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Industry issues
Wed, 2010-03-03 14:14
End in sight for European post-trade data impasse
The London Stock Exchange is considering the possibility of joining NYSE Euronext in unbundling post-trade data, a move that would help to clear one of the key obstacles to a consolidated tape for Europe. read more »
Wed, 2010-02-24 10:51
SMARTS upgrades broker tool as surveillance use grows
SMARTS Group, a provider of market surveillance systems, has added a new alert to its SMARTS.broker product to help identify the manipulative trading practices of layering and spoofing. read more »
Mon, 2010-02-01 14:03
Bright year ahead for equity markets – The TRADE poll
Equity market activity is tipped to bounce back this year, according to the latest TRADE poll, with almost two thirds of market participants looking forward to a more positive trading environment in 2010. read more »
Tue, 2010-01-26 12:33
Investit’s new hire to tackle buy-side challenges
Investment management consultancy Investit has appointed Alistair Byrne as a principal of its investment practice. read more »
Mon, 2010-01-25 14:50
Market recovery to support volumes in 2010, but regulators take aim
While signs of recovery from the financial crisis may provide some respite to liquidity-deprived equity traders, new regulation could result in yet another dramatic shift to the trading landscape in 2010. read more »
Mon, 2010-01-18 15:20
Self-sufficiency booms in declining markets
In 2009, buy-side traders’ mastery of electronic trading came under the spotlight as they put measures in place to deal with an almost unprecedented trading environment. read more »
Mon, 2010-01-11 13:40
A high-tech response to low volumes
Although the depths of the financial crisis led to a frenzy of share trading activity in Q4 2008, equity traders woke up to a different world in 2009. Lower volumes and values combined to create treacherous trading conditions in which the optimum execution strategy was rarely certain. read more »
Wed, 2009-12-23 15:58
2000-2009: The decade of electronic trading
Whatever else its legacy might be, the noughties was a decade that revolutionised how the buy-side executed trades in the global equity markets. To put the scale and nature of the shift from voice-broked to electronic trading into context, theTRADEnews.com asked six influential industry figures to chart the milestones reached and the benefits achieved, as well as the challenges to come. read more »
Mon, 2009-11-30 11:49
High-frequency gaming fears persist – The TRADE Poll
While over half of respondents to the latest The TRADE Poll consider the biggest impact of high-frequency trading on institutional equity markets to be a welcome boost to liquidity, a significant minority are still worried about the risk of being gamed. read more »
