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News/Algorithmic trading
US regulatory body Finra is currently investigating 170 separate instances of potential market abuse by algorithmic trading firms.
22 May 2014
Thomson Reuters has reached a settlement agreement with a former staffer who sued the firm for wrongful termination, claiming he lost his job for whistle-blowing.
13 May 2014
The Australian Securities and Investment Commission (Asic) has hit out at media criticism of its apparently laissez-faire approach to high frequency trading and the 'hysteria' which has gripped the markets following the publication of Michael Lewis' damning expose of 'Flash Boy' traders.
29 April 2014
More than two thirds of US financial industry participants think that the equity markets are not fair and half consider high-frequency trading harmful, according to a survey from ConvergEx Group.
24 April 2014
Members of the European Parliament have voted through new rules designed to clamp down on high-frequency trading 'Flash Boys'.
16 April 2014
CME Group is being sued by three users, accused of selling sneak peeks at order information to high-frequency traders.
14 April 2014
Wading into the raging debate about the impact of high-frequency trading on stock market investing, Charles Schwab has decried the practice as a "growing cancer" that needs to be excised.
04 April 2014
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating whether high-speed traders are breaking the law by acting on non-public information ahead of the wider markets.
01 April 2014
Thomson Reuters is proposing changes to spot matching rules on its FX trading platform in an effort to ward off 'phantom pricing' tactics deployed by high-speed trading firms.
25 March 2014
New York attorney general Eric Schneiderman has called for tough regulations to tackle practices such as co-location, which he claims give high-frequency traders unfair advantages and distort the market.
18 March 2014
Eighteen of Wall Street's top banks have agreed to suspend their participation in surveys of analyst sentiment amid concerns that the practice gives high-speed traders an unfair advantage over ordinary investors.
26 February 2014
Business Wire, the corporate news release distribution company owned by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, is to stop selling its potentially market-moving content directly to high-frequency trading firms.
21 February 2014
ParFX, the spot forex electronic trading platform set up by Tradition last year, has added Citi and JP Morgan to its founder bank community.
13 February 2014
A collection of Hong Kong-licensed brokers have enlisted Markit to help them comply with new electronic trading rules on the island.
29 November 2013
As European law-makers close in on a deal to tighten rules on high-frequency trading, a new paper from the ECB warns that curbing the practice could make markets less efficient.
06 November 2013
The European Parliament has hammered out a preliminary deal with EU member states on how to regulate high-frequency trading.
23 October 2013
Knight Capital has reached a $12 million settlement with US regulators over a technology meltdown which caused market chaos and drove the firm to the brink of bankruptcy.
17 October 2013
The Securities and Exchange Commission is launching a public Web site packed with reams of the kind of data, research and analysis used by HFT traders in a bid to "transform the debate on market structure".
04 October 2013
Browser-based algorithmic trading start-up Quantopian has secured $6.7M in Series A financing from Khosla Ventures and existing investor Spark Capital.
02 October 2013
New York's attorney general has vowed to tackle the shadier side of high-frequency trading, setting up a confidential hotline for whistle-blowers to report what he calls 'insider trading 2.0'.
25 September 2013
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