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  • For the past 12 years, electronic market-maker Getco LLC has worked to make floor-based trading look like the horse and buggy of financial markets.

    Getco Takes Floor Against the Tide Jacob Bunge 2011

  • Electronic market-maker Getco agreed to buy most of Bank of America's NYSE floor-trading operation.

    What's News— 2011

  • Now Ecclestone has responded by engaging the market-maker Harris and his stockbroking firm, Seymour Pierce.

    Barcelona's pursuit of Arsenal's Cesc Fábregas does not add up | Digger 2011

  • While terms of the deal weren't disclosed, the Chicago-based company said it will become the exchange's second-largest designated market-maker, handling about a third of all daily stock trades there.

    Getco Takes Floor Against the Tide Jacob Bunge 2011

  • For example, if a foreign-exchange firm is acting as a market-maker, or taking the other side of a client's trades, it is doubtful the investor is getting the best possible price, he said.

    Forex Brokers Draw Scrutiny Sarah Morgan 2011

  • BEIJING/HONG KONG Reuters - Bank of China , a big market-maker in China's onshore foreign exchange market, has stopped foreign exchange forwards and swaps trading with several European banks due to the unfolding debt crisis in Europe, three sources with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters on Tuesday.

    Bank of China halts FX swaps with some European banks Reuters 2011

  • BEIJING/HONG KONG Reuters - Bank of China , a big market-maker in China's onshore foreign exchange market, has stopped foreign exchange forwards and swaps trading with several European banks due to the unfolding debt crisis in Europe, three sources with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters on Tuesday.

    Bank of China halts FX swaps with some European banks Reuters 2011

  • BEIJING/HONG KONG Reuters - Bank of China , a big market-maker in China's onshore foreign exchange market, has stopped foreign exchange forwards and swaps trading with several European banks due to the unfolding debt crisis in Europe, three sources with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters on Tuesday.

    Bank of China halts FX swaps with some European banks The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

  • BEIJING/HONG KONG Reuters - Bank of China , a big market-maker in China's onshore foreign exchange market, has stopped foreign exchange forwards and swaps trading with several European banks due to the unfolding debt crisis in Europe, three sources with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters on Tuesday.

    Bank of China halts FX swaps with some European banks The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

  • The iPad and the Kindle, like the iPod before them, represent something slightly remarkable: the return of the machine as market-maker.

    E-Donnybrook 2010

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