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

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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 

  • Friday, 17 January, 2020
    Traders brace for reform of US data releases

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

  • Friday, 20 December, 2019
    Markets
    Bank of England audio-feed dispute draws in banks

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

  • Friday, 20 December, 2019
    Bank of England
    BoE slip-up shines light on traders’ rapid-fire audio news

    Cottage industry in focus after allegations of inappropriate use of backups

  • Thursday, 19 December, 2019
    LexBank of England
    BoE data leak: Old Shady of Threadneedle St Premium

    The spectacle of flash boys running rings round Old Lady would be a dispiriting one

  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2019
    Markets InsightPhilip Stafford
    Winner-takes-all digital economy poses risk for markets

    Concentration of business among small number of players presents significant challenge

  • Promoted Content
  • Thursday, 7 November, 2019
    US financial regulation
    Tower Research pays $67m to settle spoofing charges

    High-frequency trading firm’s penalty is the largest in a spoofing case

  • Tuesday, 22 October, 2019
    Special ReportRisk Management: Exchanges, Trading and Clearing
    LSE bids show exchange world’s new priorities

    Big deals in vogue again as focus shifts to trading from capital-raising

  • Friday, 12 July, 2019
    Markets InsightPhilip Stafford
    Deutsche will not be the last victim of automation

    Investment banks are having to spend billions just to try to keep up 

  • Monday, 10 June, 2019
    News in-depthFT Trading Room
    ‘Flash Boys’ challenger IEX struggles in quest

    Exchange accounts for 3 of every 100 stocks traded in the US despite initial excitement   

  • Thursday, 30 May, 2019
    News in-depthFT Trading Room
    Futures exchanges eye shift to ‘Flash Boys’ delays

    High-frequency traders fight effort to put brakes on ultrafast transactions

  • Wednesday, 15 May, 2019
    US regulator acts to curb high-frequency traders

    Decision by CFTC could open door for more moves to slow down derivatives market

  • Thursday, 9 May, 2019
    Uber IPO
    Trader who has waited his entire career for an Uber IPO

    Citadel Securities’ market maker has role at the centre of the blockbuster listing

  • Wednesday, 24 April, 2019
    ExplainerCharts that Matter
    Automation is the future of futures markets

    CME orders executed in one-tenth of a second are on the rise as robots power trades

  • Thursday, 11 April, 2019
    IMF warns recent volatility could be ‘tip of the iceberg’

    Official says banks safer since stricter rules but implications for market liquidity are worrying

  • Thursday, 4 April, 2019
    Equity exchanges
    European investors complain over soaring cost of data

    Funds say exchanges are jacking up fees to offset weaker revenues from trading

  • Monday, 11 March, 2019
    Kirsten Wegner
    US financial transaction tax would burden savers

    Democrats’ latest proposal is misguided and should be scrapped

  • Thursday, 28 February, 2019
    Tail RiskRobin Wigglesworth
    Markets must adjust to a new type of sudden shock

    Analysis suggests that the calm is being punctuated by a different type of turbulence

  • Wednesday, 27 February, 2019
    DRW Holdings LLC
    CFTC will not appeal judge’s ruling in DRW manipulation case
  • Wednesday, 20 February, 2019
    FT MagazineGillian Tett
    Finance v physics: even ‘flash boys’ can’t go faster than light

    ‘High-frequency trading illuminates the real-world underpinnings of digital markets’

  • Tuesday, 5 February, 2019
    Capital markets
    US regulator reports record surge in trade data

    Finra processed an all-time high daily average of 135bn data points last month

  • Wednesday, 9 January, 2019
    News in-depthThe Big Read
    Volatility: how ‘algos’ changed the rhythm of the market

    Critics say high-frequency trading makes markets too fickle amid rising anxiety over the global economy

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