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As regulators consider equity market structure, a few changes in tick size or taxation could spell trouble for investors.

Small options market MIAX trades ownership stake for order flow in deal with six big firms.

Read about Nathalie Texier-Guillot, head of equity and hybrid derivative solutions sales, Citi, one of the 2013 winners of the Women on Wall Street Industry Trailblazer of the Year Award. Texier-Guillot knows setting an example for young women to follow means pushing onward and upward through the unique challenges facing women-such as motherhood.

The Chinese Brokerage roiled the markets in mid-August and the punishment was swift and severe. Here are some risk mitigation lessons to protect your trading desk.

Despite lower trading volumes, Philadelphia-based Janney Montgomery Scott is building up. And this is no jump on the electronic trading bandwagon, but rather an old-school buildup of seats on the trading and research desks.

Investment banks spent $5B last year on equity research used by asset managers, according to a report by Frost Consulting & Advisory and Quark Software.

The brokerage firm has selected SunGard's VPM solution to service its client's accounting and reporting needs.

Traders Magazine spoke with David Lauer, a former high-frequency trader from Citadel who now serves as architecture technology consultant for Verdande Technology about the need for dynamic kill switches and just who should be in control of them.

Read about Bina Kalola, head of strategic investments, global equities, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, one of the 2013 winners of the Women on Wall Street Mentor of the Year Award. Being a mentor is the responsibility of every leader within a firm, Kalola says.

The buyside trader is better off these days compared to his sellside counterpart - both financially and qualitatively, according to a recent survey.