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Banks allow access to dark liquidity pools

By Anuj Gangahar in New York

Published: May 19 2008 22:05 | Last updated: May 19 2008 22:05

Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and UBS are to link their private stock trading operations to improve liquidity and better compete with the increasing number of alternative exchanges.

The move, to be announced on Tuesday, will give clients of each bank access to the other’s so-called dark liquidity pools – the private interbank or intrabank platforms widely used to trade stocks away from exchanges.

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