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Global market maker Citadel Securities to pay $22.6 million to settle charges
January 16th, 2017
Citadel Securities Paying $22 Million for Misleading Clients About Pricing Trades The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that Citadel Securities LLC has agreed to pay $22.6 million to settle charges that its business unit handling retail customer orders ...
Citadel appoints Chief Technology Officer of hedge fund business
June 30th, 2016
Citadel announced the appointment of Steven Lieblich as Chief Technology Officer of Citadel’s hedge fund business. A 30-year veteran of Morgan Stanley, Steve has served in a series of senior technology roles, most recently as Morgan Stanley’s Chief Information ...
Citadel has just hired a top trader of Morgan Stanley’s electronic trading
April 4th, 2016
Ken Griffin’s Citadel has hired a top trader from Morgan Stanley. Morgan Stanley’s global head of rates electronic trading, Nicola White, is joining Citadel Securities as global COO for fixed income, currencies and commodities, the firm has confirmed. “She has a ...
Citadel Says One of Its China Accounts Was Suspended
August 3rd, 2015
A Guosen Futures account suspended amid Chinese regulators’ probe following recent stock market plunge U.S.-based hedge fund firm Citadel LLC said trading in one of the accounts it manages in China has been suspended, as regulators battle a steep ...
Three Broker-Dealers to pay more than $6 Million in penalties
December 13th, 2018
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that three broker-dealers have agreed to pay more than $6 million to settle charges for providing the SEC with incomplete and inaccurate securities trading information in required SEC productions known as “blue ...
Bitcoin turns 10 — how it went from an abstract idea to a $100 billion market in a decade
November 1st, 2018
Ten years ago, as Lehman Brothers was declaring bankruptcy and the global economy was lurching into recession, the idea for an alternative currency was being quietly built online. Bitcoin went from an anti-establishment fad on the internet to a ...
KCG adds four new independent directors to Board
January 20th, 2017
KCG Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: KCG) announced today that its Board of Directors has appointed Peter Fisher, Colin Smith, Heather Tookes and Adrian Weller as Directors, effective immediately. KCG also announced that Rene M. Kern and John C. (Hans) Morris ...
LMAX Exchange expands in the US with the launch of a New York-based exchange
September 27th, 2016
LMAX Exchange, the leading MTF for FX, today announced the expansion of its global infrastructure with the launch of its North American matching engine in the Equinix International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data centre in New York (NY4). The LMAX ...
Thomson Reuters Strengthens Buy-Side Trading Capabilities with REDE Acquisition
September 23rd, 2016
Thomson Reuters has signed a definitive agreement to acquire REDI Holdings, a trading technology pioneer whose flagship REDIPlus execution management system (EMS) provides advanced cross-asset class trading capabilities to the buy-side. The acquisition is expected to close by the ...
keza app relaunched enabling bitcoin investing in us stocks
August 31st, 2016
Satoshi Citadel Industries (SCI) has acquired the bitcoin-powered Keza app which allows users to invest in mainstream U.S. stocks, and has relaunched it. The Keza app closed in April shortly after launching, CCN reported. The project had received $357,000 in funding backed by Digital ...