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DLT, Beyond Settlement: A Roundtable Write-up

Sister publication Global Trading sponsored a Thought Leadership Roundtable entitled DLT: Beyond Settlement. The event took place October 3 at the ASX office in Sydney.

Traders Poll

As the retail brokers have raced to lower commissions to zero for trades, will this translate into a profound change in the institutional equity marketplace?

Yes

40%

No

32%

A slight change at best

28%

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Managers Optimize Fee Negotiation Structures to Align with Pricing Philosophy

Fee compression requires institutional asset managers to adopt flexible pricing practices, says one market consultancy.

BestXStats Adds TCA Module to Platform

The TCA Module is fully customizable and allows the user to choose from a variety of filtering and grouping mechanisms to truly create a bespoke report.

Plato Partnership Introduces BabelFish Analytics' ‘ClarityReveal' TCA as ‘Plato-Clarity'

By using Plato-Clarity, European buy and sell-side market participants will be able to better understand algorithmic trading challenges.

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Structural Changes in Canada

More change is coming to the equity trading markets of the Great White North.

Omega ATS's New Lynx Venue Opens for Business

Canada's Omega ATS has opened its second trading venue in the Great White North -Lynx ATS. After receiving final approval and making all the tweaks and getting its trading technology in order, the new venue is officially open for business.

PDQ Opens New Institutional Desk

PDQ ATS is looking to get into the institutional trading business and has started an institutional equities group to get the buyside's business and its bigger trades. And it has hired two new ex-exchange pros to help get the new venture going.

The Dark Pool Rises

The dark markets have become so efficient that the costs of execution and market impact are lower than at the display markets, where take fees are highest and market impact is most significant.

Dark Pool Trade Size Down

Traders believe dark pools have entered a "mature phase" and use them to avoid "toxic liquidity" from high-frequency trading firms, but the size of trades in those pools is getting smaller. These are among a few findings from a new report published by market research firm Celent.

Fragmentation Stirs Ire

Industry professionals took the opportunity to gripe about the proliferation of stock exchanges at this year's Security Industry and Financial Markets Association market structure conference.