Dark pools Archive

May 08, 2009

Goldman, Morgan and UBS link European pools

Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and UBS, three of the world’s biggest brokers, have granted each other reciprocal access to their respective internal crossing engines in Europe – SIGMA X, MS POOL and UBS-PIN. read more>

May 07, 2009

Nasdaq dark pool unveils new features ahead of Monday launch

NEURO Dark, a European dark pool to be launched on 11 May by multilateral trading facility Nasdaq OMX Europe, will offer IOI functionality, smart routing and new 'internalisation' order types. read more>

May 06, 2009

LeveL ATS extends reach with ULLINK deal

LeveL ATS, a non-displayed trading venue for US equities, has connected to ULLINK, a connectivity network and trading software provider. read more>

April 24, 2009

Dark pools at odds with price discovery

Taking liquidity away from the public order book poses a threat to the buy-side’s ability to discover prices, say top investment managers at the TradeTech securities industry conference held in Paris this week. read more>

April 22, 2009

Pipeline seals deal to acquire 3D Markets

Block trading venue Pipeline Financial has completed a deal to buy the assets of US block trading options firm 3D Markets, to foster institutional block crossing for US options trades. read more>

April 22, 2009

Citi unveils dark pool for EMEA

Citi is launching Citi Match, its internal dark liquidity pool, in Europe. The system has been live in the US for the past 18 months. read more>

April 21, 2009

Baikal to partner with Fidessa on SOR

Baikal, the London Stock Exchange’s (LSE) non-displayed equity trading venue, will launch a smart order routing (SOR) service developed with technology vendor Fidessa before its order book goes live in June. read more>

April 07, 2009

Cheuvreux to complete crossing engine roll-out in Q2

French broking house CA Cheuvreux is planning to finalise the roll-out of its Blink internal crossing engine for European equities by the end of Q2, following its launch at the beginning of this year. read more>

April 06, 2009

Euro Millennium seeks to end "distraction", plans new tools

Euro Millennium seeks to end "distraction", plans new tools

Euro Millennium, the European dark pool operated by US technology vendor NYFIX, has confirmed it will change its trade matching algorithm following discussions with UK regulator the Financial Services Authority (FSA). read more>

April 01, 2009

Buy-side faces aggravation over dark pool aggregation

Buy-side faces aggravation over dark pool aggregation

The ability to stitch together the liquidity residing in both public dark pools and brokers’ internal crossing engines is high on many European buy-side traders’ wish lists. But while some trading venues are responding by establishing dark pool aggregation services, regulatory and commercial hurdles could hamper progress. read more>