Ten years ago the debate between fragmentation and centralization was all the rage on Wall Street. And it still is, to a degree, today.

In this week's FLASHBACK FRIDAY lookback, we revisit 2013 when market maker GETCO was looking to drive it business forward in a stagnant commission rate and highly competitive market making environment. In exploring its limited options, GETCO opted to purchase Knight. Seemed a like a good match - but was it?

In todays look back down Memory Lane, Traders Magazine shares the photos and memories of the 2012 Wall Street Women Awards winners and gala.

Looking back just one year, Traders Magazine was invited to Triad Securities, a New York-based agency-only prime brokerage provider as it celebrated its 40th year. We were proud to visit the service provider to interview the men and women who make the firm tick.

While sounding good at the outset and gaining populist support, real-time reporting and use of identifiers when trading in dark pools is still in the offing and still spooks industry - even eight years later.

In this Flashback Friday story, Cromwell Coulson, chairman of the National Quotation Bureau, owner and operator of the manually-traded pink sheets, which has now morphed into OTC Markets, looks back to 1998 and what he has done to make trading in small cap OTC Markets stocks safe.

In this recent slideshow, Traders Magazine documents the evolution of order and execution management systems over the last 25 years. Check out the images right here.

The holidays are a time of celebrating but also of giving and eating. In today's Flashback Friday Gallery Traders Magazine goes back to December 2008 and Pier Sixty where Wall Street's professionals got together to ring in the holiday to raise money for St Jude Children's Hospital and sample some of New York's best cuisine. …

As customary, the Security Traders Association of New York (STANY) held its winter holiday event and Toys for Tots charity event celebrating the season. In today's Flashback Friday gallery, we look back to December 2015 and the images then. Happy Holidays from Traders Magazine!

In this week's Flashback Friday story, Traders Magazine asks the question, is there still a "magic number" where off board trading hurts the market and if so, what is it?