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ISE Suggests Displaying Flash Orders to All

The ISE raises the idea of disseminating flash order information not to a limited audience but to everyone.

Tethys Helps Options Traders Navigate Rebates, Fees

There's help available for volatility traders to find rebates and reduce fees at options exchanges. Execution management system, algo and analytics developer Tethys Technology developed an analytics-based feature on its Execta EMS platform that locates the highest transaction rebates, or lowest transaction fees, for orders to options exchanges with maker-taker pricing models.

Options ATS to Expand

Ballista Holdings expects to increase its staffing by 25 percent and beef up its disaster recovery back-up systems after completing a round of funding.

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C2 Will Combine Market Models

The Chicago Board Options Exchange is offering details about the operation of its new options exchange, C2.

Citi Opens Up Options Router

Citi will give its institutional customers direct access to its smart-order router for options trading.

Cover Story: Weathering the Storm

Last Year was a transformative one for Nasdaq OMX. Its flagship stock exchange lost market share. But Nasdaq rebounded as it diversified through acquisitions, allowing it to enter new lines of business, expand into new markets and to offer new products.

Philly Options Changes Its Stripes

Nasdaq OMX PHLX is experimenting with maker-taker pricing. As of Jan. 4, the options exchange began paying specialists to quote SPY options if their quotes result in trades. It also started charging exchange customers who hit or take those quotes.

2009 Review: Penny Pilot Expanded

As it was in the cash market, so it will be in options. The SEC in September approved a plan by NYSE Arca to expand trading in penny increments to nearly 400 options classes.

CBOE and ISE Fight Flash Ban

The CBOE and ISE are fighting a regulatory push to ban flash orders in the marketplace.

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• Options ATS to Expand
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