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The credit crunch has been accompanied by all sorts of doom-and-gloom pronouncements about Wall Street firms and IT spending. The consensus is that it is heading south in a dramatic way. The Tabb... Read more...
There has been lots of talk about how human traders are being disintermediated by electronic trading services. Working as a cash equities trader hasn't carried a lot of cachet on Wall Street for... Read more...
Two of the biggest names in the dark pool industry have escalated their rivalry, reports Dow Jones, via the Wall Street Journal's Marketbeat blog. Back in May, Goldman Sachs inked a deal to link its... Read more...
Larry Tabb, of the Tabb Group, notes that the number of Dark Pools is heading toward 50. We keep hearing about consolidation but I don't see it happening. All the while, the landscape continues to... Read more...
There has been lots of activity in the dark pool industry as of late--from Lehman Brothers' announcement that it will align with the LSE to create a new dark pool to news of LiquidNet's planned... Read more...
We've noted at various times that latency is a huge issue right now. People are still talking about that Tabb Group report. Let's face it, your P&L depends on speed. If you're ion the app... Read more...
The Tabb Group's Larry Tabb posits an interesting question in a recent column: is multi-asset trading dead on arrival? He notes that "trading across products violates almost everything I have... Read more...