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01 Mar 2018

Preserving Capital Markets Efficiency in the High-Frequency Trading Era

Giovanni Strampelli | Gaia Balp

Due to technological innovation and automation, trading on equity markets has changed dramatically during the past twenty years. Algorithmic and High-Frequency Trading (HFT) have come to equally...

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22 Jan 2018

Post MiFID II, Dark Trading Should Return to Basics

Haoxiang Zhu | Carole Comerton-Forde

On January 3, 2018, the revised Markets in Financial Instruments Directive, or MiFID II, became effective across EU member states. This comprehensive and far-reaching regulation will shape European...
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27 Jun 2017

The Market Structure Crisis, HFT Practices, and Securities Fraud

Stanislav Dolgopolov

The phenomenon of high-frequency trading (‘HFT’), one of the pivotal ingredients of the current market structure crisis in the United States, has captivated the public eye, while becoming a key...

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12 Jul 2016

MiFID II: Regulating High Frequency Trading, Other Forms of Algorithmic Trading and Direct Electronic Market Access

Danny Busch

INTRODUCTION Is high frequency trading (‘HFT’) good or bad for the market? Michael Lewis, in his recent book Flash Boys, paints a far from positive picture of HFT. HFT or flash traders use such...

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01 Jul 2016

ICYMI – SEC approves IEX Proposal to Register as a National Exchange and Issues Interpretation on Automated Securities Prices

OBLB Editors

The SEC has recently approved IEX’s application to launch a national securities exchange with the purpose of promoting competition and innovation by facilitating the ability of market participants to...

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