Tag: surveillance
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Cracking the High Frequency Trading Nut
By Richard Bentley, Vice President, Capital Markets, Progress Software When cracking a nut, would you normally use a sledgehammer or a more precise tool? It may sound like a daft question, but it’s nonetheless one that occurred to me at the European Trading Technology Conference,... -
Solving the Cross-Market Surveillance Conundrum
Editor’s Note: the following includes thoughts and insight on the World Exchange Congress from Theo Hildyard, Solutions Architect, Market Surveillance at Progress Software. When the announcement of the first Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (known as MiFID) was made in... -
Can market surveillance help to keep traders on track?
By Richard Bentley, Vice President, Capital Markets, Progress Software There’s no doubt that today's high speed capital markets and cross product, cross market trade volumes mean regulation struggles to keep up with changes in the market. MiFID II is an example of a financial regulatory... -
DON'T PANIC! Maybe a Depressed Robot is to Blame
The market frenzy that whiplashed global markets last week has been - unsurprisingly - blamed on high frequency trading. Headlines such as these fuelled the fire:- "The Trading Game is Causing Market Panic" -...
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HFT Volume: Cool Liquidity or Just Hot Air?
There have been some heated public debates recently about the kind of liquidity that is being provided by high frequency trading. In an earlier post on Tabb Forum Candyce Edelen from Propel Growth asks if HFTs provide liquidity or do they just provide volume? Liquidity is bread and butter for... -
Keeping the Train on Track
It has been said that regulators are struggling to keep up with high frequency and algorithmic trading because they have outdated methodology and technology. This battle has been likened to trying to chase a Ferrari on a bicycle. But what happens when the regulators are constantly changing the... -
Tickets Please: Technology to Keep You on the Train
The ticket to preventing and deterring rogue trading could well be technology. Although most financial services firms have some form of surveillance and monitoring technology in place, it isn't good enough to keep them from getting kicked off the regulation train. Financial services firms risk... -
All Change: When to Prepare for New Regulations
As financial institutions bemoan the uncertainty still hovering over Dodd-Frank implementation and possible delays, there are steps that they can take to prepare for them even before the ink dries. Otherwise compliance can cause major disruptions to their business operations. Brokers, in... -
All Aboard: New Regulations Take Many Tracks
The regulatory trains in Europe and the US have left their respective stations and are headed down the tracks, but they will change tracks many times along the route before reaching their destination. Thick tomes of proposed operating rules have to be interpreted even as interested financial services...
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