- MEMX and IEX target retail order flow
- LSE shuts down interest-rate futures challenger CurveGlobal
- SEC Chair Gensler appears to articulate equity-market-structure concerns in more detail, and says the agency’s long-awaited GameStop report “will be out shortly”…
- …As defenders of the status quo hit the hustings, with one even saying the conflict of interest embedded in payment for order flow “does not exist”...
- …and Gensler brings CFTC Commissioner Dan Berkovitz, formerly his general counsel at the CFTC, to the SEC in the same role, which helps defend the agency against litigation
- Pan-European regulatory body ESMA finally names a new Chair after months of haggling
- Asset managers and trading firms increasingly turn to cloud services and other technology to automate menial work and gain a big-data edge
- Continued regulatory uncertainty doesn’t appear to be stopping banks and hedge funds from plunging into cryptocurrency markets