Brokerage

E*Trade Financial Corp. agreed to sell a market-making business that had been the subject of a regulatory inquiry to Susquehanna International Group LLP for $75 million.

Agency-only broker Bloomberg Tradebook raised more than $1 million in gross trading commissions during its recent second annual Charity Day.

ETF wars heat up with BTIG move. Also, see which industry veteran trades the city for the suburbs. Plus, see which sales traders are finding jobs in Chicago.

Los Angeles-based regional brokerage B. Riley is taking a bigger bite out of the Big Apple.In a bid to take advantage of the growing pool of available trading talent and get exposure to the area's plethora of money managers, the firm is beefing up its New York City trading desk.

An instant-message group involving senior traders at banks including Barclays Plc, Citigroup Inc. and Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc is being scrutinized by regulators investigating potential manipulation of the foreign- exchange market, four people with knowledge of the probe said.

Execution Management Systems are moving away from their bulge broker roots and are increasingly offered by various independent vendors. Traders are also becoming more comfortable with hosted and cloud-based EMSs rather than those hard-wired into their desktop

Securities regulators fined Knight Capital Americas LLC $12 million for the trading malfunction that roiled the U.S. stock market in August 2012, saying the firm ignored dozens of error messages before its computers bombarded exchanges with millions of unintended orders.

Trading is and always has been a man's world. But there are exceptions to every rule. Women in trading have made their imprint on an industry that has not always been female-friendly. Welcome to Traders Magazine's Wall Street Women Awards. Join us in congratulating these 15 award-winning women who have placed their mark of success upon the Street-and as a result, are being honored for their accomplishments.

Deep Value, a Chicago-based vendor of equity algorithms, is expanding beyond both its equity and vendor roots to start trading credit products, currencies, and interest rate products.

Agency-only broker Bloomberg Tradebook will be hosting its second annual charity day where it will donate a day's equity trading commissions to philanthropic causes.