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JPMorgan's electronic trading push
For all its heft, JPMorgan has been a Johnny-come-lately to the algorithmic big leagues. Advanced Trading notes that in Tabb Group's recent U.S. Equity Trading Report, JPMorgan ranked tenth based on
Dark pools face image problems among issuers
To hear proponents of dark pools speak, the concerns over their services amount to a lot of fear and misunderstanding by politicians and average investors, for whom "dark pool" has the same sinister
Protect trade secrets when executives leave
How can companies prevent valuable intellectual property and trade secrets from walking out the door when top executives or critical employees quit to go to a rival firm? The issue has heated up as a
Beware: Dark pool orders can turn to the light
Traders magazine offers a commentary with an interesting take on the recent bombshell news that the SEC had charged and settled with Pipeline Trading Systems, a block trade dark pool operator. The
Wedbush sues LiquidNet over headhunting
It was big news when Liquidnet, the big dark pool operator, announced it had hired two executives from Wedbush Securities to start up a service to trade private shares, an emerging market led by the
The big picture on SEFs
The term "swap execution facility" (SEF) still vexes a lot of financial services professionals who happen to work outside of the OTC derivatives markets. It's an ungainly moniker--but not as bad as
Market structure issues are front and center
For many in the industry, market structure has been such an huge issue over the past two years that it's hard to see the significance of the Sunday New York Times article called "Clamping Down on
Dark Pools take hits in market share
The recent market pyrotechnics have lifted stock market volume. And that was good news for dark pools and lit venues alike. But the rising tide of volume did not lift all ships equally. According to
Mutual funds, institutions fear overregulation of dark pools
The mutual fund industry has long been at peace with dark pools, which in many ways represent one way of fighting back against high-frequency traders that are adept at picking through their orders to
Dark pools and retail investors, big synergies
It was big news when HSBC announced it would open up a planned dark pool in Hong Kong to retail investors as well as institutions. Some greeted the news as a sign that the trading technologies that
