- Robinhood doubles number of tokenized stocks available to European retail investors. We still don't know whether an EU regulator has explicitly approved the blockchain-based derivatives.
- SIX picks Aquis Equinox as the unified trading platform for its equities venues. Will national regulators allow SIX to provide access to all its markets through just one connection?
- The European Commission will recommend that ESMA becomes the single regulator for trading venues, clearinghouses and central securities depositories with operations in multiple EU countries, according to leaks.
- The EU's new Single Volume Cap on dark trading may further stimulate activity on periodic-auction venues. The number of suspended stocks has already risen.
- It is too late to redesign the EU's consolidated tape, which should go live in the summer. But regulators could tidy up off-venue activity by removing mistakes from the feed.
- UK short sellers look likely to benefit from financial deregulation. The FCA wants to end public disclosures of net short positions by hedge funds and simplify the exemption rules for market makers.
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