Saturday, May 4, 2024

SEC Bogged Down on Options Rules

SEC Bogged Down on Options Rules
The Securities and Exchange Commission is unlikely to take action any time soon on two of the most important outstanding rule proposals affecting the options industry. According to Heather Seidel, an associate director in the SEC's Division of Trading and Markets, the...

Big Firms Seek “Fast” Money

Big Firms Seek “Fast” Money
Bulge bracket firms are looking to get a foothold in the high frequency trading business as a result of proposed new regulations that will alter the playing field for sponsored access.

Nasdaq Price Pilot Causes Its Market Share to Decrease: ITG Report

Nasdaq Price Pilot Causes Its Market Share to Decrease: ITG Report
The law of unintended consequences is hitting NasdaqOMX- right where it hurts in the volume basket. How? By its own hand and the recently enacted price pilot program designed to boost trading on the exchanges.

Cracks Open in Dark Pool Defense With Schneiderman Barclays Suit

Cracks Open in Dark Pool Defense With Schneiderman Barclays Suit
Last October, managers told an employee in Barclays Plcs trading unit to keep from clients a report showing the bank routed most of their dark pool orders to itself, according to the New York attorney general.

Sell Side Backs Regulation to Halt Rise in Market Data Fees

Sell Side Backs Regulation to Halt Rise in Market Data Fees
Nearly half of brokerage execs surveyed by Acuiti say data costs are 'far too high'.
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McKinsey Highlights Five Shifts in Corporate and Investment Banking

McKinsey Highlights Five Shifts in Corporate and Investment Banking
New market structures and a technology-led ‘art of the possible’ are two of the five big shifts.

BoA Reports Q3 Results, Shows Responsible Growth

BoA Reports Q3 Results, Shows Responsible Growth
BoA produced a 50% ROTC and a 90 basis point ROA in Q3 2022.

Short Interest in Decline

Short Interest in Decline
Short interest ratios have been on the decline since peaking in 2016, Nasdaq's Phil Mackintosh notes.

Is COVID-19 Upending Offshore Outsourcing?

Is COVID-19 Upending Offshore Outsourcing?
The pandemic has exposed the dangers of entrusting critical internal systems to non-U.S. firms, Vestmark's Ryan Carter writes.

Options ATS to Expand

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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