Trading
XTX Markets’ top quants share £600m profit pool
Algorithmic trading firm splits record profit among LLP members
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FCA approves London Stock Exchange as first Pisces operator
The City regulator is gearing up for a new private share trading platform later this year
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FCA warns algorithmic trading firms over compliance failures
Regulator probes trading firms as it explores new rules to boost UK markets
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Former AIM boss to chair private shares platform JP Jenkins
Martin Graham was part of a group that tried to buy AIM earlier this year
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Why Deutsche Bank’s former FX chief is reinventing himself as an opera composer
Kevin Rodgers spent 25 years on the trading floor, but is now turning to music
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Citigroup hires JPMorgan’s Prickett to run European G10 rates
US banks have seen a surge in trading revenue so far in 2025
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Trading Places: Barclays hires ex-Numis chief, Kirkoswald adds ex-HSBC trader
Find out who is on the move in the City and beyond this week
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Marex agrees to buy Winterflood Securities from Close Brothers
Marex snaps up UK broker in £104m deal
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‘I’m already up $45,000 in about an hour’ — Reddit traders boast about wins as meme-stock mania returns
Krispy Kreme, GoPro and others have joined Opendoor and Kohl’s in the latest meme-stock rally, but traders have needed to move quickly to lock in gains
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Tom Hayes ‘always believed’ he would beat Libor rigging conviction
The former City trader says others convicted of rate rigging should also have their rulings overturned
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London Stock Exchange Group weighs move to 24-hour trading
Several US bourses have applied to regulators to allow round-the-clock stock trading
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SIX and Aquis plan to grab 20% of European share trading
Takeover activity is sweeping across the continent’s exchanges and Switzerland’s SIX Group is eyeing a new pan-European stock trading network — with the help of London challenger Aquis
Trading Places: Citigroup’s hiring spree, XTX Markets’ co-CEO steps down
Find out who is on the move in the City and beyond this week
Revealed: Europe’s most influential in trading 2025
From the London Stock Exchange to JPMorgan, here are the executives who made it onto FN’s list
UK to delay capital rules for banks’ trading arms until 2028
Bank of England flags ‘continued uncertainty’ over other jurisdictions’ timelines
BNP Paribas to hire 60 salespeople in global markets drive
French bank pushes through expansion as it looks to be ‘large, scalable, stable European counterpart’
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Deutsche Börse to return banking licences in regulatory shake-up
Germany’s biggest exchange operator pushes for more efficiency
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Cboe exchange tries to lure more retail trades with free execution offer
Bourse eyes more retail orders after EU moved to ban key business model for zero-commission brokers
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Investors traded a record $6.6 trillion worth of stock in the first half of 2025
Retail investors’ dip-buying remains as strong as ever despite tariffs, Middle East tensions and economic uncertainty
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An audience with Enrico Bruni: ‘In order to scale up, the electronic rails have to be put in place’
Tradeweb has enjoyed meteoric growth in recent years thanks to institutions flocking to its platform. But its co-head of global markets says the evolution of electronic trading is far from over
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