Following the European Commission’s recent changes to the MiFID II regulation, Annabel Smith takes a look at the UK and Europe’s opposing approaches to dark trading and market transparency post-Brexit and the potential for a fragmented liquidity landscape.
The market has seen numerous major participants and exchange operators commit to their cloud migration in the last few months and these participants predict this trend will continue into next year.
The Aquis Exchange MTF venue for UK and Swiss large caps achieved a record 6.2% monthly market share in pan-European trading in July.
David Stevens joins Aquis as chief revenue officer based in London as financial and operations chief, Jonathan Clelland, moves to Paris as chief of Aquis Europe.
On 4 January 2021 as the Brexit transition period came to an end, €6 billion of trading volumes left London. Annabel Smith examines the impact of this and asks what the future holds for the industry.
The move by Aquis, Cboe, and LSEG follows an announcement from the Swiss authorities that gave UK trading venues permission to re-admit Swiss securities.
Gaze into The TRADE's crystal ball for insights from buy-side market participants, exchange operators and trading venues on their predictions for the year ahead.
From January, market makers for the large-cap segment of the Aquis Stock Exchange growth market can earn stakes in the market operator for offering tighter spreads.
SGX and the AWS Transit Gateway team teamed up with Aquis to prove trade matching and messaging could run efficiently in the cloud.
Deidre Somers joins Aquis Exchange as an independent non-executive director with 23 years of stock exchange experience in primary and secondary markets.