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November 16, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

ASIC’s review of high-frequency trading reinforces strength of Australian market structure

Australian regulator ASIC has reported on its latest review of the impact of high-frequency trading in the Australian equity and Australian-US dollar cross-rate markets. The review builds on ASIC's 2013 and 2015 analysis of high-frequency trading. Notable findings from the review, outlined in Report 597 High-frequency trading in Australian equities and the Australian–US dollar cross…

May 09, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

ThinkCoin’s TradeConnect targets high frequency crypto trading with 0chain.net partnership

ThinkCoin, the cryptocurrency that underpins TradeConnect, a blockchain-based financial and cryptocurrency trading exchange created by FCA and ASIC regulated FX broker ThinkMarkets, has announced a new partnership with 0chain.net to support high-frequency trading in a low latency environment for global investors. Through the collaboration, 0chain’s parallel blockchain infrastructure will allow the TradeConnect network to process a…

December 06, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

MiFID 2: Are you a High Frequency Trader?

The following article was written by Richard Perona, VP of Institutional FX at Advanced Markets. As January 3, 2018 approaches, FX industry participants are busy reading through the new financial laws of “Markets in Financial Instruments Directive” (MiFID 2) in an attempt to understand how these will affect them going forward. Originally, MiFID was created…

April 15, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

FCA publishes paper indicating HFTs do not prey on other market participants

The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) today published an Occasional Paper, dedicated to high-frequency trading (HFT) and examining whether high-frequency traders (HFTs) prey on other market participants. The paper, authored by Matteo Aquilina and Carla Ysusi, both working in the Chief Economist’s Department of the Financial Conduct Authority, examines claims that HFTs can predict when…

February 10, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

Danish FSA to suggest supervising algo and high frequency trading

Denmark's Financial Supervisory Authority (FSA) today published a Report on algorithmic trading on NASDAQ Copenhagen, with the study mapping trading in securities carried out by computers on NASDAQ Copenhagen. The report also addresses the regulator's intentions of supervising algorithmic trading, including the so-called high-frequency trading. At present times, algorithmic trading accounts for approximately 50% of…

December 08, 2015 BY Maria Nikolova

Virtu Financial Europe, Euronext Paris get €5M fines in France for market rules violation

The Enforcement Committee of France's financial markets regulator AMF has imposed hefty fines on high frequency trading firm Virtu Financial Europe, formerly known as Madison Tyler Europe, and Euronext Paris. On December 4, 2015, the Committee fined Virtu Financial Europe €5 million ($5.43 million) for market manipulation and ignoring Euronext market rules. Euronext Paris also…

October 26, 2015 BY LeapRate Staff

High-frequency trading and dark liquidity not adversely affecting markets: ASIC

Australia financial regulator ASIC has published the results of two studies it had commissioned on high-frequency trading and dark liquidity - two very controversial topics of late in financial trading - and the results will likely surprise a lot of people. ASIC has concluded that financial market users have become better able to operate in…

April 22, 2015 BY Mike Fox

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