Barclays Capital, the investment banking division of Barclays Bank, has announced its second investment in a trading venue in the space of two days. read more »
Dark pools
Tue, 2010-02-23 15:17
Market cool on SEC’s real-time dark disclosure plan
The US Securities and Exchange Commission’s proposal to require real-time disclosure of non-displayed trading venues’ identities in the consolidated post-trade feed has received a frosty reception from market participants. read more »
Mon, 2010-02-15 12:48
Liquidnet beats fellow MTFs to Poland
Liquidnet, a buy-side only non-displayed multilateral trading facility (MTF), has become the first pan-European alternative venue to trade Polish equities. read more »
Fri, 2010-02-12 11:56
Pragma dark pool aims to cut buy-side opportunity costs
ONECROSS, the new dark pool launched by quantitative trading solutions provider Pragma, will be the first in the US to allow traders to track benchmarks anonymously without the risk of incurring opportunity costs. read more »
Wed, 2010-02-10 13:48
Pragma’s new US dark pool to mix buy- and sell-side flow
Pragma Securities, a provider of quantitative trading solutions, has launched ONECROSS, a multi-benchmark dark crossing network for the US equities market. read more »
Mon, 2010-02-08 12:36
CESR to present dark pool evidence to EC within weeks
The Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR), the body charged with harmonising rule implementation across the continent’s financial regulators, expects to present its findings on non-displayed trading to the European Commission in the coming weeks. read more »
Tue, 2010-02-02 08:26
SmartPool looks outside major indices for further growth
SmartPool, the dark multilateral trading facility operated by exchange group NYSE Euronext, has identified European small- and mid-cap stocks as a target for future expansion. read more »
Mon, 2010-02-01 13:51
Nomura’s dark pool starts trading as an MTF
Investment bank Nomura’s internal dark pool, NX, has gone live as a multilateral trading facility and connected to Credit Suisse’s Advanced Execution Services division. read more »
Wed, 2010-01-27 11:11
Pipeline brings options to US buy-side traders
US agency broker and block crossing system operator Pipeline has added a block equity options crossing capability to its order control system for the buy-side. read more »
Wed, 2010-01-06 11:03
Ex-BlocSec CEO to lead Chi-East dark pool
Chi-East, the joint dark pool initiative between trading platform operator Chi-X Global and the Singapore Exchange, has appointed Ned Phillips as its new chief executive officer. read more »
