Articles by Michael Shashoua
Barnes to Lead UBS MTF
UBS has appointed Robert Barnes CEO of its new multilateral trading facility (MTF), UBS MTF.
Duo Joins Instinet Canadian Desk
Electronic trading and agency brokerage services provider Instinet has hired Jeff Houslander and Andrew Hill as executive directors, electronic and program sales and trading on its Canadian sales and trading desk.
O'Connor Moves to Terra Nova
Financial services firm Terra Nova Financial has hired Mark O’Connor as managing director of sales.
OCC Fills Out Board
The Options Clearing Corp. (OCC) has elected Craig Abruzzo and Valar Mihan to its board of directors, and named Paul Brody vice chairman.
NYSE Floor Brokers Experience Handheld Outage
NEW YORK-Operators of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) are investigating the cause of an outage that disabled floor brokers' handheld order management systems (OMSes) for about two hours on the morning of May 5, and are trying to develop preventive…
Equinix Takes NY4 Expansion Live
NEW YORK-Datacenter provider Equinix has opened the latest expansion of its NY4 International Business Exchange (IBX) datacenter, adding about 1,250 cabinet equivalents, in Secaucus, N.J., according to vendor officials.
ITG Ventures into FX TCA
NEW YORK-Transaction cost analysis (TCA) provider and agency broker Investment Technology Group (ITG) has recently expanded its asset class coverage with the launch of its ITG TCA for FX, a post-trade analysis tool that ITG developed in conjunction with…
Bids Trading UI Gets Facelift
NEW YORK-Users of alternative trading system (ATS) Bids Trading's Bids Trader front end will see some major changes to the platform's user interface (UI) as the ATS operator rolls out its latest version, 6.22, of the trading platform.
SunGard Launches Post-Trade Derivatives Link
NEW YORK-In an attempt to standardize communications between buy-side and sell-side traders of listed derivatives, SunGard rolled out today, May 3, its post-trade communications platform, dubbed Cliq.