Basel Committee takes a look at market making, prop traders and liquidity provision LeapRate

November 25, 2014 BY Andrew Saks-McLeod

Basel Committee takes a look at market making, prop traders and liquidity provision

Global regulatory authorities have been busily engaged in ascertaining the most effective method of regulating various business-critical activities in electronic trading for approximately four years, ever since President Obama swore the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act into US law in 2010. This set a precedent among continental regulators for them to instigate a standardized method…

November 14, 2014 BY Mike Fox

Global Trading Systems taps Credit Suisse Electronic Fixed-Income Chief

Katy Burne of the Wall Street Journal broke news today that Ryan Sheftel, the global head of fixed-income electronic trading at Credit Suisse Group AG , left the firm earlier this month to take up a new post at Global Trading Systems LLC, said people familiar with the matter. Global Trading Systems is a large computer-driven…

November 04, 2014 BY Andrew Saks-McLeod

CME fans the flames of HFT, implements NanoSpeed's solution to speed the execution process

Whilst Europe looks down on HFT with disdain, US derivatives marketplace CME continues to improve its ultra low latency infrastructure with NanoSpeed's pre-trade risk solution

July 29, 2014 BY Andrew Saks-McLeod

Neonet announces integration of Visual Trader to focus on algorithmic trading

Swedish execution specialist Neonet has worked with Visual Trader for a number of years, and is now unveiling algo suite to venues across Europe and North America

July 03, 2014 BY Andrew Saks-McLeod

Barclays at center of dark pool lawsuit as government officials bear down

British financial giant Barclays in receipt of lawsuit by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman in latest governmental crackdown on dark pool activity. Undeterred, FX traders are set to increase use of dark pools.

July 02, 2014 BY Andrew Saks-McLeod

Argon Design goes live with ultra-low latency HFT system for options

Despite European regulatory discourse relating to high frequency trading and the use of algorithms to gain an advantage over other participants, British company Argon Design has gone live with a system which facilitates latency arbitrage on the American continent.

June 09, 2014 BY Andrew Saks-McLeod

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