Trading
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
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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
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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
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UK to delay capital rules for banks’ trading arms until 2028
Bank of England flags ‘continued uncertainty’ over other jurisdictions’ timelines
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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
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
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
Meet three of FN’s Most Influential in European Finance
Find out about a trio making their debut this year
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London’s Aquis mulls Pisces private stock market
Challenger stock market has just been acquired by Switzerland’s SIX
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Jane Street banned from Indian markets after alleged manipulation
Trading giant allegedly made $570m in ‘unlawful gains’
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UK fintech wins race to become EU’s top source for bond trading data
Ediphy-led group to provide EU’s consolidated tape for bonds
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Euronext in talks to acquire Greek stock exchange
Paris-based bourse owner weighs adding eighth country to exchange network
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Big exchanges lead EU equity data race after challenger drops out
Data provider big xyt pulls out of consolidated tape bidding process
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