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Options Industry Blasts IRS Proposal
May 17, 2012 – The U.S. Securities Market Coalition, a lobbying organization that represents the options exchanges and the Options Clearing Corporation, the Chicago Board Options Exchange, and the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, have all advised the U.S. Treasury to back away from imposing a dividend withholding tax on foreign options traders.
Nomura Seeks Closer Integration With Instinet
May 16, 2012 – Tokyo-based Nomura Group is more tightly integrating its Instinet subsidiary into the brokerage giant, and the company plans to rebrand its entire Japanese electronic trading platform as Instinet.
A Survivor's Tale
May 16, 2012 – Sometimes the worst situations can create an opportunity. For former trader Victor Rodriguez, his kidnapping 14 years ago in his native Venezuela caused him to flee and migrate to the United States.
New Canadian ‘Trade-At’ Rule Gets Mixed Reviews
May 15, 2012 – Canadian regulators have passed new rules governing dark pools in Canada, eliciting mixed responses from market participants, with no discernible consensus from either the buyside or sellside, or from the dark pools themselves.
Delta One Announces New Data for ETF Platform
May 15, 2012 – Delta One Data, a provider of exchange-traded fund data and indexes, is launching two new data base modules for its EFT aggregation platform to help buyside traders see more data quickly.
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Cover Story: Keeping Watch
May 1, 2012 – Using sophisticated monitoring and analysis techniques, bulge bracket brokers are starting to build profiles of the traders in their dark pools. They know who's naughty and who's nice, and they are using their newfound information to shore up the integrity of their trading systems.
Narrowing Spreads for Illiquids
Inside Trading
Electronic Trading Pushes Foward
May 1, 2012 – Electronic trading is on the rise outside the United States and the Eurozone. Several countries, such as Japan and Brazil, are seeing their markets move into the electronic trading realm as investors seek higher investment returns abroad.
ETF Volume, Correlation Down
Veteran-Owned Firm Enlists Street
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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.
Trading Runs at RiverFront
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Brokers Want Changes to Volcker
May 1, 2012 – Big banks and broker-dealers are seeking changes to the Volcker rule that will make it easier for them to comply with its requirements and still allow them to execute for their clients.
SEC to Study Tick Size for Small Caps
Manipulation or Market Making?
Tech Notes
Risk Checks Hit Nano Redline
May 1, 2012 – Redline Trading Solutions, a provider of high-speed trading products for high-frequency traders, is offering brokers pre-trade risk check software that performs in less than one microsecond.
Wolverine Launches Homegrown Algo
JPMorgan Offers Own Speedy Risk Checks
Buyside Snapshot
Trading Runs at RiverFront
May 1, 2012 – The James River runs right past Rob Glownia's office, reminding the head trader for RiverFront Investment Group every morning that, like the river, trading is dynamic, whether the job is managing investors' daily cash flows or longer-term trading strategies.
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Wall Street Women: A Celebration of Excellence
On Nov. 10, nearly 200 attendees gathered in New York to honor the 15 award winners in Traders Magazine's inaugural event: Wall Street Women: A Celebration of Excellence. The winners were nominated by their peers and selected by an advisory committee of women within the industry.Here are interviews with four of the winners: Sylvia Rocco of BofA Merrill Lynch, Nanette Buziak of ING Investments, Christian Kelerchian of Goldman Sachs Asset Management and Melissa Hinmon of Turner Investments. The keynote speaker was Jeanne Murtaugh.
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