CLEARING & SETTLEMENT 1:31pm

Collateral crunch fears lead to new forum

New Liquidity Alliance seeks to avoid shortfall ahead of new rules

Useful tools

Timeline: Exchange consolidation
Exchange consolideration graphic promos
Follow our timeline showing consolidation among global bourses over the last 15 years
G20 reforms: the timetable for Europe
Flags of the EU member states fly in front of the European Parliament in Brussels
The expected timetable for the passage of the Mifid and Emir legislation in Europe
Follow us on Twitter
@fttradingroom
Jan 15, 2013

HKEx seeks to be ‘gateway for China’

Exchange aims to ease access to overseas markets

MARKETS REGULATION Jan 14, 2013

SEC in landmark ruling on Nasdaq plan

Regulator rejects exchange’s algorithm-based stock order

MARKETS REGULATION Jan 14, 2013

Traders warn Germany on HFT licensing

Fear that over-zealous regulation will deter trades

MARKETS REGULATION Jan 15, 2013

Tullett repo claims against BGC denied

Finra rules out compensation for disputed luring of brokers

DEVELOPING MARKETS & ASIA Jan 14, 2013

Singapore broker expands in Chicago

Derivatives firm to partner with high-speed software provider

Quick View

Korea Exchange Bank headquarters in Seoul pworld

FT Trading Room’s take on the industry’s key breaking issues in the market structures industry

Comment

A trader looks at a screen in a bank trading room in Milan ©AFP

Stop the high frequency trader arms race, writes Larry Harris of the USC Marshall School of Business

TRADING TECHNOLOGY Jan 14, 2013

ICAP sells stake in Traiana

Move shows banks the value of updates in market infrastructure

Jan 14, 2013

Comment: A global public good

European single market forced change in financial infrastructure

TRADING TECHNOLOGY Jan 10, 2013

BATS chief defends testing processes

Exchange may compensate for mispriced trades

Jan 10, 2013

BATS reveals multiyear pricing problem

Certain trades executed since 2008 may have broken SEC rules

mf global Read our in-depth coverage of fallout from the collapse of MF Global

Coverage by sector

Clearing & Settlement

Markets Regulation

Developing Markets & Asia

Trading Technology

Offers
FINANCIAL TIMES JOBSGlobal executive jobs Register today for free job alerts

VIDEOS

SPECIAL FEATURES

Job moves

Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing in a wide-ranging senior management reshuffle following the purchase of the LME

TechBeat

A communication tower ©Dreamstime Trading speeds could get even faster as HFT firms explore using radio spectrum, writes Philip Stafford

BLOGS WE ARE READING

MOST READ

  1. JP Morgan adopts single trading platform
  2. Fed weighs foreign banks derivatives deal
  3. Bats reveals multiyear pricing problem
  4. Banks rethink in-house trading technology
  5. BNY Mellon wins Europe depository backing

MOST POPULAR IN MARKETS

  1. Junk bond prices point to return of bulls
  2. Stocks slip as risk rally wavers
  3. ‘Grexit’ fears give way to ‘Crexit’ optimism
  4. High oil  price ‘fuelling US shale output’
  5. India tackles its costly gold addiction

FINANCIAL TIMES JOBS

Enter job search
Register for free to receive the latest executive jobs by email

LATEST HEADLINES FROM CNBC

TOOLS & SERVICES

Multimedia

Tools

Updates

Quick links

Services