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Dutch trading firm IMC to pull out of European equities and ETFs
Move is the latest sign that companies are reviewing their equity-trading operations amid low levels of market volatility
High-speed trading film is worth more than a millisecond of your time
Strong performances from Jesse Eisenberg and co lift ‘The Hummingbird Project’
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‘Flash Boys’ exchange IEX plans to exit listing business
Just 3 years ago, IEX announced it was entering the stock-listing business
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NYSE aims to speed up trading with core tech upgrade
The exchange’s technology-overhaul project, called Pillar, has faced difficulties in prior rollouts
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More exchanges defy high-frequency traders with ‘speed bumps’
Over a dozen financial markets are expected to have speed bumps or similar features by 2020
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BGC teams up with trading firms to electronify options market
Fenics Global Options is designed for trades that are bigger than those on Eurex, but smaller than those conducted via traditional voice brokers
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Poor results spark share slide at Dutch ETF house Flow Traders
Shares drop almost 8% after trading firm does worse than analysts were expecting
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High-speed traders Optiver and Virtu back EU trading venue
Dutch trading firm Optiver becomes an investor in German-owned trading venue after signing a liquidity deal last year
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FCA approves LME’s plan to slow down gold traders
London Metal Exchange is looking to implement an eight-millisecond delay on new orders on LMEprecious
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First ‘speed bump’ coming to US futures markets
ICE can introduce three-millisecond pause to help slower-moving firms after CFTC lets the plan proceed
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CFTC concedes defeat in market manipulation battle with big trader
Regulator will not appeal a federal court ruling dismissing a case against Donald Wilson Jr. and his firm DRW
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CFO to depart high-speed trader Tower Research Capital
John Papatsos will leave the company following a transition period
Call for nominations: FN Trading & Technology Awards 2019
The winners of the 17th annual T&T Awards will be revealed at a gala dinner at the V&A Museum in London on June 6
Sun Trading chief leaves in wake of Hudson River takeover
Kevin Cuttica helped the two groups to integrate their businesses
Traders clash at London Metal Exchange over golden speed bump
Superfast trading firms - sometimes known as HFTs - object to plans to hobble their activity on London's new gold-trading hub
High-speed traders back new cryptocurrency market
More established financial firms are looking to capitalise on the growing crypto market
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City heavyweights back Aquis Exchange IPO
Fund managers and an electronic trading firm are among the investors
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European boss quits Sun Trading for new-look broker
Richard McCall's departure from Sun Trading comes after a takeover by Hudson River Trading
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For cryptocurrency traders, it is survival of the quickest
High-speed computer traders are taking advantage of volatility in the market for cryptocurrencies
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Academics blame algo trading for amplifying 2015 Swiss franc jump
FX movements after the currency cap removal were compounded by hands-off trading, according to a new Bank of England paper
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