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The Day Traders Are Back, Now Playing With Options
By Lisa Beilfuss and Gunjan Banerji
May 11, 2019, The Wall Street Journal
Martin Rogers has been regularly trading options from his mobile phone since last summer, after dabbling in …
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Technical issue sees ESMA delay crucial MiFID II systematic internalizer data
By Hayley McDowell
May 1, 2019, The Trade
A technical issue has forced the E.U. financial regulator to delay the publication of crucial data for systematic internalizer (SI) determination that …
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How MiFID has made its mark in the U.S.
By Richard Henderson
May 6, 2019, Financial Times
The launch of MiFID II represented Europe’s biggest shake-up in the relationship between banks and investors in a generation. Now an unusual …
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‘Dark Pools’ Draw More Trading Amid Low Volatility
By Alexander Osipovich
May 3, 2019, The Wall Street Journal
The calm markets of recent months have meant more trades are getting done in the dark.
Dark pools — private …
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SEC’s Redfearn: Consolidated Tapes Won’t Solve Trading Data Needs
By Josephine Gallagher and Hamad Ali
April 30, 2019, Waters Technology
A U.S.-style consolidated tape is not the answer to the industry’s market data problems across the E.U. and beyond, …
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After Hours: The Rise of Europe’s Closing Auctions
By Tim Cave, TABB Group
Originally published on the TABBFORUM
The concentration of trading volume at the close has been a major feature of equity markets for some time, but …
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MiFID II Boosts TCA
By Shanny Basar
April 10, 2019, Markets Media
Nearly all, 95%, of institutional trading desks in Europe are using transaction cost analysis but further progress is needed in fixed income …
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Brokers ‘Clinging On’ Amid Weak Research Spending
By David Ricketts
April 9, 2019, Financial News
It is more than a year since sweeping changes were waved in under Europe’s landmark Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II, and …
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European Investors Complain Over Soaring Cost of Data
By Philip Stafford
April 3, 2019, Financial Times
European stock exchanges are locked in battle against some of their biggest customers, trying to fend off accusations that they are overcharging …
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Liquidity Matters: Amid Equity Market Melt Up, Dark Pools Continue to Slip
By Larry Tabb, TABB Group
Originally published on the TABBFORUM
A declining VIX framed the US equity market in April 2019, as lower trading volumes followed lower volatility. As trading …
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