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Lime and Lek Rail Against Naked Access
July 2, 2009 – Lime Brokerage and Lek Securities, which offer direct access to market centers, recently sent letters to the SEC complaining that naked access is a bad practice.
Small Broker Looks to Go Big Time with ICAP Investment
July 1, 2009 – Two executives, with backing from interdealer broker ICAP, are set to transform a 30-year-old New York-based broker into a bigger player in the equities and derivatives space.
Commentary: The European Version of Obama's Financial Regulation Proposal
June 29, 2009 – Part V of President Barack Obama's proposal for financial services regulation reform acknowledges the fact of our global economy: 'Without consistent supervision and regulation, financial institutions will tend to move their activities to jurisdictions with looser standards, creating a race to the bottom and intensifying systemic risk for the entire financial global system.'
Featured Articles
Two Birds, One Stone
June 2, 2009 – Kill two birds with one stone. That's the pitch from some of the industry's top suppliers of algorithms to those looking to trade more than one asset class simultaneously.
Uptick Redux
Gloves Off
Inside Trading
ISE's Pricing for ETFs and Indexes Gives Investors a Free Ride
June 2, 2009 – The International Securities Exchange, in a pre-emptive move to protect its market share, last month eliminated its customer fees for options on exchange-traded funds and indexes.
BOX to Target Large-Lot Trades
Pipeline Buys 3D Markets for Options
People
People On The Move
June 2, 2009 – Chris Concannon joined New York-based Virtu Financial, a newly formed proprietary trading firm, as a partner. Previously, he led Nasdaq OMX Group's transaction services unit, which oversees the parent company's U.S. equities and options markets, as well as the European multilateral trading facility. He joined the exchange in 2003 from Instinet Clearing Services.
People On the Move
People On The Move
Rules and Regs
Options Exchanges Ready New Linkage Plan
June 2, 2009 – The country's options exchanges are set to scrap their centralized order-routing system and replace it with a collection of individual, private linkages this summer.
SEC's Short-Selling Decision Nears
Short Sales: SEC Expected to Rule on Fails
Tech Notes
Linedata Amplifies LongView
June 2, 2009 – Linedata Services wants to make it easier for buyside traders to send their orders to several execution venues simultaneously.
Bloomberg Offers Electronic RFQs for Options
Vhayu's Next TCA Step
Vendor Solutions
Canada’s Smallest Exchange Goes Hi-Tech
November 6, 2008 – The Canadian National Stock Exchange, which just changed its name from the Canadian Trading and Quotation System, has migrated trading to the system used by sister company Pure Trading.
Naked Short Sale Ban Fails in South Dakota
Change: The Election's Effect on Securities Regulation
Clearing
New Kid on Clearing Block
February 16, 2009 – Brokerages are paying too much to the industry utility to clear cash equity trades. That will be Nasdaq's argument to shareholders and clients as it gears up in the domestic market to become a major player in the clearing business. That means it will bump heads with the Depository Trust and Clearing Corp. (DTCC) and its subsidiaries.
Europe Awaits Competition
Watch that Keystroke!
Buyside Snapshot
A Trader's Next Step
June 2, 2009 – The market run-up of April into early May was good news for Peter Cocuzza, an equity trading veteran of 28 years. A rising market typically means more trading volume, and for someone looking for work, as Cocuzza is, that's a godsend. "I'm starting to get the feeling that things are starting to turn," said the former senior trader at Oppenheimer Funds.
Split over Short-Sale Rules
A Trader's Trial by Fire
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