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News/Algorithmic trading
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
New York prosecutors have charged two men with stealing trading code and data from their former employer, Flow Traders, and e-mailing it to themselves.
27 August 2013
A British Web developer has built his own steampunk ticker-tape machine which prints out tweets instead of stock prices.
23 August 2013
A UK parliamentary committee has called on the government to investigate the viability of imposing a financial transaction tax on the profits made by high frequency traders operating in London markets.
25 July 2013
Regulators on both sides of the Atlantic have levelled their first fines against high frequency traders who deployed computer algorithms to spoof the markets by placing and immediately cancelling bids and offers in futures contracts.
22 July 2013
Under pressure from the New York attorney general, Thomson Reuters has agreed to suspend its practice of providing high-frequency traders with market-moving consumer survey results a couple of seconds before the information is given to other subscribers.
09 July 2013
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
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