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A white paper published by US agency brokerage JonesTrading has launched a scathing attack on the evolution of equity market structure, claiming new pricing models have eroded investor confidence over the past two decades. read more>
The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) has been charged with compliance failures which gave some customers an “improper head start” on trading information, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has revealed. read more>
The Global Financial Markets Association, a sell-side trade body, has proposed a series of guidelines for bolstering the governance of financial benchmarks. read more>
A diverse group of investment and market structure experts will lobby Europe on creating an easier framework for SMEs to access funding through capital markets. read more>
Buy-side trade body the Investment Management Association has urged the UK government to include derivatives as part of proposed reforms that would ringfence retail banking from investment banking. read more>
Pressure on the buy-side to cut costs and provide more visibility on how commissions are spent is greater than it's ever been. But meeting this challenge could be impossible without the proper unbundling of execution costs from research fees. read more>
Korea's new tax rules for financial transactions, while not intending to target high frequency trading, will nonetheless hit the practice hard, likely leading to a fall-off of activity in the country. read more>
US market participants believe new regulation to reduce the fragmentation of equity markets would minimise the types of technology glitches that have occurred this year. read more>
UBS will seek legal action against Nasdaq OMX after revealing a CHF 349 million (US$350 million) quarterly loss in its US equities business that was mainly driven by the botched Facebook IPO. read more>
The liquidity provided by high-frequency traders in highly liquid stocks may be costing institutional investors more than they think, according to new research from US-based trading technology firm Pragma. read more>
