Welcome to the third blog in our series on liquidity. If you haven’t done so already, please read our previous pieces: What is liquidity? and What is a liquidity provider? In those blogs, we addressed what constitutes liquidity and how it is provided.
CONTINUE READINGIn our last blog, we discussed liquidity and defined it as a measure of market participants’ ability to trade what they want, when they want, at a mutually agreed upon price for a specific quantity.
CONTINUE READINGLiquidity is a measure of market participants’ ability to trade what they want, when they want, at a mutually agreed upon price for a specific quantity.
CONTINUE READINGAt a CFTC meeting last week, Chairman Tim Massad outlined the Commission’s fall priorities.
CONTINUE READINGThe MiFID II/R commodities seminar focused on the following areas
CONTINUE READINGOver the summer, while college students interned, families vacationed, and the world watched the Olympics, several teams of academics put trading activity under a microscope and came up with some interesting observations about today’s electronic marketplace.
CONTINUE READINGAt a Congressional hearing in July, members of the House Agriculture Committee sought feedback on the CFTC’s proposed regulation on automated trading (Reg AT).
CONTINUE READINGAt tomorrow’s meeting of the SEC’s Equity Market Structure Advisory Committee (EMSAC), committee members and panelists will discuss a proposed framework for a potential access fee pilot.
CONTINUE READINGIn our last piece on the CFTC’s proposed rules on automated trading, we explained why the Commission should focus only on risk controls in its first rulemaking on this topic.
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