April 15, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

FCA publishes paper indicating HFTs do not prey on other market participants

The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) today published an Occasional Paper, dedicated to high-frequency trading (HFT) and examining whether high-frequency traders (HFTs) prey on other market participants. The paper, authored by Matteo Aquilina and Carla Ysusi, both working in the Chief Economist’s Department of the Financial Conduct Authority, examines claims that HFTs can predict when…

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