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  • Lucera Launches On-Demand Infrastructure For Global Electronic Trading - High-Performance Platform Offers Unparalleled Flexibility To Dramatically Reduce Infrastructure Cost, Speed Time To Market And Unlock New Revenue Sources

    Date 20/02/2014

    Lucera Financial Infrastructures today announced the availability of its high-performance infrastructure to power electronic trading by financial institutions and high-frequency trading (HFT) firms. The ground-breaking Lucera platform enables customers to accelerate time-to-market, high speed connections to marketplaces and exchanges, and reduce operational and regulatory risk while eliminating the capital expense of building and operating a real-time network of customer and exchange connectivity. 

  • ISE And ISE Gemini Enhance Risk Management With Market-Wide Speed Bump

    Date 20/02/2014

    The International Securities Exchange Holdings, Inc. today announced that its exchanges ISE and ISE GeminiTM have enhanced their risk management capabilities for market makers by implementing a Market Wide Speed Bump. The Market Wide Speed Bump improves risk management by limiting a market maker’s total exposure across a market.  As part of the exchanges’ existing portfolio of risk management offerings, market makers are required to set risk thresholds for each options class they are quoting. The Market Wide Speed Bump is activated automatically if these thresholds are breached for multiple products within a specified time period, and all quotes for that market maker are then inactivated. 

  • SEC Announces Initiative Directed At Never-Before Examined Registered Investment Advisers

    Date 20/02/2014

    The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that its Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE) is launching an initiative directed at investment advisers that have never been examined, focusing on those that have been registered with the SEC for three or more years.  OCIE previously announced that examining these advisers is a priority in 2014.

  • TMX Group Readies Launch Of TMX Quantum XA On Toronto Stock Exchange

    Date 20/02/2014

    TMX Group today announced that it has reached a major milestone in the phased launch of its new high performance trading engine, TMX Quantum XA™. Customers are now able to connect to the new trading platform in a test environment and participate in simulated order entry sessions in preparation for the migration of Toronto Stock Exchange symbols, planned for June 2014.

  • Statement On Court Filing By SEC To Protect Whistleblowers From Retaliation

    Date 20/02/2014

    “The Commission’s whistleblower program both encourages whistleblowers to report wrongdoing and protects them when they do.  Today's filing makes clear that under SEC rules, whistleblowers are entitled to protection regardless of whether they report wrongdoing to their employer or the Commission.  The Commission's brief supports the anti-retaliation protections under the Dodd-Frank Act that I believe are critical to the success of the SEC's whistleblower program.”