Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Portware said it is introducing an online version of its flagship trade management and execution platform for large trading firms, that will allow institutions, asset managers and hedge funds of any size to work from and in the computing cloud.

You’ve heard of structured products. These largely were (and are) complex securities based on lots of streams of cash in underlying loans whose flows were not well predicted. Now come “synthetic” ETFs, where interest-rate swaps and other derivative products are used to replicate the performance of a securities index.

Interactive Brokers Group, which considered buying part or all of Jon Corzine's MF Global Holdings as it began to collapse in October, said it has begun segregating customer funds from house funds “on a daily basis.”

Knight Capital Group said its volume of trading in U.S. equities fell 19.3% in December, compared to November. Its volume also fell 3.5% from a year earlier.

Exchange-traded funds are like stocks. Except they're not. They’re sort of like mutual funds, but not really. Here’s a glossary of ETF terms to help clear things up.

The SEC has joined the U.S. Department of Justice in approving the merger of NYSE Euronext with Deutsche Boerse. Now the only remaining hurdle is obtaining approval from competition commissioners of the European Commission.

David Chambers, a former head of Personal Trust Services and International Trust Services at Merrill Lynch, brings 30 years of experience in serving high net-worth clients.

There’s logic in thinking that trading in funds that promise double or triple the movement of the market will exacerbate the swings that occur. But it would invert reality.

Cowen Group said it agreed to acquire Algorithmic Trading Management, a provider of customized code for executing trades electronically.

There has been no New Year’s bounce, says Raymond James Equity Research. Trading in stocks in the United States in the first half of January is down 18% versus a year ago.

The SEC has charged an investment advisory arm of UBS with overstating the prices of securities in three mutual funds, some times by more than 100%.

The parent company of Wells Fargo Wealth Advisors said net income in its wealth management business jumped 65 percent, year over year. But assets under management fell, slightly.

J.P. Morgan Chase said its net income fell 23% in the fourth quarter from a year ago, on an 18% drop in revenue.

The number of listed exchange-traded funds grew 20.6% in 2011 and the number of listed exchange-traded notes grew 53.8%, according to U.S. figures developed by the Exchange-Traded Fund Association.

The world's largest asset management firm will be the first company to list securities on a BATS Global Markets electronic venue that now competes for listings on the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq Stock Market.

Spending on hardware, software and communications gear is expected to grow by more than 5% this year. Here's a snapshot look at the Gartner’s forecast for 2012.

A date is set for the exchange-traded equivalent of the world's largest mutual fund to get going.

NYSE Euronext said it had not been notified by the European Commission of any “official decision” on its merger with Deutsche Boerse, after a pair of media reports that the nearly year-old deal will not be approved on anti-competition grounds.

NYSE Euronext said the volume of trading in stocks it handles in the United States fell 10.6% in December.

SEC says it will no longer let companies "neither admit nor deny" charges in settling cases it brings against them. Sort of.