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May 2, 2012 02:53 PM
Redkite Financial Markets, a specialist provider of market surveillance systems today announced that it generated the world’s first ever ESMA alert. The alert was generated at 9:05am this morning, on the first day of European trading, following the May 1 deadline for firms to comply with ESMA’s guidelines on systems and controls in an automated trading environment.
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March 27, 2012 04:07 PM
TABB Group announced today that the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission selected Larry Tabb, founder and CEO, to assist their CFTC Technical Advisory Committee as a member of its Subcommittee of Automated and High Frequency Trading (HFT) to create a definition for high frequency trading within the context of automating trading systems.
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March 14, 2012 10:37 AM
HFT seems to be a perennial bogeyman. One of the most common questions I’m asked when traveling in Asia is what I think of HFT. But here in the world’s most financially sophisticated city, I would have thought the last discussion of HFT’s morality took place in 2008.
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March 1, 2012 11:04 AM
The move comes in response to the growing number of high frequency traders on the exchange that use algorithms as part of their trading strategy. There are concerns that the large amount of orders which are cancelled or altered are having a negative impact on the exchange’s network, slowing down trading speeds for other users.
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February 1, 2012 11:18 AM
In a speech at the New York Law School on 31 January, Republican CFTC commissioner Scott O’Malia proposed the formation of a subcommittee specifically charged with identifying and defining high frequency trading in futures, swaps and options.
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December 15, 2011 06:12 PM
Hit by the growing political and economic crisis racing across Europe and dealing with sustained market volatility and impending MiFID II regulation reform, as many as 75% of all European equity buy-side traders say they are adjusting their trading strategies. With performance and services from bulge-bracket core brokers under pressure, rival brokers are eager to step forward and grab market share.
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November 30, 2011 11:06 AM
Global regulators are once again under pressure to provide an explanation of the whipsaw volatility in the equity markets. There is growing vexation among traders and investors.
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November 30, 2011 10:58 AM
The European Commission’s MiFID II reforms will be one of the biggest shake-ups to the financial industry in years, particularly in terms of technology. We discussed this with Pat Phillips, practice director at Xceed, to hear what implications the changes have for trading firms.
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November 22, 2011 02:31 PM
The left-wing French Senate has approved plans for a tax on automated transactions, in order to put a brake on what it sees as excessive growth in high frequency trading.
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November 14, 2011 01:25 PM
There’s no doubt that today's high speed capital markets and cross product, cross market trade volumes mean regulation struggles to keep up with changes in the market.
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October 27, 2011 01:20 PM
We’ve recently seen HFT back in the spotlight due to the release of the European Commission’s MIFID II proposals and a report from the IOSCO, both of which target low-latency trading for increased scrutiny and regulation.
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October 17, 2011 12:19 PM
A meeting of regulators hosted by the Financial Services Authority and Securities Exchange Commission has advanced plans for more co-ordinated monitoring of high frequency trading.
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September 28, 2011 01:03 PM
Reports by the Bank of International Settlements and the Tokyo Stock Exchange refute claims that high frequency trading has detrimental effects on the markets.
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September 14, 2011 11:21 AM
The European Union is considering banning certain algorithmic and high frequency trading strategies under market abuse rules, according to a report from Bloomberg
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September 7, 2011 11:11 AM
New Research Examines Effect of MiFID II Implementation, Proposed Eurex/Liffe Merger and Rise of New Electronic Trading Platforms on European Equity Options Market Structure
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September 5, 2011 07:46 AM
In the volatile days of August a steady rain of accusations fell. High frequency trading bore the brunt of abuse for the market’s irrational behavior from pundits and media alike.
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September 2, 2011 01:36 PM
Reuters have reported that both the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority have issued requests to high frequency trading firms for some of their most sensitive data; their algorithms.
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August 30, 2011 11:01 AM
EU Ministers are meeting today to discuss a transaction tax which could see high frequency trading driven out of certain markets. President Sarkozy believes proceeds from the tax could help fight poverty and climate change, but there is a risk they could have serious economic consequences.
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August 23, 2011 03:05 PM
StreamBase Systems today announced the results of its “FX Trading and Technology Trends in 2011” study.
News Wire
August 22, 2011 10:50 AM
The review of MiFID II will be released in late October and Kay Swinburne has been actively lobbying the EU on the best possible regulatory framework.Kay is using TradeTech Nordic as a platform to provide first-hand clarity on the details of the legislative proposal.
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August 22, 2011 10:40 AM
The market turmoil of the last few weeks has left many fearing that we’re on our way to a repeat of 2008’s crash. With stocks plummeting on both sides of the Atlantic, there is a pervading nervousness in the market about where the current trend will ultimately lead.
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August 22, 2011 09:23 AM
The news reported by Reuters earlier this week that the Securities Exchange Commission had been issuing subpoenas to high frequency trading firms, in addition to the recent voting in favour of systems to monitor high-volume traders, has raised concerns over future regulation.
News Wire
August 16, 2011 11:04 AM
OTC Derivatives Firms Will Spend $3.4 Billion on Clearing and Back-Office Technology in 2011 Meeting the Need for Low Latency, High Throughput and Highly Reliable Messaging
