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A US Appeals Court says that it overturned the conviction of former Goldman Sachs programmer Sergey Aleynikov for stealing the bank's propriety HFT code because such code is "intangible property" and so not covered by the laws he was charged under.
12 April 2012
With foreign exchange evolving into a mainly electronic marketplace, the industry is poised to see massive growth in the use of algorithmic trading strategies, according to research house Greenwich Associates.
03 April 2012
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEx) is betting US$380 million on a three year technology programme designed to boost the island's standing on the world's financial stage.
28 March 2012
A European Parliament report is calling for the Commission to toughen up its crackdown on high-frequency trading under MiFID II.
26 March 2012
The broker-dealer unit of Getco has been fined $450,000 for failing to properly supervise its high-frequency trading.
23 March 2012
The Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) has become the latest bourse to signal a crackdown on the huge number of messages high-frequency traders generate.
09 March 2012
US exchange operators Nasdaq OMX and Direct Edge have outlined incentive plans designed to encourage high-frequency traders to cut back on the huge number of messages they generate.
08 March 2012
Thomson Reuters is adding information and sentiment analysis from social media sites and blogs to its machine-readable news service.
07 March 2012
A government-sponsored independent review into the performance of UK equity markets has encountered deep scepticism among asset managers of the wisdom of opening national stock markets to competition and scathing criticism of the role played by high frequency traders in distorting market values.
29 February 2012
The European Securities and Markets Authority (Esma) has given national securities watchdogs two months to declare their plans for enforcing new rules on scrutinising high frequency trading activities.
24 February 2012
High frequency trading does not pose a significant threat to financial stability in Sweden but does raise the spectre of market abuse, according to the country's regulator.
21 February 2012
Former Goldman Sachs programmer Sergey Aleynikov has had his conviction for stealing the bank's propriety high-frequency trading code overturned by a federal appeals court.
17 February 2012
Nyse Euronext has agreed to acquire a 25% stake in UK trading technology outfit Fixnetix. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
16 February 2012
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has voted to set up a subcommittee on high frequency trading in a bid to better understand its effects on the market.
10 February 2012
CME Group has fined high-frequency trading firm Infinium Capital Management a total of $850,000 for three separate computer malfunctions.
28 November 2011
Pipeline Trading Systems will pay $1 million to settle SEC charges that it failed to tell users of its dark pool that the vast majority of orders were filed by an affiliated operation.
25 October 2011
Financial markets in Europe are set to undergo a fundamental overhaul, as the European Commission rolls out new rules and regulations covering every aspect of the trade lifecycle, from pre-and post-trade transparency, through to execution and clearing and settlement.
20 October 2011
Global securities regulators have called for stronger oversight of high frequency and algorithmic trading activity to 'mitigate the risks' posed by high-speed trading on market integrity and efficiency.
The European Commission is this week meeting to finalise the details of a new set of rules governing competition and transparency in the capital markets, with implications for high frequency traders, execution venues, clearing firms, and the over-the-counter markets.
19 October 2011
A former Citadel quantitative financial engineer has been arrested and charged in relation to the theft of trading-related computer code.
14 October 2011
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