Buy-side owned block trading venue sees record quarter
Dark pool led by the former head of equity trading Americas at Blackrock sets quarterly record for total shares traded.
Tag: Block trading
Bats LIS platform attracts more than 100 buy-side firms
Bats sees record growth with more than €10 billion traded since the launch of its block trading platform less than 10 months ago.
LSE’s Turquoise growth stumbles as MiFID II looms
With MiFID II expected to see a surge in block trading activity, Turquoise’s decline in value traded in the first half of this year comes as a surprise.
Analytics specialist big xyt launches large-in-scale liquidity tracker
Liquidity Cockpit uses tick data to aid in search for block liquidity.
Instinet buys block trading ATS from State Street
BlockCross ATS will help Instinet’s clients in the pursuit of best execution.
Traders not anticipating shift towards block trading post-MiFID II
Survey finds traders do not believe MiFID II will not necessarily see them trade large block sizes.
Turquoise Plato block trading reaches €188 million record
Daily value traded record up 14% from previous record set in February this year.
Plato and LiquidMetrix target block trading performance
LiquidMetrix’s research team will provide TCA to develop methods of assessing block trade performance with Plato.
JP Morgan, Credit Suisse and BAML go live with Bats block trading
Bats LIS platform reaches record volumes as large sell-side institutions go live and it’s officially launched for the buy-side.
Nasdaq plans auctions-on-deman to enable large trades in Nordics
Service aims to meet MiFID II transparency requirements while providing way to execute larger blocks.