- Amazon follows Alphabet in announcing a stock split, but neither will fully address the problem of inflated trading costs for high-priced shares
 - MEMX proposes launching the 17th US listed-options exchange
 - Cboe announces an April 14 launch for periodic auctions on its BYX stock exchange
 - The two US equities Securities Information Processors seek to add odd-lot quotations to the consolidated data feeds
 - Jon Stewart attacks the stock market — and misfires — again
 - Deutsche Bank gets slapped a second time for alleged violations related to prioritizing its (now-defunct) dark pool when routing customer orders
 - Allison Herren Lee announces she won’t seek another term on the Securities and Exchange Commission
 - Two European regulators publish studies criticizing payment for order flow
 - Finance applications of artificial-intelligence see record rates of capital inflows and start-up formation
 - Cryptocurrency platforms seek to expand services to attract institutional investors, as US regulators move toward providing more regulatory certainty
 
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