INDIA The US securities regulator should be empowered by lawmakers to shed more light on “dark pools” – trading in shares outside of traditional exchanges – and high-frequency trading, lawmakers say.
Dark pools give investors a chance to trade large blocs of shares without alerting the broader market to what they are doing. The off-exchange pools of liquidity have proliferated in recent years to account for about a 7 per cent share of volume in US equities trading.
