Trading Venues

Pan-European multilateral trading facility Turquoise attained its highest ever monthly market share figure in February, as overall equity volumes dipped slightly following a strong start to the year.

Financial markets experts have welcomed Reg SCI, the new plans from the Securities and Exchange Commission to ensure trading venue stability, but warn of the difficulties in applying testing standards across market infrastructure technology. 

The Qatar Exchange has launched sponsored access and will offer members the ability to become liquidity providers in its most traded stocks.

A new Canadian alternative trading system operated by Chi-X Canada will launch on Friday 3 May after receiving regulatory approval.

Institutional traders are seeking greater control of their interactions with dark pools given the increasing prevalence of high-frequency trading in these types of venues.

FIX Protocol Limited, a provider of messaging standards, has published guidelines for the electronic trading of fixed income, ahead of new regulations that will lead to greater automation of bond trading.

Peter Randall, one of the most candid executives to grace the European market structure landscape in recent years, has stepped down as CEO of retail focused trading platform Equiduct.

SBI Japannext, an alternative trading system for Japanese equities, has called for changes to margin trading rules to encourage growth on its platforms and has implemented improvements to its trading infrastructure.

The London Stock Exchange has published its draft rulebook for the High Growth Segment, a new section of its main market for high growth companies that it plans to launch in March.

The New York Stock Exchange's closure of its dark pool joint venture with BIDS Trading, offers further evidence of the challenges faced by venues that attempt to cross blocks for the buy-side.