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News/Algorithmic trading
Burgundy has reported Verizon to Sweden's competition authority, with the Nordic multilateral trading facility claiming it has been blocked from using the US firm's network infrastructure.
14 December 2010
Former Goldman Sachs computer programmer Sergey Aleynikov faces up to 15 years in prison after a New York jury found him guilty of stealing propriety code connected to the investment bank's high-frequency trading platform.
13 December 2010
Dutch market watchdog AFM says it sees no grounds for restricting the use of high frequency trading (HFT), but warns that market participants and regulators must improve their operational and risk management techniques to deal with the complexity of computer-driven trading strategies
10 December 2010
The European Commission has published its widely trailed Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) review, calling for greater oversight of high-frequency trading and a clamp down on speculators in commodities.
08 December 2010
Traders will have to explain to regulators how their computer algorithms are designed and work as part of the European Commission's widespread overhaul of MiFID.
03 December 2010
UBS is reporting its netted exchange data usage direct to the London Stock Exchange as part of a new 'per-user' programme, which allows firms to directly report their global real-time terminal inventory to the LSE.
30 November 2010
In what she describes as a "shot across the bow of the dark markets", Kay Swinburne, Conservative MEP for Wales says that the European Parliament is working on regulation that will actively encourage all trades to be executed in the lit markets.
25 November 2010
The UK government is supporting a new study into the impact of high frequency trading on market stability and the UK economy.
24 November 2010
Citi is selling its LavaFlow ColorPalette order management system (OMS) to trading technology vendor FlexTrade. Financial terms were not disclosed.
15 November 2010
Nasdaq OMX Nordic is launching a dark pool for regulated cash equity markets in Stockholm, Copenhagen, Helsinki and Iceland.
12 November 2010
Chi-East, the pan-Asian dark pool joint venture from the Singapore Exchange (SGX) and Chi-X, has launched.
11 November 2010
A former SocGen trader has gone on trial in Manhattan accused of stealing proprietary computer code used in the bank's high-frequency trading (HFT) system.
10 November 2010
The European Parliament's economics committee has backed a report calling for tougher regulation of dark pools and high-frequency trading.
09 November 2010
Dark pool trading needs to be made more transparent to ease growing concerns about price discovery, fragmentation and potential risks to market integrity, according to the International Organization of Securities Commissions (Iosco).
28 October 2010
Finextra TV/Algorithmic trading
HSBC weigh in on OTC regulations and the impact of AIFMD.
25 October 2010
Philippe Chambadal of SmartStream discusses the cost and risk implications of inefficient ETD processing.
The London Stock Exchange is hailing Turquoise as the world's fastest trading platform, with an average latency of 126 microseconds, following its migration to the MillenniumIT technology system.
20 October 2010
The London Stock Exchange is to start letting third party vendors co-locate at its data centre as it bids to cash in on increasingly valuable high-frequency trading business.
18 October 2010
A pair of Norwegian day traders have been convicted of cracking the algorithms of US broker Timber Hill and manipulating share prices, according to the Financial Times.
14 October 2010
European Commissioner for internal markets and services Michel Barnier has vowed to work with US counterparts to increase high-frequency trading regulation, says Reuters.
12 October 2010
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