release New Trading Engine August 11, 2008
End Game: Anti-Gaming Technology in Dark Pools Tops Buy-Side Agenda August 08, 2008
Swift Selected to Develop New Pre-Settlement Matching Platform August 07, 2008
Q&A with ITG’s Tony Huck: Deploying Anti-Gaming Logic in Dark Liquidity Pools August 05, 2008
ITG Buys Merrill’s Stake in BlockAlert July 31, 2008
Soft Dollars: SEC To Issue Final Release Guiding Industry Toward Greater Transparency July 31, 2008
Google Tech Chief Joins Armanta Board July 29, 2008
Former BofA Exec Joins Cuttone & Company July 28, 2008
Weeden & Co. Shifts to FlexOMS for Handling Exponential Volumes July 27, 2008
Carl Carrie Leaves JP Morgan to Pursue Next Venture July 25, 2008
New European Dark Pool for Illiquid Stocks July 23, 2008
Mismi Inc. Develops New ATS with Portfolio-Level Controls July 23, 2008
NYSE Euronext’s Duncan Niederauer: It’s OK to Fail July 23, 2008
Fidelity’s CrossStream Adds UBS, Sigma X to make 28 Connections July 23, 2008
Fidelity Readies to Roll out Options and International Equities Trading July 22, 2008
Miller to Head Up Linedata’s Asian Business July 22, 2008
Baikal Dark Pool Project Could Evolve into a Liquidity Hub July 17, 2008
Duke to Head Up Knight’s European Electronic Sales July 17, 2008
Client Commission Agreements Go Global and Multi-Asset-Class July 16, 2008
Measuring Trader Alpha With TCA June 20, 2008
Instinet Co-CEOs Reflect on Year One and Share What’s Ahead May 20, 2008
ITG Targets Students to Recruit Trading, Technology and Quantitative Talent April 17, 2008
Managing the Desk: Technology Documentation April 15, 2008
The Inside Scoop on Nasdaq’s Options Strategy March 24, 2008
New Electronic Futures Exchange Could Take On Chicago Mercantile Exchange February 20, 2008
The Buy Side Demands More Transparency Into Brokers’ Dark Pool Algorithms February 20, 2008
Brokers Code Dark Pool Routing Into All Algorithmic Trading Strategies February 19, 2008

 

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