Brokerage

In this week's FLASH, Traders Magazine looks back to this year's Instinet Annual Quant Conference.

IEX Group Inc., a five-month-old trading platform designed to address perceived flaws in the U.S. stock market, has won over one of the worlds biggest traders: Goldman Sachs Group Inc.

What do Cabrera Capital Markets, JonesTrading, LaBranche Financial Services and WJB Capital Group have in common? Over the past several months, each has opened an overnight trading desk in the U.S. to trade foreign stocks in real-time.

Nearly half of hedge funds said they would evaluate being market makers in certain securities as banks pull back from some markets, according to a new survey from State Street.

So, who are the Top Guns of the brokerage world?

Trevor Daughney of Exabeam says retail investors should never reuse a password, and they should utilize a password manager.

The integration will address the communication needs of traders.

EdgeTrade, a small, New York-based direct-market-access broker geared to the buyside, is angling for sellside clients. The firm expects Regulation NMS and the growth of dark liquidity to make that job easier, as brokers realize they need smart order routing to get better executions.

Dmitry Kay, Co-head of EM FX Trading, Europe at UBS discusses the challenges in achieving best execution in turbulent markets.

The SEC is expected to make permanent an emergency order it instituted last September to reduce naked short selling. The temporary rule, known as Rule 204T, is due to expire this summer.