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Stock and Derivatives Exchanges in the European Union: An Analytical Framework

13 October 2023

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Matteo Gargantini

Informational Advantages of Euronext’s Trading System: Colocation and Private Feeds

In October 2020 the Dutch financial daily newspaper Het Financieele Dagblad published an article (‘Euronext provides high frequency traders with an invisible advantage’) in which it revealed that...

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Mathijs Giltjes

Preserving Capital Markets Efficiency in the High-Frequency Trading Era

Due to technological innovation and automation, trading on equity markets has changed dramatically during the past twenty years. Algorithmic and High-Frequency Trading (HFT) have come to equally characterize U.S. and...

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Giovanni Strampelli

Post MiFID II, Dark Trading Should Return to Basics

On January 3, 2018, the revised Markets in Financial Instruments Directive, or MiFID II, became effective across EU member states. This comprehensive and far-reaching regulation will shape European capital markets...

22 January 2018

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Carole Comerton-Forde

The Market Structure Crisis, HFT Practices, and Securities Fraud

The phenomenon of high-frequency trading (‘HFT’), one of the pivotal ingredients of the current market structure crisis in the United States, has captivated the public eye, while becoming a key...

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Stanislav Dolgopolov

MiFID II: Regulating High Frequency Trading, Other Forms of Algorithmic Trading and Direct Electronic Market Access

INTRODUCTIONIs high frequency trading (‘HFT’) good or bad for the market? Michael Lewis, in his recent book Flash Boys, paints a far from positive picture of HFT. HFT or flash traders use...

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ICYMI – SEC approves IEX Proposal to Register as a National Exchange and Issues Interpretation on Automated Securities Prices

The SEC has recently approved IEX’s application to launch a national securities exchange with the purpose of promoting competition and innovation by facilitating the ability of market participants to develop...

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