High-frequency trading (HFT)
MillenniumIT's Gill Discusses Aequitas NEO Launch, What's Ahead
Millennium will work with Aequitas to add listings capabilities potentially later this year.
HFT's Oceanic Moment
Could the future of high speed trading be seafaring?
New SEC CIO Dyson Pursues Data-Minded Goals, Old and New
Eyeing HFT monitoring, big data initiatives.
Schneiderman Gets NY Supreme Court Green Light on Barclays Lawsuit
Attorney General is accusing Barclays of paying for faster access to market data to get an advantage for its dark pool customers
It's About the People: A Look at The SS&C-Advent Deal & HFT's Big Week Ahead
Anthony looks at what the deal will mean for the sell side, and what's to come for HFT this week
Kilburn's Corner: Anti-HFT Parade Has Led to an Age of Technological Disruption in Market Data
Faye Kilburn looks at the impact of New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's anti-HFT campaign on market data technology
Mexico's BMV to Use Nasdaq Smarts for Market Surveillance
Smarts will help monitor predatory HFT practices
The Cost-Benefit of Luminex
The end of HFT as we know it?
Gatelab Named Accredited Vendor by MOEX
Gatelab hftpath now available to MOEX customers
Nasdaq, BATS Interested in Running Dark Pools for Banks
Both exchanges have been in contact with banks, according to reports
AFTAs 2014: Most Cutting-Edge IT Initiative—IEX Group
It took a Michael Lewis book to turn IEX from a largely unheard-of dark pool provider into a household name with a reputation for fighting for transparency and fairness in the capital markets. But it wasn’t because of the Flash Boys book that IEX took…
Clearpool Unveils Iris in Aim to Improve Dark Pool Execution
Iris aims to combat more nimble high-frequency traders.
CCMR Pens New HFT Study
Pro-HFT group suggests targeted enforcement focus
HFT May Account for Three Quarters of European Equity Orders
Esma study suggests, under certain approaches, HFT touches 76 percent of equity orders.
The Waters Weekly Wrap: December 8-12, 2014
A look at the best articles from the past week
Cantor Fitzgerald Adds IEX To Algo Suite
IEX's SOR and ATS will be used on Cantor Connect Clean Algo Suite
CFN Adds Full-Depth eSpeed Data to Alpha Platform, Microwave Net
New fixed income data will expand appeal of vendor's platform, while accelerating eSpeed data delivery
CAT Conundrum: SROs, Vendors Vie to Build Consolidated Audit Trail
In 2012, the US Securities and Exchange Commission passed Rule 613, requesting the industry to develop a plan to build and run a platform capable of tracking and storing information on every order, cancellation, modification and trade execution for…
Dark Pools in the Firing Line
As the New York attorney general, the SEC and Finra set their sights on dark pool trading, larger market structure issues are coming to the fore that will force institutional traders to reexamine how they seek out liquidity. By Anthony Malakian
Consultancy Quanticks Repositions as Order Book Feed Processor
US-based market data consultancy Quanticks Capital Solutions has suspended its existing market data consulting and custom development business and repositioned itself as a provider of a technology platform for consolidating order book data from US…
The Acquisition: Japan Exchange Group CIO Yoshinori Suzuki
Yoshinori Suzuki, CIO of Japan Exchange Group, has overseen a massive technology overhaul during his tenure at the organization—but it’s an overhaul that he never expected to be in charge of just a few years ago. By Anthony Malakian, with photos by James…
Trillium Adapts Surveyor to Spot HFT Gaming
Trillium Labs, a software development spin-off from New York-based proprietary trading firm Trillium Trading, has diversified the potential uses of its Surveyor tool for identifying potential market manipulation, and is positioning it for use by buy-side…
For Low-Latency Trading, Even as IT Spreads Come Down, Challenges Remain
Panelists at this year's Toronto Trading Architecture Summit discussed the challenges involved in improving latency, and balancing the benefits with the costs.
June 2014: HFT: No Longer a Whale of a Time
Despite recent buzz, high-frequency trading does not present opportunities to just anyone, as Victor points out that the feeding frenzy has shut out all but the most highly advanced firms.