The biggest FinTech story of last week was the announcement that not only had Digital Asset Holdings (DAH) raised $52mm in funding, but had also secured a strategic contract to develop distributed ledger (blockchain) settlement solutions for ASX...
There has been plenty of talk amongst the industry about the MiFID II rules aimed at bringing more transparency to dark pool trading venues across Europe.
Kevin McPartland, Head of Market Structure and Technology at Greenwich Associates and Jim Jockle, CMO of Numerix review the years’ top trends in market structure, regulation, and technology. Kevin reviews his "15 for 2015: Top Trends to Watch"...
Equity trading trails the technological progress made in other industries. Although today’s US equity market structure is more complex, nuanced, and competitive than any other asset class, one could argue that the electronic tools...
The anniversary of the Treasury "flash crash" and next week's market structure meeting at the NY Fed has brought with it a renewed focus on the functioning of the US Treasury trading.
We recently published research examining how the market for trading US Treasuries has changed and is likely to change in the coming years
Despite the recent wild gyrations in global stock markets, 2015 could represent the calm before the storm for European equity brokers, which are awaiting word from regulators on new “unbundling” rules that could upend the economics of their...
ConvergEx announced last week that it was euthanizing one of its two dark pools, VortEx. In the grand scheme of the equities market, this was hardly a headline grabber.
US equity markets are always touted as the poster child for electronic trading, but our most recent electronic trading study results (see chart below) prove that view is somewhat misguided.
A few weeks back I had a great conversation with Liquidnet’s head of Fixed Income trading and the head of InteractiveData’s evaluated pricing service.
