Unintended Consequences: Third Country Equivalence
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Third party equivalence under MIFID II has become a hot topic. The European Commission has no time to waste.
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Futures, Options and the Trading Obligation.
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The trading obligation for derivatives does not apply to listed futures and options. Strange or not?
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LSE and Deutsche Merger: a possible game changer for ETFs
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The merger provides a great opportunity to reform the ETF market. Some food for thought...
Read MoreLSE and Deutsche merger: Size is not the only thing that matters!
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LSE and Deutsch are going to merge. Size is not the only thing that matters.
Read MoreBIS Study about fixed income market liquidity.
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The Bank of International Settlements weighs in on the fixed income markets
Read MoreThe rise of fixed income trading venues.
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Some fierce competition is growing in the fixed income trading space. Why?
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HFT and social relevance
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Over the past few years efforts have been made to explain HFT. However, the debate was often very technical or not always very elevating. HFT interest groups should position HFT in society and explain the social relevance.
Read MoreETFS in ICSDs! A new way of settling ETFs.
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A new way to settle ETFs has been developed. It has taken may years but now is taking shape.
Read MoreShadow Banking a.k.a. Parallel Banking
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After 2008 Shadow Banking was seen a one of the causes for the crisis. Maybe a name change into parallel Banking can help to improve the reputation.
Read MoreThe force of social media in trading
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Social media and trading, a recipe for disaster or... opportunity?
Read MoreFront Running and Indexing
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Is buying shares well in advance of the inclusion in an Index front running? (no)
Read MoreIn case you missed it: T2S is live!
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TS2, major changes in the back office, possibly benefitting the bonuses in the front office
Read MoreBond Markets & Liquidity: A Recipe for disaster
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Bond Maket Illiquidity analysed by Citi. Not a happy end story!
Read MoreInside ETF Europe 2015
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The largest ETF conference made its annual trip to Amsterdam, a report
Read MoreAre data centers utilities?
/Another good post from Mechanical Markets. This time the question is raised if data centers are utilities or not. Given the latency driven compitition, being in the same DC as the exchange can be very profitable. However, it comes at a cost. And one can question to what extend exchanges and data centers are willing and able to provide space to all participants.
And this is exactly what happened in the Nordics between Verizon, Burgundy and Nasdaq OMX. The exchange abused its position in the market and forced Verizon to deny Burgundy acces to the DC in which Nasdaq OMX was providing co-lo services and hosting its matching engines.
All in all, there are very good and compelling arguments to start seeing DC as utilities!
You can read the blog here.
Putting the Flash Crash in perspective
/Mechanical Markets often hits the nail on the head when writing about the trading industry. In his most recent blog he put the flash crash in perspective as well as underlining the fact that exchanges do require additional safety checks.
You can find the blog here. Check out the other topics as well. It's well worth the read!
