ESMA consults on systems and controls for highly automated trading
20 Jul. 2011 - ESMA publishes today a consultation paper, accompanied by a press release setting out its proposals for detailed guidelines for trading platforms, investment firms and competent...
View ArticleLarge trader system only the beginning SEC
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View ArticleBAML offers high-speed, SEC-compliant market access
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View ArticleA High-Frequency Tax: Paving the Way for a Fair Market, or a Roadblock to...
With ever-accelerating markets and a growing need for transparency, federal regulators are considering a tax to pay for surveillance—and slow down traders.read more...
View ArticleSEC Will Track Biggest Traders Activity
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View ArticleHigh-speed changes to FX trading
ELECTRONIC trading is not a new development. Nasdaq, the first electronic exchange, is more than 40 years old. But advancing technology has slashed latency. On the NYSE, 10 years ago an order took 20...
View ArticleAutomated stock trading poses fraud risk, researcher says
(cnet News) An emphasis on speed and a lack of security makes automated trading in financial markets ripe for exploitation and fraud, a security researcher warned today.read more...
View ArticleCross-asset class trading platforms: dream or reality?
(FOW - Roger Aitken) As traders diversify to realise greater opportunities for arbitrage and move into new markets, the demand for cross-asset class trading capabilities has never been greater. Roger...
View ArticleEx-Goldman trader departs Getco
(Financial News - Tim Cave) A former Goldman Sachs derivatives trader has left Getco Europe, the London-based division of the pioneering US market-making and high frequency trading firm, as it...
View ArticleWhen Milliseconds Make Millions: Why Wall Street Programmers Earn the Big Bucks
(ADT - David Ramel) David Ramel follows up his "Highest Paid Programmers" article with a look inside the world of high-frequency trading, where coders earn top dollars and even nanoseconds count.read...
View ArticleBloomberg enters HFT arms race
(Financial News - Tim Cave) Bloomberg is planning to expand its range of data services to attract more business from high-frequency trading firms, according to sources with knowledge of the...
View ArticleEsma flexes its muscles with HFT rules
(Financial News - Tim Cave) Practitioners of high-frequency trading have become accustomed to the glare of regulators, but the level of scrutiny the activity has received over recent months has been...
View ArticleGetco Europe profits continue to slide
(Financial News - Tim Cave) Profits in the European division of Getco, the US-based high-frequency trading firm, fell for a second successive year in a sign of the challenges facing the group in...
View ArticleAdvantage Futures Launches New Microsite Dedicated to Algorithmic Trading
CHICAGO, Aug. 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Advantage Futures launched www.AlgoAdvantage.com, a new microsite designed to educate traders about the benefits of automated trading. The dedicated microsite...
View ArticleNot so fast - The risks posed by high-frequency trading
(The Economist - Buttonwood) FASTER is not always better. Who would want a doctor’s appointment that lasted 30 seconds or a whisky that had been matured for a week? But when it comes to the...
View ArticleMexico Derivatives Market Sees High-Frequency Currency Trading Soon
MEXICO CITY (Dow Jones)--Mexico's derivatives market could see its first high-frequency trading of its dollar futures contract in coming months as the local market enters the second phase of its tie-up...
View ArticleNYSE Euronext opens up co-lo services
(Financial Times - Philip Stafford) NYSE Euronext has opened up its key European data centre near London to allow third-party co-location service providers to conduct trades without passing through the...
View ArticleNYSE buys Metabit in Asia tech push
(Financial Times - Telis Demos) NYSE Technologies, the trading infrastructure services arm of the exchange group, has acquired Japanese group Metabit as it seeks to establish a foothold to supply...
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