JD Supra: Mergers

JANUARY 17, 2024

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Justice Antitrust Division (DOJ) on December 21, 2023, released the FY 2022 HSR Annual Report (the Report). The Report covers the period October 1, 2021, through September 30, 2022, which represents the first full fiscal year of the Biden Administration’s merger enforcement efforts.

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JD Supra: Mergers

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

In October 2020 and 2021, the FCC adopted a pair of Orders to streamline the processing of applications involving “reportable” foreign ownership that are referred to the Committee for the Assessment of Foreign Participation in the United States Telecommunications Services Sector—commonly known as “Team Telecom.”

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The TRADE

JUNE 19, 2025

David Saltiel, The US Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) acting director of the trading and markets division is set to leave the regulator. He also previously served a separate stint as acting head of the department in 2021. “I Salitel is set to depart 4 July 2025 having served as acting director since December 2024.

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The TRADE

AUGUST 30, 2023

Union Investment’s Christoph Hock is set to step away from his role as head of multi-asset trading later this year to pursue an opportunity in digital assets and tokenisation within the asset management firm, The TRADE can reveal. Union is bolstering its digital assets division, The TRADE understands.

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The TRADE

MARCH 26, 2024

Leveraged loan trading revenue topped $900 million in 2023, up 16% from 2021 and 29% from 2022, a new report from Coalition Greenwich has found. Execution quality was the key priority when choosing a dealer counterparty, with 48% of buy-side leveraged loan trading volume allocated to dealers based on the execution quality.

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JD Supra: Mergers

JANUARY 4, 2024

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the U.S. Covering the time period from October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2022, the Report provides data on the Agencies’ activities in connection with the premerger notification program established under the Hart-Scott-Rodino-Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as amended (the HSR Act).

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CNBC: Investing

JUNE 9, 2025

How to trade it Published Mon, Jun 9 2025 10:46 AM EDT Michael Khouw @Michael_Khouw WATCH LIVE RH's unique position, with a high-end assortment, relative scale, and a small share of the home furnishings market, leaves room for long-term growth. RH is trading at ~ 18.7x RH's $3.9

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The TRADE

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The London Stock Exchange (LSEG) saw overall growth across its key businesses in 2023, with considerable improvement across data and analytics, capital markets, and in particular, post-trade. LSEG labelled 2023 an “outstanding” year for post-trade, having seen significant strategic progress. rise year-on-year as compared to 2022.

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PE Hub

JANUARY 9, 2024

SVP has owned 60 percent of IPC since 2021. The post SVP acquires complete ownership of trading communications tech firm IPC appeared first on PE Hub.

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

In May, the quarterly Acuiti Avelacom survey found that around 50% of prop trading firms were considering moving operations out of European markets due to complexity around the Investment Firms Prudential Regime (IFRD). Both the US and Switzerland were popular amongst lower latency trading firms, said Acuiti.

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JD Supra: Mergers

JULY 27, 2023

On July 19, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) and the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) (collectively, the “Agencies”) published Draft Merger Guidelines. By: Mintz

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CNBC: Investing

JUNE 16, 2025

"However, with stock trading at 25x CY27e EBIT, a premium to the peer group at 16x, we believe much of the upside is priced in." billion initial public offering raise marked the largest tech offering on Wall Street since 2021. " CoreWeave went public in late March. CoreWeave's $1.5

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The TRADE is delighted to announce the shortlisted nominees for the Industry Person of the Year Award 2024. The winner will be decided by a live industry vote at The TRADE’s Leaders in Trading gala awards night on 7 November at The Savoy. Congratulations to this year’s shortlisted nominees!

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The TRADE

JANUARY 30, 2024

Electronic trading platforms captured almost a third (32%) of overall Canadian equity trading volume in 2023, with this share expected to rise in the next three years, a new report by Coalition Greenwich has found. As a result, electronic and/or algorithmic trading has seen usage increase.

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CNBC: Investing

MAY 30, 2024

The Russell 2000 has gone more than 600 trading days without a record high, dating back to November 2021. Interest rates and earnings growth are key factors.

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JD Supra: Mergers

JULY 27, 2023

On July 19, 2023, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a draft version of new Merger Guidelines (Merger Guidelines), which would replace the 2010 Horizontal Merger Guidelines and the 2020 Vertical Merger Guidelines (the latter were rescinded by the FTC in September 2021).

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The TRADE

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Vikesh Patel With this approval, the pan-European clearing house will introduce a service for European SFT transactions in cash equities and ETFs, which includes central clearing, settlement and post-trade lifecycle management. In Europe, there have been multiple failed attempts to successfully introduce and maintain SFT clearing.

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The TRADE

JULY 7, 2025

The post Australian Securities Exchange, Tokyo Stock Exchange and Fujitsu collaborate on RFQ platform appeared first on The TRADE. In May 2022, the exchange partnered with technology provider Beeks Financial Cloud Group to provide clients with colocation infrastructure to connect to the Australian Liquidity Centre (ALC).

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The TRADE

JULY 2, 2025

The TRADE’s Rising Stars of Trading and Execution Awards return for their eleventh year, recognising the brightest up-and-coming talent across trading and execution for 2025. The Rising Stars ceremony took on a new format in 2024 as a celebration of both 10 years of the initiative and 20 years of The TRADE.

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The TRADE

JUNE 18, 2025

Jan Treuren Cboe Clear Europe launched the clearing service in March 2025, wherein Natixis Corporate & Investment Banking acted as a principal lender against JP Morgan as a borrower, as part of the first trades cleared through the new service.

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TechCrunch: M&A

JULY 17, 2023

Nano has destroyed significant value and trades at negative firm value,” the company writes. While a new director joined the Board in 2020, he was ousted barely a year later in 2021 following some self-serving corporate governance maneuvers geared at maintaining the underperforming status quo and the mummified Board’s grip on power.

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The TRADE

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Find previous years’ recognised shortlists here: 2022 –  2021  –  2020  –  2019  –  2018  –  2017  –  2016  –  2015. Congratulations to all the winners below.

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The TRADE

APRIL 29, 2024

David Wright has been named head of FX trading and distribution at MUFG after three years with the business. He joined the bank in 2021 as global head of e-FX having and previously served as a strategic transformation consultant at State Street.

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The TRADE

JUNE 9, 2025

Sinet brings 10 years of trading experience to his new position and previously worked as a credit trader at Mizuho from April 2023 to November 2024. Peel Hunt Peel Hunt’s head of electronic and program trading Nishad Vallonthaiel is departing for pastures new, The TRADE can reveal. His next role is unconfirmed.

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TechCrunch: M&A

AUGUST 18, 2023

In the years that followed, Boxed reportedly rejected a $400 million buyout offer from grocer Kroger in 2018, then later partnered with one of Asia’s largest retailers (Aeon) in 2021 for an expansion. At the time, Boxed had more than 7 million registered users and reported it was close to profitability.

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The TRADE

JUNE 20, 2025

How did the plan come together for an around-the-clock equities trading platform? At the time, the New York Stock Exchange or NASDAQ didn’t really have any plan to address after hours trading, so that was the gap. Add to that, the fact that stock trading is of course very regulated.

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The TRADE

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Toronto-based stock exchange TMX Group has launched a new platform designed to optimise the trading of Canadian equities. TMX Group confirmed the new order types were designed to optimise trading execution by “dynamically adjusting” to market conditions. In 2021, Cboe created a new block trading platform in the region.

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The TRADE

JUNE 11, 2024

Investment data management solutions provider FINBOURNE Technology has expanded its integration with Taskize to enhance post-trade operational efficiency. The development builds on top of the initial integration of Taskize into FINBOURNE’s LUSID platform in 2021.

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The TRADE

JUNE 1, 2023

Polar Capital’s head of trading Alex Jenkins has left the boutique hedge fund to join rival Millennium, The TRADE can reveal. Jenkins has been head of trading at Polar Capital for three and a half years, joining in 2019 after serving with Highbridge Capital Management for five years as its head of European trading.

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The TRADE

JUNE 17, 2024

Cross asset market maker IMC has become the latest trading participant to join Cboe Europe Derivatives (CEDX). CEDX came to market in 2021, officially launching with a futures and options trading offering. The exchange launched single stock options trading in November last year.

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TechCrunch: M&A

AUGUST 2, 2023

Coming off of a huge couple of years of business during the pandemic, in 2021, it was valued at nearly $7.7 Hopin has not raised any further money since 2021, and between then and now it has gone through multiple rounds of layoffs affecting hundreds of employees. Its customer list features Slack, VMware, UPS, Pepsi and many more.

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The TRADE

JUNE 23, 2025

Susquehanna Institutional broker dealer Susquehanna International Securities has appointed Matt Coupe to its fixed income trading team. In his new role, Coupe will be responsible for working with market participants to help them “capture unique opportunities” on securities trading platforms.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 24, 2023

ION subsidiary LIST has completed phase two of the migration of its Borsa Italiana clients onto Euronext’s Optiq technology trading platform. LIST’s FastTrade solution is fully customisable and offers improved trading capabilities, developed to handle the migration of Italian bond markets managed Borsa Italiana to Euronext’s Optiq technology.

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The TRADE

MARCH 27, 2024

The European Commission has rushed to implement a last minute draft revision to its Mifir text to plug a dark trading loophole caused by a clerical error. Following the changes, dark trading market share increased modestly and then plateaued much like the activity seen in the US which does not use caps also.

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The TRADE

MARCH 1, 2024

Aquis Exchange is set to begin charging its trading members for non-displayed market data feeds for the first time since its inception almost 11 years ago. Non-display and terminal fees are now applicable to trading members, the notice confirmed. Trading fees, subscriptions, and message tiers remain unchanged, The TRADE understands.

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The TRADE

MAY 22, 2024

Milan Galik Interactive Brokers has become a direct trading participant on CEDX and a direct clearing participant for equity derivatives on Cboe’s pan-European clearing house and CEDX’s clearing provider, Cboe Clear Europe. “We In November last year, CEDX expanded into equity options, with future expansion of these products in Q1 2024.

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TechCrunch: M&A

JUNE 27, 2023

billion valuation during the heady fundraising days of late 2021 (and $100 million earlier in 2021), today announced that it has acquired identity verification service Berbix for $70 million in cash and stock transactions. Socure , the identity verification service that raised a massive $450 million Series E round at a $4.5

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