• The announcement by 9 major brokers that they intend to launch a 14th US stock exchange
• Chris Concannon’s surprise departure from Cboe to bond-trading platform Market Axess
• The pending expiration of a popular exchange-traded note benchmarked to the VIX index
• A FINRA paper revealing the cost of conflicted broker routing
• How dynamics on both sides of the aisle in Congress may take attention away from equity-market-structure issues
• The continued impact of MiFID II commission unbundling outside the European Union
• The war of words over exchange market data fees continues, with dueling white papers from both sides