Europe Archive

August 04, 2009

Burgundy reports strong Swedish trading in July

Nordic multilateral trading facility (MTF) Burgundy’s market share of trading in Swedish stocks hit a one-day peak of 12.1% in July, the platform’s second month of full operation. read more>

August 03, 2009

Chi-X launches external liquidity provider programme

Pan-European multilateral trading facility Chi-X Europe has launched Chi-Vision, a new routing service aimed at improving the chances of execution by sending orders to external liquidity providers (ELPs) read more>

July 31, 2009

Nasdaq MTF hikes dark fee, cuts LSE routing charge

Nasdaq OMX Europe, the pan-European multilateral trading facility (MTF) owned by exchange group Nasdaq OMX, will increase the fee for trading on its NEURO Dark non-displayed order book to 0.2 basis points from 0.1 bps from 1 September. read more>

July 29, 2009

FESE renews calls for reclassification of broker pools

FESE renews calls for reclassification of broker pools

A row between some of Europe’s biggest exchanges and brokers over how brokers offering internal crossing services are classified under MiFID has been reignited. read more>

July 28, 2009

Baikal adds post-trade functions as rollout continues

Baikal, the London Stock Exchange (LSE)’s pan-European dark pool and liquidity aggregation platform, has started using UnaVista, the LSE’s generic hosted matching, reconciliation and data integration service. read more>

July 27, 2009

Clearers push forward with CDS CCP offerings

There was a flurry of progress in the central clearing of credit default swaps (CDS) at the end of last week, as two firms announced launch dates for their European CDS solutions and one company revealed plans to launch a buy-side-tailored CDS clearing service. read more>

July 27, 2009

Orange hires to boost adoption of trading network

Orange Business Services – Trading Solutions, a provider of electronic and voice trading infrastructure and services, has promoted Nick Brooks to the position of UK networks director to drive the adoption of its new trading network. read more>

July 27, 2009

Execution launches credit trading unit, hires head

London-based agency brokerage Execution has formed a new agency credit division, which will be led by a former Merrill Lynch fixed-income trader. read more>

July 23, 2009

Venues agree on tick sizes for the most liquid UK stocks

The London Stock Exchange and pan-European multilateral trading facilities (MTFs) Chi-X Europe, Nasdaq OMX Europe, BATS Europe and Turquoise have agreed on a list of 12 FTSE 100 stocks that will trade with finer tick sizes on their respective platforms. read more>

July 23, 2009

Euronext shifts data centre to target high-frequency flow

Global exchange group NYSE Euronext plans to move its primary European data centre, which hosts its matching engine, from France to London, UK in a bid to lure more high-frequency business to its European exchanges. read more>