- US upstart Members Exchange gains SEC approval and adds several more firms, including giant asset manager BlackRock, to its stable of owner-backers
- The London Stock Exchange Group begins running the EU’s antitrust gauntlet as it seeks to complete its planned acquisition of data behemoth Refinitiv
- Cboe takes a road trip to the Great White North by acquiring dark pool MatchNow from Virtu Financial
- Regional wealth manager and investment bank Stifel Financial launches a new ATS, outsourcing the technology to Nasdaq
- The SEC pushes ahead with a controversial plan to dramatically reshape governance of consolidated market-data plan
- Foes of a US financial transaction tax get caught taking part in an “Astroturf” opposition campaign
- A deepening Europe-UK rift over MiFID II’s rules on unbundling trading commissions from investment-research payments
- Continental European regulators lift short-selling bans implemented in response to COVID-19-related volatility
- How the pandemic may be accelerating efforts to automate a wider range of tasks in global finance
- Cryptocurrency markets and blockchain projects also get a boost from the pandemic