Trading & Execution Archive

The US market infrastructure is on the verge of managing a capacity of three million quotes a second, but the growing disparity between quotes and filled orders will weaken the market, believes one high-frequency trading expert. read more>

Final rules on how OTC derivatives will be traded under Dodd-Frank could be revealed next week, with the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission scheduled to discuss key reforms. read more>

Institutional investors may gain easy access to a bonanza of equities execution data as the Americas buy-side execution working group of standards body FIX Protocol Limited examined whether to adapt its messaging protocol and execution venue reporting guidelines to support data on where orders were routed, but not filled. read more>

Market confidence has been dwindling since the 'flash crash,' but a new report shows the recent Twitter fiasco that sent markets on a free fall last month had relatively little impact on participants' outlook. read more>

Research firm Aite Group has issued a report that concludes electronic institutional trading models are set to increase their participation in the US corporate bond trading markets. The firm predicts that electronic trading will account for 40% of the market this year compared to 30% in 2012. read more>

A breakdown in the consensus over market structure has left investors confused in conditions of "near savagery" as they scour the margins for advantage, according to California-based Jones Trading. read more>

Barclays has introduced a 'toxicity framework' to its LX dark pool that it claims makes predatory trading easier to identify. read more>

Dark trading in Canada is set to recover slightly over the next year, as market participants acclimatise to dark pool rules introduced last year, according to a new TABB report. read more>

The collapse of MF Global could strengthen US laws and accelerate the implementation of MIFID II after a judge in New York last week approved a bankruptcy plan for the collapsed brokerage, according to buy-side firms. read more>

The year's strong opening by US equity markets in January was cause for celebration, but it wasn't enough to drive overall first-quarter volumes higher than Q1 2012, even though a number of benchmark indices hit new highs. read more>