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ASIC Has Plans to Light Up the Dark

Posted on June 28, 2012 by

Leo Shanahan writes in The Australian that stockbrokers face increased reporting requirements over suspicious market behaviour under draft guidelines issued yesterday by the Australian Securities & Investments Commission. The ASIC consultation paper revealed new rules governing “dark-pool” trading to address … Continue reading →

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Germany Moves to Regulate High-Frequency Trading

Posted on June 28, 2012 by

Members of Germany’s parliament and representatives of the finance ministry have agreed on the key points for regulating high-frequency trading on German stock exchanges, participants in the discussions told Reuters on Thursday. The regulation is likely to stipulate that high-frequency … Continue reading →

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High-Frequency Trading Has Made Markets More Efficient — Larry Tabb

Posted on June 27, 2012 by

Scott Patterson of The Wall Street Journal writes that few developments in the financial markets in recent years have inspired as much debate—oftentimes rancorous—as the rise of high-frequency trading, the use of supercomputers by sophisticated trading outfits to jump rapidly … Continue reading →

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Public Exchanges Duel With Newcomers Over Trade Transparency

Posted on June 27, 2012 by

It was reported yesterday in The New York Times by Nathaniel Popper that while most people trading stocks at home imagine their orders zipping from their brokers onto one of the nation’s stock exchanges, almost none of the trades go … Continue reading →

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Dark Pools Face Fire From Down Under

Posted on June 27, 2012 by

Tim Cave writes in the Financial News that the rapid growth of dark pools – anonymous share trading systems run by banks and market infrastructure providers – has come under fire from an Australian think tank, which claims the venues … Continue reading →

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High-Frequency Traders Growing In Influence

Posted on June 27, 2012 by

Sandro Contenta of the Toronto Star writes this morning that high-frequency traders aren’t getting much respect these days. They’re the hedge funds and financial institutions trading big quantities on the TSX and other exchanges, literally at the blink of an … Continue reading →

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High-Speed Trades Make Up Fifth of Canada Market

Posted on June 27, 2012 by

Today in Reuters Jennifer Kwan writes that high-frequency trading, using lightning-fast algorithms to turn profits, represents a fifth of all activity on the Toronto Stock Exchange and other Canadian trading systems, according to data released by regulators. Such trades, based … Continue reading →

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CME Group Fights Commodity Traders Over Rule Change

Posted on June 26, 2012 by

Andrew Harris of Bloomberg BusinessWeek writes that CME Group Inc. (CME) attorneys told a U.S. judge that a lawsuit by Chicago Board of Trade traders and brokers seeking to preserve open-outcry price settlement belongs in a federal court, not a … Continue reading →

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EBS To Change Way It Quotes Currencies on Trading System

Posted on June 26, 2012 by

This morning, Eva Szalay wrote that Electronic inter-dealer currencies-trading platform EBS plans to scrap the fifth decimal place on its currency quotes and introduce so-called half-pip pricing ahead of major changes to the system, people familiar with the matter told … Continue reading →

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LME CEO: China Links Gave Hong Kong Exchanges the Edge

Posted on June 26, 2012 by

Andrea Hotter of the Wall Street Journal writes that price wasn’t the reason why the London Metal Exchange picked Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing as its preferred buyer, the LME’s chief executive said on Tuesday. Martin Abbott said the LME … Continue reading →

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