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The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is eyeing new rules under the Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation to safeguard against high frequency trading disruptions to US financial markets.
08 October 2010
Internalised trading engines at brokers and market makers have been portrayed as the 'real villains' of the May 6 flash crash by Sal Arnuk, co-founder of high frequency trading group Themis.
05 October 2010
The UK Treasury is sponsoring a probe into high-frequency trading amid fears that computer-generated problems could hit financial stability, affecting the whole economy, according to the Financial Times.
30 September 2010
Equiduct Systems has won a contract to provide the technology infrastructure for Spain's first MTF, Plataforma Alternativa de Valores Españoles (Pave).
Nasdaq OMX has introduced 'volatility guards' for its Nordic and Baltic markets, ensuring that trading will be paused in stocks that see a sharp price change.
27 September 2010
Mantara, a high-frequency trading technology provider, says it has received an unspecified strategic equity investment from UBS.
15 September 2010
A small US high frequency trading firm and several of its employees have been fined a total of $2.26 million for manipulating stock prices through a technique called "layering".
13 September 2010
RBS Global Banking and Markets Group is consolidating its trading desks onto one floor as it prepares for an upsurge in electronic equities trading in Europe over the next three years.
10 September 2010
Bloomberg Tradebook is seeking to address buy side wariness of dark pools and thwart high frequency gaming by showing traders where their orders are being filled in real time.
31 August 2010
High-frequency trading firm Infinium Capital Management is at the centre of an investigation by CME Group into whether a $1 surge in oil prices earlier this year was the result of one of its algos going haywire.
26 August 2010
A group of Spanish "financial executives" say they will launch the country's first multilateral trading facility (MTF) early next year.
25 August 2010
Plus Markets has signed for market data and connectivity systems from Algo Technologies, with a deal for the vendor's matching engine also in the pipeline, as part of a wide-ranging restructuring and cost-reduction exercise.
Deutsche Bank is to offer dark pool trading in Hong Kong via an internal crossing network and liquidity-searching algorithm that will file client orders across multiple off-exchange trading venues in Asia.
23 August 2010
CME Group has moved its Globex electronic platform into a new data centre that the exchange operator says will allow it to grow trading volumes for at least a decade, according to Dow Jones.
20 August 2010
Norwegian police have arrested two men accused of cracking the algorithms of US broker Timber Hill and manipulating share prices, according to local press reports.
18 August 2010
An over-reliance on computer systems and high-frequency trading were the biggest contributors to the 6 May flash crash that saw a dizzying plunge in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, according to a poll of retail financial advisors.
12 August 2010
Deutsche Bank has been hit with an "admonition" by the Osaka Securities Exchange over a problem with a trading algorithm in June that saw sell orders worth Y16.7 trillion made by mistake.
11 August 2010
Goldman Sachs' plan to spin off its proprietary trading business has run into trouble because the investment bank does not want to give the new entity access to its specially designed computer language, according to CNBC.
06 August 2010
Electronic trading and brokerage giant Instinet has launched a dark liquidity pool for US listed options.
03 August 2010
Over half of capital markets firms do not use real-time market surveillance and monitoring tools despite a general recognition in the industry that greater transparency is needed to deal with abuse and irregular activity, according to a survey from Progress Software.
27 July 2010
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