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Finextra TV/Algorithmic trading
Natan Tiefenbrun, commercial director, Turquoise, London Stock Exchange, talks with Finextra about algo 'sign offs' and HFT regulations at the High Frequency Trading Focus Day at TradeTech 2011.
13 April 2011
News/Algorithmic trading
The UK's Financial Services Authority has no intention of "looking through lines of code" before signing off algorithms used by high-frequency traders, describing the prospect, floated by the European Commission, as a "bad idea".
12 April 2011
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has unveiled plans to ditch circuit breakers in favour of a 'limit up-limit down' mechanism for reducing market volatility.
06 April 2011
Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Mary Schapiro is calling for tougher regulation on automated trading systems in a bid to combat the risks of algorithmic-generated volume surges and hacking.
24 March 2011
Former Goldman Sachs programmer Sergey Aleynikov has been sentenced to eight years and one month in jail for stealing the bank's propriety high-frequency trading code.
21 March 2011
Andrew Morgan, European head of Autobahn Equity, at Deutsche Bank talks about how the bank is offering education and tools to help their buy-side clients navigate a market that includes HFT.
10 March 2011
Jack Vensel, MD, head of electronic trading, EMEA, Citi, talks with Finextra about the recent spate of exchange mergers and MTF consolidation.
07 March 2011
Scott Atwell FPL Global Steering Committee Co-Chair talks with Finextra about the global take-up of FIXatdl one year on.
With eight liquidity partners, Quote MTF plans on targeting passive liquidity in the market.
06 March 2011
Former SocGen trader Samarth Agrawal has been sentenced to three years in jail for stealing the bank's high frequency trading code.
03 March 2011
A CFTC technology advisory committee has set out a range of proposals, including the introduction of price collars and a "kill button", to help check high-frequency trading.
02 March 2011
High-frequency traders could be charged fees for the disproportionate amount of orders they send under recommendations from a panel set up in the wake of last May's flash crash.
18 February 2011
The UK government has tapped former London Stock Exchange chief Clara Furse to head up a study into the impact of high-frequency trading on market stability and the economy.
09 February 2011
Investment firm Axa Rosenberg has agreed to pay $242 million to settle SEC charges that it covered up a computer code error in its quantitative investment model that cost clients millions of dollars.
04 February 2011
The Johannesburg Stock Exchange has licensed the MillenniumIT technology platform from the LSE as it bids to cut transaction times and attract high-frequency traders.
European stock exchanges have become more efficient and slashed the cost of trading over the last year as they bid to fight off growing competition from a rash of post-MiFID dark pool and MTF competitors, according to research from ITG.
Goldman Sachs is introducing a feature that enables its electronic trading business customers to search for large blocks of liquidity in dark pools while still working the order using the algorithm's existing logic.
02 February 2011
High-frequency trading accounts for over three quarters of transactions in the UK equity market, according to research from Tabb Group.
24 January 2011
Credit Suisse Securities is set to launch a US electronic communications network (ECN) called Light Pool that will target long term investors.
12 January 2011
Nasdaq OMX has agreed the acquisition of real-time risk management technology provider FTEN. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
16 December 2010
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