Trading ground to a halt on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) for several hours after its electronic trading system was hit by a major technical hitch... more
City folk gave a hesitant thumbs-up to the water industry regulator's new five-year pricing formula which has kept prices flat — but at least one big hitter is cautious about the prospects for utilities next year... more
The London Stock Exchange today publicly censured AIM-listed Environmental Recycling Technologies and said it would have fined it if the company’s finances were not in such a parlous condition... more
If you had suggested, even quite recently, that the London Stock Exchange would one day lose its dominant role as the City’s leading trading platform, everybody would have laughed ... more
The spectre of rising unemployment stalking the City struck at its very heart today as the London Stock Exchange said it is making job cuts, hitting one in eight of its staff, or 133 people ... more
When Xavier Rolet took over from the redoubtable Clara Furse as London Stock Exchange chief executive in late spring, the question most observers expected him to tackle first — apart from the need to take cost out of the organisation — was how to compete with the growing number of alternative trading venues such as Chi-X, Turquoise and BATS ... more
Turquoise, the European share trading system which rivals the London Stock Exchange and was founded by nine investment banks, has been put up for sale ... more
The London Stock Exchange has fined an unnamed stockbroking firm £35,000 for allowing a client to rig the market through what is known as "layering" the electronic order book... more
Xavier Rolet has been chief executive of the London Stock Exchange for barely a week but he has already cleared a major legal dispute from his in-tray... more
Banking: One-time London Stock Exchange suitor Macquarie Bank says its profit this year will halve as investment values crash and trading losses mount... more
Finance: Turquoise, the rival trading platform to the London Stock Exchange set up by a group of investment banks, is bidding to raise capital through "strategic investment"... more
Since the rivals to the London Stock Exchange - the likes of Chi-X, Turquoise and more recently Nasdaq and BATs - launched their attack on the London market the air has been filled with claim and counterclaim about their level of success... more
Credit crunch: Shares in the London Stock Exchange (LSE) slumped more than 10% as it halted a £500 million share buy-back and warned of "more difficult and uncertain market conditions ahead"... more
Markets: The London Stock Exchange said yesterday's breakdown was down to a software fault rather than high trading volumes as it returned to business as usual... more
Earlier this week Chi-X, the trading platform set up last year as an alternative to the London Stock Exchange, accounted for more than half the trading in Sage, the FTSE 100 software company... more
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