Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Fidelity Information Services tops the rankings in 2011 of the largest financial technology vendors in the world, according to the eighth annual FinTech 100 survey compiled by IDC Financial Insights, American Banker and Bank Technology News.

Financial Tracking Technologies said its insider trading detection technology has been expanded to cover international markets.

New regulations requiring traders to post initial margin when clearing swap contracts through clearinghouses and outside of clearinghouses will cost financial firms $1.4 trillion in new capital charges, according to a research report released on Monday by Tabb Group.

Direct Edge said it is preparing to deliver a database of trade and quote history that is available anywhere, online.

Anova Technologies said it is rolling out a technology that will encrypt trading instructions in under one millionth of a second.

In July, forward-thinking fund managers were trying to figure out what might happen to their holdings if -- heaven forbid -- the unimaginable might occur. In this case, the unimaginable was whether a major ratings agency might downgrade U.S. debt, given the fractiousness of American political decision-making.

NYSE Euronext said activity on its U.S. stock exchanges fell 19.8 percent in September from August.

Risk management software firm Algorithmics said that it will work with Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking to develop a counterparty credit valuation adjustment product that SocGen can use to actively price and manage counterparty credit risk across all asset classes.

Investors have pulled nearly $80 billion this year out of mutual funds that invest in U.S. stocks. That's the tally after investors yanked $5.5 billion from all types of mutual funds in the last week of September.

One or more Internet users claiming to be the digital activist group known as Anonymous Hackers said overnight that it intends to take down the New York Stock Exchange’s public website next week.

The Bank of New York Mellon said late Tuesday that it is a victim of ‘prosecutorial overreach,’ at least in the case of the $2 billion lawsuit filed against it by New York state attorney general Eric T. Schneiderman.

The state and city of New York have sued BNY Mellon for using "fraudulent rates" to collect $2 billion in fees from public and private pension funds in foreign currency transactions.

Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Inc. has been fined $1 million for supervisory failures that allowed a Texas broker to run a Ponzi scheme.

Renaissance Capital has installed trade surveillance software from Redkite Financial Markets.

CME Group said it set new monthly records for clearing both interest rate swaps and credit default swaps.

Mutual funds may have wielded the ax heavily on the people and technology to drive costs down, since the credit crisis erupted three years ago.

CBOE Stock Exchange said it agreed to acquire the National Stock Exchange, an all-electronic stock exchange now based in Jersey City, N.J.

The combined assets of the nation’s mutual funds decreased by $398 billion, or 3.3 percent, to $11.621 trillion in August, according to the Investment Company Institute.

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Merrill Lynch said it rolled out an enhanced set of algorithmic trading tools that allow market participants to tune settings on strategies down to each order that is to be executed.