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  • Sunday, 18 February, 2024
    InterviewGary Gensler
    SEC’s Gensler plays down hedge fund fears over Treasury dealer rule

    New registration regime ‘is primarily about principal trading firms’, says chair of regulator

    Gary Gensler
  • Tuesday, 6 February, 2024
    US financial regulation
    SEC moves to tighten oversight of $26tn Treasury market

    US regulator passes rule that will force some high-speed traders and hedge funds to register as dealers

    The SEC logo on the side of a building
  • Monday, 13 November, 2023
    Inside BusinessJonathan Guthrie
    The real regulatory risk highlighted by a booming US Treasury arbitrage

    Basis trade shows challenge for watchdogs is to understand hedge funds and prime brokers as symbiotic organisms

    Ken Griffin, chief executive and founder of Citadel
  • Wednesday, 13 September, 2023
    ChatGPT should do your earnings calls

    Machine-on-machine games

  • Tuesday, 12 September, 2023
    Virtu Financial Inc
    SEC accuses Virtu of failing to protect client trade information

    Lawsuit says market maker’s flawed system gave proprietary traders ‘nearly unfettered access’ to material data

    Virtu sign on a building
  • Wednesday, 26 July, 2023
    Big traders Virtu and Citadel Securities hit by market slowdown

    Activity subsided in second quarter amid investors’ concern over banking turmoil

    A montage of a man speaking on a phone and the logos of Virtu Financial and Citadel Securities
  • Thursday, 30 March, 2023
    Sovereign debt
    How wild was Treasury trading this month?

    VERY

  • Wednesday, 25 January, 2023
    Exchange traded funds
    Off-exchange traded funds

    The lit liquidity erosion

  • Thursday, 1 December, 2022
    US equities
    Cancer drug company accuses US market makers of stock spoofing

    Northwest Biotherapeutics claims Citadel Securities, Virtu and others drove down its share price

    A technician in a Northwest Biotherapeutics laboratory
  • Wednesday, 14 September, 2022
    US Treasury bonds
    SEC backs fresh push to shore up $24tn Treasury market

    US regulator supports new rules to help increase resiliency in a market that underpins global financial system

    The SEC headquarters in Washington DC
  • Thursday, 18 August, 2022
    Citadel LLC
    Ken Griffin’s Citadel Securities borrows $600mn as trading revenues surge

    Lenders line up to provide financing after volatility spurs profit gains for US equities trading house

    Ken Griffin, founder and chief executive of Citadel, at the Milken Institute’s conference in 2019
  • Thursday, 30 June, 2022
    US Treasury bonds
    Treasury market reforms draw flak from funds and high-speed traders

    SEC proposal requiring dealer registration would increase capital requirements and scrutiny

    The US Treasury Building in Washington DC
  • Wednesday, 8 June, 2022
    US financial regulation
    SEC chief launches review of ‘uneven’ US equities market

    Gary Gensler’s plan to ‘do better for retail investors’ draws fire from brokers and trading firms

    Securities and Exchange Commission chair Gary Gensler
  • Monday, 28 March, 2022
    US Treasury bonds
    SEC moves to unmask high-speed traders in Treasury bond market

    Principal trading firms would be forced to disclose positions and activity in $21tn industry

  • Friday, 4 February, 2022
    Markets volatility
    Traders struggle to transact shares in volatile US stock market

    Gap between buying and selling prices widens as ‘liquidity has dried up’

    Traders at the New York Stock Exchange
  • Monday, 4 October, 2021
    Retail trading
    Citadel Securities founder ‘quite fine’ with ending payment for order flow

    Kenneth Griffin says a ban on the controversial practice would cut costs for the market maker

  • Friday, 10 September, 2021
    UnhedgedRobert Armstrong
    Junk yields are junky Premium content

    And who cares about payment for order flow?

  • Friday, 11 June, 2021
    News in-depthTrading technology
    Market veterans mourn slow death of historic trading pits

    London’s metals trading ‘Ring’ lives on while Covid-19 hastens market modernisation

    A file photo dated 19 October, 1987 shows a trader on the New York Stock Exchange shouting orders as stocks were devastated during one of the most frantic days in the exchange’s history
  • Thursday, 11 February, 2021
    Virtu Financial Inc
    Virtu boss defends payment for order flow after Reddit frenzy

    Market makers’ relationship with online brokers has come under scrutiny

  • Monday, 23 March, 2020
    LexVirtu Financial Inc
    Virtu/high-frequency trading: hockey stick recovery Premium content

    Florida Panthers owner’s average daily trading profits are rocketing higher on volatility

    A NHL hockey game between Florida Panthers and St Louis Blues on March 9. While other businesses are shuttering, Florida Panthers's owner Virtu is on the hunt for more growth capital.
  • Tuesday, 11 February, 2020
    Markets InsightPhilip Stafford
    No easy answers to stock markets’ last-minute rush

    Today’s trading patterns reflect shifts that will be hard to reverse

    French regulator AMF found last June that 41% of trading volumes of CAC 40 stocks happened during the closing auction on Euronext Paris
  • Monday, 27 January, 2020
    FCA researchers outline $5bn ‘tax’ imposed by high-speed trading

    Paper released by UK regulators homes in on tactic known as latency arbitrage

    Close-up computer screen with trading platform window. Multiple exposure photo.
  • Wednesday, 22 January, 2020
    News in-depthThe Big Read
    The new kings of the bond market

    The surge in exchange traded funds and portfolio trading is shaking up US fixed income, putting pressure on banks 

    Matheus Lara M. Pereira in his office at Flow Traders in New York, New York on Janurary 21st 2020. Monique Jaques for the FT
  • Friday, 17 January, 2020
    Traders brace for reform of US economic data releases

    Banning computers from ‘lock-ups’ forces rethink on how markets respond

    A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., on Friday, Feb. 3, 2017. U.S. stocks advanced Friday after Labor Department data showed U.S. employers added the most workers in four months. Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg
  • Friday, 20 December, 2019
    Cyber Security
    Bank of England audio-feed dispute draws in investment banks

    FCA investigates broadcasts as big lenders look at whether their traders had access

    The registered office for Statisma Group Holdings
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