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Content tagged with Exchanges posted in February 2000
Irish Stock Exchange and Deutsche Borse Agree on Technology Partnership
News  |  2/23/2000  | 
The Irish Stock Exchange (ISE), in an effort to attract more foreign members and make its stocks more visible, has signed a letter of intent to trade all of its products on the Deutsche Borse’s (DB’s) Xetra trading platform.
NYMEX Eyes Acquisition of BrentBroker.com
News  |  2/23/2000  | 
The New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) is evaluating whether it should purchase a stake in BrentBroker.com, a soon-to-be-launched over-the-counter electronic communications network (ECN) covering the energy market.
A Conversation With Harley Lippman
News  |  2/23/2000  | 
This month, WS&T senior editor Robert Sales picked the brain of Harley Lippman, president and chief executive officer of Genesis 10, a software development and technology consulting firm specializing in e-commerce solutions.
BOTCC, Eurex Will Survive CBOT Restructuring
News  |  2/23/2000  | 
In late January, the Chicago Board of Trade’s board approved a demutualization plan that calls for the exchange to separate its open outcry and electronic trading businesses.
BrokerTec Eyes NYMEX, BOTCC for Clearing Services
News  |  2/23/2000  | 
The New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) and the Board of Trade Clearing Corp. (BOTCC) are both in the running to provide clearing services and software to BrokerTec Global LLC.
Talarian and Sound Financial Integrate Products for Distribution Framework
News  |  2/23/2000  | 
Talarian Corp. and Sound Financial Technologies have teamed up to deliver an advanced system for electronic information distribution in the financial services community.
European Energy Community Pays $10.5M to Snag Majority Stake in EEX
News  |  2/23/2000  | 
The board of the Eurex-owned European Energy Exchange EEX has agreed to sell 52% of the soon-to-be-launched electricity market to a plethora of European energy sector companies.
CX Gets Green Light For Block Trading: Empowers Buy-Side Firms
News  |  2/22/2000  | 
In a decision that could heat up the battle for U.S. Treasury futures market share, the Cantor Exchange (CX) last week received permission from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to perform block trades of its long bond and 10-year note futures products. The CFTC’s approval will enable participants in CX’s market to execute trades of 100 or more contracts—for the designated products—directly between each other, providing institutional investment managers with in
Liffe Nears All-Electronic Completion, Moves Forward with CME Alliance
News  |  2/22/2000  | 
The London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange (Liffe) and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) have scheduled March rollouts of two of the strategic initiatives they embarked upon after forming a partnership last summer.
Morgan Stanley and OM Build a New Online European Stock Exchange
News  |  2/14/2000  | 
Targeting retail brokerage firms that want to engage in cross-border trading, Stockholm, Sweden-based OM Group and Morgan Stanley Dean Witter last week teamed up to launch a new online European stock exchange.
Gateway Financial Set to Go Live with FIXChange.net
News  |  2/14/2000  | 
Gateway Financial Solutions is planning to go live on Wednesday with FIXChange.net, a network for connecting buy- and sell-side traders directly to independent floor brokers on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.
DB Ponders Restructuring; Eyes Capital for ECNs and Clearing
News  |  2/14/2000  | 
Pending shareholder approval, the Deutsche Borse (DB) A.G. will restructure its ownership—either via a private placement or an initial public offering—later this year.
CSFB Rolls PrimeTrade FX Module
News  |  2/7/2000  | 
Targeting institutional investors who trade foreign exchange (FX) instruments, Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB) has rolled out a FX module of PrimeTrade—it’s Java-enabled front-end workstation application. Separately, CSFB has developed a PrimeTrade interface to the Austrian derivatives exchange, and is evaluating whether it should expand the front - end to cover options and emerging markets.
NexTrade Anticipates Exchange Status, Strikes Deal with Dreyfus
News  |  2/7/2000  | 
The NexTrade ECN has completed its formal application to become a for-profit stock exchange and is now awaiting final approval from the SEC. The proposed NexTrade Exchange is expecting to be operational by October of 2000, says Mark Yegge, CEO of NexTrade Holdings. In anticipation of gaining exchange status, NexTrade is teaming with BEA systems to build a high-volume stock trading system. NexTrade has also entered into an agreement with Dreyfus Brokerage Services to provide Dreyfus customers wit


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