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Technology-focused Hedge Fund, AienTech, Closes after Making its Mark in FX as a Top Provider of Volume to Bank Platforms

Posted on September 27, 2013 by Innovator

New York-based, high-frequency trading (HFT) firm AienTech is closing down after almost three years in operation, its chief executive and founder Ugur Arslan has confirmed. Details surrounding the closure are not yet known. Launched in January 2011 with a staff … Continue reading →

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SAC Charges Another Win for Machines Over Human Traders

Posted on July 29, 2013 by admin

In pursuing and winning an indictment of SAC Capital Advisors LP, federal prosecutors are intent on shuttering one of the largest and most successful stock-trading hedge-fund firms in Wall Street history. If they succeed, it will also mark the effective … Continue reading →

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GSA Complains About High-Frequency Currency Penalty

Posted on February 5, 2013 by cbasdeo09

Hedge fund GSA Capital Partners is none too pleased with acurrency-trading platform it uses. The London-based firm has stopped posting passive orders on Thomson Reuters’ Reuters Matching platform, protesting what it said was a slap on the wrist for another … Continue reading →

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HFTs Emerge From the Shadows

Posted on July 2, 2012 by Innovator

Today in the Financial News, Tim Cave reports that it was not so long ago that gaining access to high-frequency trading firms seemed almost as difficult as getting an audience with the Pope. How times have changed. As quickly as … Continue reading →

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HFT Chief Confident of Reprieve on Mifid Rule

Posted on July 2, 2012 by Innovator

Michelle Price of Financial News writes that Europe’s top high-frequency trading chief has said he expects a new regulatory proposal, designed to rein-in HFT firms, to be dropped. Remco Lenterman, chairman of HFT trade body the European Principal Traders Association, … Continue reading →

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HFT Happy Hour Presents Maneet Ahuja, ‘The Alpha Masters: Unlocking the Genius of the World’s Top Hedge Funds’, July 10

Posted on July 1, 2012 by Innovator

Join Hedge Fund, Alternative Investments, Private Equity, High-Frequency, Algorithmic and Proprietary Trading Managers, Investors, Executives and Professionals From the Most Prestigious Firms for Networking and Cocktails  Ms. Ahuja, author of recently published The Alpha Masters, will bring the secretive world … Continue reading →

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SEC Could Seek Nasdaq Upgrading

Posted on June 30, 2012 by Innovator

Jenny Strasburg and Jacob Bunge of The Wall Street Journal report that Nasdaq OMX may be forced by securities regulators to upgrade its trading systems in the wake of last month’s glitch ridden stock sale by Facebook. The Securities and … Continue reading →

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Cantor Fitzgerald Plans to Hire 1,000

Posted on June 30, 2012 by Innovator

Julie Steinberg of the Wall Street Journal reports that apparently it pays to be a small fish in a big pond. Cantor Fitzgerald, a smallish investment bank that’s private, still plans to hire 1,000 people in the next several years, … Continue reading →

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Views From the Top: Discussing Changes to the World of Trading

Posted on June 30, 2012 by Innovator

Earlier this week, the Financial News reported that the world of trading is under attack on several fronts, as a slew of new rules from Dodd-Frank in the US and the international Basel III capital rules, to the European market … Continue reading →

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Unlocking the Genius of the World’s Top Hedge Funds

Posted on June 30, 2012 by Innovator

Join hedge fund, alternative investments, private equity, high-frequency, algorithmic and proprietary trading managers, investors, executives and professionals from the most prestigious firms for networking, cocktails, and a unique presentation from author and CNBC Hedge Fund Specialist Maneet Ahuja on July 10th. … Continue reading →

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