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News/Trade execution
CME Group is being sued by three users, accused of selling sneak peeks at order information to high-frequency traders.
14 April 2014
Wading into the raging debate about the impact of high-frequency trading on stock market investing, Charles Schwab has decried the practice as a "growing cancer" that needs to be excised.
04 April 2014
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating whether high-speed traders are breaking the law by acting on non-public information ahead of the wider markets.
01 April 2014
In a sure sign of the growing business interest in crypto-currencies on Wall Street, the Security Traders Association of New York (Stany) has decided to accept payment in bitcoin for tickets to its Annual Conference and Dinner.
31 March 2014
Thomson Reuters is proposing changes to spot matching rules on its FX trading platform in an effort to ward off 'phantom pricing' tactics deployed by high-speed trading firms.
25 March 2014
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Arun Aggarwal, managing director, UK and Ireland, Swift, discusses the themes, speakers and attendees for the upcoming Swift Business Forum in London.
US exchange operator Nasdaq is rethinking its FinqCloud venture with e-commerce giant Amazon after the business failed to gain sufficient traction with potential customers, according to the Financial Times.
24 March 2014
Beau Alexander, head of product management for SunGard's Valdi discusses whether the current round of risk management strategies and regulations are making the markets safer.
New York attorney general Eric Schneiderman has called for tough regulations to tackle practices such as co-location, which he claims give high-frequency traders unfair advantages and distort the market.
18 March 2014
Institutional trading network Liquidnet is moving into the fixed income market through the acquisition of bond trading platform Vega-Chi. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Technology innovation in equity markets has changed direction as the race-to-zero latency and the pursuit of high-frequency trading cools, says capital markets consultancy GreySpark partners
13 March 2014
London Stock Exchange-owned fixed income marketplace MTS has agreed to buy Bonds.com, a US-based platform for the electronic trading of corporate and emerging market bonds.
06 March 2014
Jayme Fagas, Global Head of Valuations & Transparency with Thomson Reuters talks about the difficulties in valuing illiquid and OTC assets in accordance with IFRS and AIFMD, the challenges associated with valuations and transparency and the best practices associated in undertaking due diligence audits of data vendors.
Paul Hawtin, CEO of sentiment-analysis investment managers Cayman Atlantic, talks about the firm's social-media basis, the kind of data being used and the returns it's seeing.
Bloomberg has added social sentiment analytics to its Professional desktop tool to provide traders with an early heads-up on market-moving Twitter trending topics.
03 March 2014
Subin Paul, solutions architect at Oracle, examines why many banks still struggle to find a true, enterprise-wide view of risk.
27 February 2014
Eighteen of Wall Street's top banks have agreed to suspend their participation in surveys of analyst sentiment amid concerns that the practice gives high-speed traders an unfair advantage over ordinary investors.
26 February 2014
Business Wire, the corporate news release distribution company owned by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, is to stop selling its potentially market-moving content directly to high-frequency trading firms.
21 February 2014
Electronic trading systems only managed to slightly increase their share of global fixed-income trading volume in 2013, accounting for a quarter of total volume executed, according to a report from Greenwich Associates.
20 February 2014
Marion Leslie, MD, Pricing and Reference Services at Thomson Reuters looks at the impact of regulations, the need for transparency and what the future holds for the pricing and reference data marketplace.
18 February 2014
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