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News/Algorithmic trading
The Australian securities market regulator Asic has shelved plans to introduce tougher rules on high frequency trading and dark pools following a dip in fleeting small orders by HFT traders and lower activity in dark markets.
20 June 2013
EU member states have agreed a series of reforms to the markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) aimed at enhancing transparency levels and limiting the growth of dark pool trading.
17 June 2013
Progress Software has agreed to sell its Apama complex event processing (CEP) platform to Swiss vendor Software AG. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
13 June 2013
CME Group says that it is working to close the time gap that sometimes exists between customers receiving trade confirmations and the information appearing in public data feeds after the Wall Street Journal reported that high-speed traders are exploiting the lag.
01 May 2013
The technology-driven revolution in securities markets in recent years requires regulators to overhaul their surveillance operations with a focus on the micro-management of trade data, says a report from the International Organization of Securities Commissions (Iosco).
22 April 2013
The bosses of three major US exchanges met regulators yesterday to voice their concern about the amount of trading moving away from their public venues to private platforms such as dark pools.
10 April 2013
A former Thomson Reuters employee is suing the news and information vendor for wrongful dismissal after he made allegations to the FBI that the company was releasing market reports early to ultra low-latency clients.
05 April 2013
Nasdaq OMX has struck a deal to buy electronic US Treasuries trading platform eSpeed from BGC Partners for $750 million in cash.
02 April 2013
The potential for market abuse in dark pool trading is more profound than 'overstated' concerns about the dangers of high frequency trading, says Australia's Securities and Investment Commission (Asic).
18 March 2013
Google, Nyse Technolgies and Thomson Reuters are among 31 firms to throw their hats into the ring to build a consolidated audit trail (CAT) system to monitor and analyse US trading activity.
07 March 2013
The FBI has begun working with a new Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) unit to take on algorithmic trading-based market manipulation.
06 March 2013
An ever increasing reliance on technology brings considerable risks for the financial services industry, with bungled automated decisions costing many firms both money and customers, according to research from the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU).
31 January 2013
With funding from Spark Capital and Getco in the bag, Quantopian, a start-up building what it claims to be the world's first browser-based algorithmic trading platform, has emerged from beta.
24 January 2013
High-frequency traders and exchange operators have spoken out against German government plans to make HFT practitioners obtain prior authorisation to operate.
15 January 2013
The Securities and Exchange Commission has knocked back proposals by Nasdaq that would have allowed the exchange to compete with US brokers in the provision of algorithmic trading software tools.
Getco has emerged as the winner in a two-way bidding war to take over Knight Capital, beating out rival Virtu with an improved £1.2 billion cash and shares offer.
19 December 2012
The Australian Securities and Investment Commission (Asic) has selected First Derivatives to design, build and host a new market surveillance system.
13 December 2012
High Frequency trading firm Getco has made a $3.50 a share offer for Knight Capital Group, which it helped rescue from bankruptcy over the summer.
28 November 2012
In a bid to curb high-frequency trading, Australia has unveiled plans for the introduction of 'kill switches' as part of a wider package of new market integrity rules.
21 November 2012
There is no link between high-frequency trading (HFT) and market manipulation, according to research from Australia's Capital Markets Cooperative Research Centre (CMCRC).
13 November 2012
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