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The Basics of High Frequency Trading

Recently the British financial watchdog, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published an occasional paper entitled “Quantifying the High-Frequency Trading Arms Race”. The impact of High Frequency Trading or HFT is fairly disputed and spans from being called a tool to rig the markets on one end to the other that outright disputes that “widespread latency …

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What Compliance Officers need to know about Coding and Algorithmic Trading

Over the last decade we have seen an electronification of trading, a shift from traditional sales-traders to e-trading. And this not just the case for high-frequency traders but investment banks in general and it is clear what the future holds. What does it mean for Compliance professionals though? Do we need to learn coding to understand …

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Banking for Compliance Professionals: What is Quant Trading?

A term you regularly come across when you read about financial markets is quant trading. It all sounds a bit mysterious as people most of the time can’t really explain what it means and the fact that it usually involves people that have a far better understanding of higher mathematics than the rest of us …

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An Introduction To The HFT Industry And Its Key Players

High-Frequency Trading has been one of the forces that has turned the financial services industry upside down over the last couple of years. While we often look at the regulatory aspects concerning HFT, it might be worthwhile to acquaint ourselves with the players that define the industry and present you with an overview of the …

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AMF publishes a study on behaviour of high-frequency traders

The Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) has published a detailed analysis of the activity of market participants engaged in high-frequency trading (HFT) on CAC 40 stocks, with focus on their presence in the order book, how they provide and consume liquidity and how their behaviour changes during periods of intense stress. Over the last few …

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PRA issues rules for passporting and algorithmic trading under MiFID II

This Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) today published policy statement (PS) 29/16. The paper provides feedback to responses to Consultation Paper (CP) 9/16 ‘Implementation of MiFID II: Part 1’. It sets out final rules to transpose the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) legislative package for: the extension of scope and harmonisation of the MiFID …

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FCA investigates HFT order flow anticipation

The FCA has published its Occasional Paper No. 16: “Are high-frequency traders anticipating the order flow? Cross-venue evidence from the UK market”. The background to the report is that, according to the FCA, High-frequency traders (HFTs) have received a mixed reaction from academics and practitioners with some people underlining their role as liquidity providers and others …

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FCA views on increasing electronification of trading

Edwin Schooling Latter, Head of Markets Policy, FCA, delivered a speech on how the FCA views the increasing electronification of trading at the FIX 2016 EMEA Trading Conference. In his speech, he pointed out that electronification has many advantages, but also poses risks and raises questions that need to be discussed such as: Is electronification, …

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CFTC Unanimously Approves Proposed Rule on Automated Trading

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (Commission) today unanimously approved proposed rules that mark a comprehensive regulatory response to the evolution of automated trading on U.S. designated contract markets (DCMs). The proposed rules, known collectively as Regulation Automated Trading or Regulation AT, represent a series of risk controls, transparency measures, and other safeguards to enhance …

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