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The Return of the Market-Maker

Since the adoption of Regulation NMS in 2007, market-makers in the US cash equities market have gone the way of the green screen—until now.

Sell-Side Technology | Analysis | Exchanges | 09 Jan 2012

Competition Commission Provisionally Clears Bats Acquisition of Chi-X Europe

The UK Competition Commission has provisionally approved the acquisition of Chi-X Europe by Bats Global Markets. The Commission reviewed the transaction and provisionally concluded the deal wouldn’t result in a substantial decrease in competition. ...

Buy-Side Technology | News | Exchanges | 20 Oct 2011

Wall Street Birds Bows Barchart

Chicago-based data vendor Barchart has begun providing streaming data from the BATS Exchange to Wall Street Birds, a startup portal to facilitate trading in stocks, futures and FX using social media by analyzing thousands of messages per second and compiling...

Inside Market Data | News | Exchange Data | 10 Oct 2011

Xignite Adds Equities to Azure

Web services data vendor Xignite last week announced it has added real-time data from its XigniteBATSLastSale web service—which provides on-demand access to last sale prices traded on the BATS Exchange—to the DataMarket segment of Microsoft’s Azure...

Inside Market Data | News | Data Delivery Technologies | 22 Aug 2011

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Exchanges Seek 15c3-5 Delay for Routing Broker-Dealers

Officials from Bats Global Trading, Direct Edge, Nasdaq OMX and NYSE Euronext have filed a joint letter with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) requesting that the July 14 implementation deadline for Rule 15c3-5 on sponsored access be delayed...

Sell-Side Technology | News | Compliance | 21 Jun 2011

BATS Bows Latency Feed

BATS Global Markets last week unveiled a multicast feed of latency information for members of its BZX and BYZ equity markets - though it plans to expand the feed to cover its European cash and US options markets in future - that provides latency statistics...

Inside Market Data | News | Exchange Data | 23 May 2011

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Opening Cross: What’s in a Name? Check the Pre-Nup!

After the romance of a courtship and proposal comes the planning of the union itself, and the thrashing-out of any pre-nuptial agreements. For example the Australian Securities Exchange and the Singapore Exchange last week unveiled a list of “commitments”...

Inside Market Data | Opinion | Exchanges | 18 Feb 2011

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Online Exclusive: BATS Buys Chi-X, Preps Data Consolidation

BATS Global Markets plans to consolidate access to market data from pan-European multilateral trading facility Chi-X Europe with data from BATS' other venues in the US and Europe, following its acquisition of Chi-X earlier today, Friday, Feb. 18, officials...

Inside Market Data | News | Exchange Data | 18 Feb 2011

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BATS Brings Competition to Brazil

Bats Global Markets has announced plans to create a new trading venue with clearing and depository services in Brazil to rival the local BM&FBovespa exchange. Bats aims to provide cheaper, faster and better services via the delivery of a number of technology...

Sell-Side Technology | News | Exchanges | 15 Feb 2011

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Opening Cross: Love Is in the Air

It’s Valentine’s Day, and the financial markets are flush with romance, with exchanges performing their own version of Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, and with their market data divisions representing a valuable dowry. Surprise announcements last...

Inside Market Data | Opinion | Exchanges | 14 Feb 2011

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