A New Era of Regulation
(Clearing & Settlement) The news reported by Reuters last week that the Securities Exchange Commission had been issuing subpoenas to high frequency trading firms, in addition to the recent voting...
View ArticleHigh Frequency Trading and Market Disruption
(Clearing & Settlement) The market turmoil of the last few weeks has left many fearing that we’re on our way to a repeat of 2008’s crash. With stocks plummeting on both sides of the Atlantic, there...
View ArticleThe Right and Wrong of High-Frequency Trading: Grasso
(CNBC - Gennine Kelly) High-frequency trading should not be broadly categorized as one strategy, Dick Grasso, the former chairman and CEO of the New York Stock Exchange told CNBC Monday.read more...
View ArticleThe Robin Hood tax: a small step for capitalism, a big stride for development
(Guardian blog) With high frequency trading on the rise, a modest transaction tax could raise significant revenue for the global fight against poverty.read more...
View ArticleIs High-Speed Computer Trading Killing Investing?
(CNBC - John Melloy) High speed computer trading by funds with holding periods of sometimes just milliseconds are to blame for rising volatility, the disappearance of diversification and the death of...
View ArticleThree ways to get the trading edge
(City AM) IN the high-frequency forex-trading sphere, it is latency of executions that grabs the headlines – that is the delay between an order being sent to a venue, and the venue executing that...
View ArticleOptiver sets aside $19 mln for CFTC oil probe
(Reuters - David Sheppard & Jonathan Spicer) High-frequency trading firm Optiver Holding BV has set aside $19.3 million to deal with one of the biggest oil-manipulation cases ever brought by the...
View ArticleTed Kaufman: We must cure ailing financial markets
(TheAdvertiser.com - Ted Kaufman) Our historically free, fair and credible markets are in danger. Investors from all over the world once came here to invest because they believed in our markets’...
View ArticleSweden could regulate high-frequency trade-minister
(Reuters) - Sweden wants to check whether high-frequency trades on the stock market increase volatility and could consider some form of regulation, the country's financial markets minister said on...
View ArticleGetco offers rare insight into Europe strategy...
(Financial News - Tim Cave) US-based Getco, the secretive high-frequency trading firm, has delivered rare insight into its European strategy by revealing it has given its backing to the London Stock...
View ArticleHFT role in Asian volatility contested
(The Trade News) Some high-frequency trading (HFT) techniques can exacerbate price swings and certain momentum strategies may have tried to profit from the recent market turmoil and may even have...
View ArticleHFT: How Fast Can You Really Trade?
(Futures magazine - Irene Aldridge) Over the past two years, public debate has increased on whether to regulate the maximum frequency of trading. The idea of regulation stems from a perception that the...
View ArticleHigh Frequency Trading Cuts Volatility: Professor
(CNBC - Antonya Allen) Contrary to popular belief, high frequency trading reduces volatility in stock markets rather than exacerbates it, according to new research by Professor Alex Frino at the...
View ArticleExperts disagree on the effects of a financial transaction tax
(Deutsche Welle) Franco-German plans for a Europe-wide tax on financial transactions are popular with many politicians - but less so with banks. While some experts see the tax as a cure-all, others...
View ArticleFrankfurt Stock Exchange: Migration to Xetra technology a success
100 days of Xetra Frankfurt specialist trading model / Early trading takes disproportionately large share of daily business 1. September 2011 Deutsche Börse: Deutsche Börse has enjoyed a successful...
View ArticleFSA freezes assets of several firms
(Reuters - Hugh Jones) The Financial Services Authority has frozen the assets of firms it says manipulated share prices on the London Stock Exchange and other trading platforms, the latest sign of the...
View ArticleExclusive: Regulators seek trading secrets
(Reuters - Jonathan Spicer) U.S. securities regulators have taken the unprecedented step of asking high-frequency trading firms to hand over the details of their trading strategies, and in some cases,...
View ArticleDark Pools Don't See Bright Future in Canada
(Advanced Trading - Justin Grant) During the first half of 2011, it was easy to sense that the Canadian dark pool market was beginning to take off and resemble that of the United States, where...
View ArticleU.K. Regulator Wins Order in Second Layering Market-Abuse Case
(Bloomberg - Ben Moshinsky) The U.K. financial regulator won an order barring a Swiss asset-management firm from using “layering” to manipulate shares, the second penalty this week involving the...
View ArticleSolarflare Blowing Hot on Global Stock Exchanges
(Business Weekly - Tony Quested) Having helped save Wall Street from the ravages of Hurricane Irene, software company Solarflare Communications is whipping up a storm of its own in the financial...
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