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Finextra TV/Algorithmic trading
Scott Atwell FPL Global Steering Committee Co-Chair talks with Finextra about the global take-up of FIXatdl one year on.
07 March 2011
With eight liquidity partners, Quote MTF plans on targeting passive liquidity in the market.
06 March 2011
News/Algorithmic trading
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
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
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