While signs of recovery from the financial crisis may provide some respite to liquidity-deprived equity traders, new regulation could result in yet another dramatic shift to the trading landscape in 2010.
European multilateral trading facility BATS Europe has revealed plans to launch a smart order routing service to exchanges, fellow MTFs and dark pools on 15 February.
Corvil, a provider of latency management technology for electronic trading and market data, has implemented two new components to its CorvilNet suite of latency management tools.
Investment bank Credit Suisse has launched co-location services for Japanese equities, taking advantage of the new Arrowhead trading platform installed by the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) at the start of the year.
Broking house Crédit Agricole Cheuvreux has started offering clients the ability to gain exposure to the Saudi Arabian equities market using proprietary notes (p-notes).
US president Barack Obama’s proposed rules to curb large banks’ proprietary trading activities could limit liquidity provision, but clearer definitions will be required to make legislation workable.
AlgoTrader, a provider of broker-neutral, multi-asset-class algorithmic trading services, has implemented a new function in its SpreadHawk execution management system to help traders hedge currency exposures.
The Advanced Execution Services (AES) division of investment bank Credit Suisse has added its options algorithms to data vendor and technology supplier Bloomberg’s execution management system, EMSX.