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As Day of the MiFID Approaches, Specialist Brokers Advance, Not Retreat
By Helen Reid
July 11, 2017, Reuters
Brokers specializing in researching mid-cap stocks are sharpening their focus and hiring rather than retreating ahead of sweeping regulatory changes that on the …
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Wall Street Wins Round in Fight with Exchanges Over Audit System
By Charlotte Chilton and Benjamin Bain
July 10, 2017, Bloomberg
The long effort to make it easier to catch cheaters and diagnose the causes of mysterious crashes in the U.S. …
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Dark Pool Traders Look to Stay in the Shadows
By Will Hadfield
July 10, 2017, Bloomberg Markets
Dark pools face a major overhaul once European limits on hidden trading kick in next year. Luckily for investors, there’s a buffet …
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‘Untested’ ETF Market Worries Top Speed Trader in U.S. Equities
By Annie Massa and Elizabeth Dexheimer
June 27, 2017, Bloomberg Markets
The growing market for exchange-traded funds hasn’t been fully put to the test, according to one of the top …
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U.S. Stock Market Executives Tell Lawmakers About Conflicts in Broker Rebates
By John McCrank
June 27, 2017, Reuters
Some of the biggest players in the U.S. equities market went to Capitol Hill on Tuesday to update lawmakers on issues that impact …
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Congress Gets Access-Pilot Earful
By Rob Daly
June 27, 2017, Markets Media
There was much finger-pointing during the hearing of US. equity market structure held by the House Financial Services Committee’s Subcommittee on Capital …
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Dark Pool Clampdown Seen Ensnaring 74% of European Equities
By Will Hadfield and Silla Brush
June 26, 2017, Bloomberg Markets
If fund managers want to keep trading in European dark pools, they will need a big overhaul of their …
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JPMorgan Turns Bullish on Future of Global Investment Banks
By Jennifer Surane
June 26, 2017, Bloomberg Markets
Four years after questioning whether global investment banks would survive the regulatory scrutiny unleashed after the financial crisis, JPMorgan Chase & Co. …
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$4tn Exchange Traded Fund Industry Draws More Scrutiny
By Chris Flood
May 27, 2017, Financial Times
The global umbrella body for securities regulators is to scrutinize the $4tn exchange traded fund industry, the latest supervisor to examine a …
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The Fate of the High-Touch Sales Desk
By Valerie Bogard, Tabb Group
Originally published on the TabbFORUM
Under the same cost pressures that are driving the buy side to dive deeper into an analysis of its trades, …
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