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Direct Access Partners Shuts Down
May 23, 2013 – Direct Access Partners has shut down. The institutional brokerage stopped handling orders two days ago, sources tell Traders Magazine, after its clearing firm, Goldman Sachs, stopped clearing its trades.
Citadel Continues OTC Desk Expansion with Five New Hires
May 23, 2013 – Wholesaler Citadel must believe that things are looking up in the trading industry. It has hired four new market makers on its Over the Counter trading desk and a broker-dealer sales exec, further bulking up the firm's trading business.
FINRA Wins DirectEdge Surveillance
May 23, 2013 – FINRA reached an agreement with Direct Edge to monitor its two stock exchanges, EDGX and EDGA, for trading abuses. The deal gives FINRA oversight of 90 percent of volume.
FINRA Considering Rule to Require More Dark Pool Data Disclosure
May 23, 2013 – A Wall Street regulator is considering new rules to shine light on dark trading after the largest U.S. dark pool operator stopped sharing data on the volume of its trades.
TRADERS ON THE MOVE: Merriman Bulks Up
May 23, 2013 – Merriman Capital brought on two trading execs from teh now defunct ThinkEquity Partners. Jack Monopoli will head advisory trading and market making. Bill Southern joined as a sales trader. Plus moves that matter at Maxim, Macquarie and Nasdaq.
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Fund Fight
May 1, 2013 – For years, exchange-traded fund trading volume surged. Now, it’s slumping too. Nasdaq, NYSE and BATS are now slugging it out with incentives, new order types and a new ETF-focused exchange to resuscitate trading.
At Odds Over Increments
Joining Forces
Inside Trading
Briefs
May 1, 2013 – Here are this month's Editor's Picks for the best and most newsworthy stories covered by Traders Magazine online news. These stories appear in abbreviated form. To read full length items, please visit our wesbite at www.tradersmagazine.com.
Block Trading, In Your Hand
Liquidnet To Trade Private Shares
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Demystifying Dodd-Frank
March 2, 2012 – Commissioner Scott O'Malia of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is on a mission. He says the process of writing new over-the-counter derivative contract rules needs more transparency. Over the past year he has repeatedly called for more roundtables and public comment on how rules are written. Why is this important? Because these rules, among other things, will determine which OTC derivative contracts must go through a clearing process and which ones can continue to use the old bilateral, dealer-to-dealer model.
Defining the Alpha Code
Word for Word with Nick Nielson
Rules and Regs
SEC Division Turns to Data Geeks
April 1, 2013 – After a rocky few years of flash crashes, trading glitches and botched IPOs, the Securities and Exchange Commission may finally be making headway in its battle with the streaming reams of disparate and diffused electronic data that define the modern U.S. securities trading markets.
SEC Eyes Order Type Development
SEC Pushes Anti-Glitch Regulation
Tech Notes
Looking Forward, Back at Risks
May 1, 2013 – Omaha, Neb.-based PrairieSmarts is rolling out software that looks at risks faced by securities in both the past and future.
Debate on EMS/ OMS Merger
ITG Adds Anti-Gaming to Dark Pool
Buyside Snapshot
Defining the Alpha Code
May 1, 2013 – The Boston Company’s David Brooks, along with his fellow traders, is spending more time mining and analyzing data to find lesser-known stocks that can provide clients with above-average alpha and boost returns.
Big Trades on Small Firms
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