Equity trading trails the technological progress made in other industries. Although today’s US equity market structure is more complex, nuanced, and competitive than any other asset class, one could argue that the electronic tools offered traders...

The anniversary of the Treasury "flash crash" and next week's market structure meeting at the NY Fed has brought with it a renewed focus on the functioning of the US Treasury trading.

We recently published research examining how the market for trading US Treasuries has changed and is likely to change in the coming years

Despite the recent wild gyrations in global stock markets, 2015 could represent the calm before the storm for European equity brokers, which are awaiting word from regulators on new “unbundling” rules that could upend the economics of their business.

ConvergEx announced last week that it was euthanizing one of its two dark pools, VortEx. In the grand scheme of the equities market, this was hardly a headline grabber.

US equity markets are always touted as the poster child for electronic trading, but our most recent electronic trading study results (see chart below) prove that view is somewhat misguided.

A few weeks back I had a great conversation with Liquidnet’s head of Fixed Income trading and the head of InteractiveData’s evaluated pricing service.

First of all, let’s give a nice round of applause to all market participants on Monday. And by nice I mean more like the warmhearted ovation from a "filmed before a live studio audience" sitcom as opposed to a genial, drops-a-2-footer-for-par golf...

Some quick thoughts on market structure as we head into today's sell off.

As MiFID II turns up the pressure on the delineation of payment for research versus execution, institutional investors may soon increase their attention on brokerage services that materially enhance multiple aspect of their execution process.