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Indian Outsourcing Prime for Consolidation

Facing growing competitive pressures, major Indian IT service providers are likely to snatch up specialist firms at a rapid rate.

MTS Faces Looming Threat to Dominance in Government Bonds

The Italy-based MTS group of fixed-income platforms--long dominant in the interdealer, electronic trading of European government bonds--is facing growing competition.

Labor Shifts Fee-Disclosure Burden

In a pair of interrelated rulings, the U.S. Department of Labor appears to have reduced some of the administrative burdens of pension plan sponsors, but may be putting additional strain on investment fund companies.

Rainbow Rises in Europe: Derivatives Get New Platform

The latest in a series of trading venues started by groups of often overlapping global financial institutions, a new European platform could address fungibility issues in the listed derivatives market.

DOJ: Futures Structure 'Anti-competitive'

The Department of Justice has called the vertical structure of U.S. futures exchanges anti-competitive, highlighting the growing concerns that have prompted global banks to launch competing execution venues.