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Citi Takes Bats Trading Stake

NEW YORK—Global banking giant Citi has hedged its bets again for a post-Regulation NMS U.S. market by taking a minority interest in Kansas City, Mo.-headquartered Bats Trading, which runs the Bats ECN.

Howard's End

It is obviously difficult to gauge a person's expression over the phone, but last week it seemed that eSpeed chairman, CEO and president Howard Lutnick was sporting an ear-to-ear grin as he announced the merger of electronic inter-dealer broker eSpeed…

Stuff Happens

Back in my college days, I took a job as a file clerk at a global tier-one bank. Working in the bowels of an office tower in downtown Buffalo, N.Y., I noticed that on my manager's desk was a vanity bumper sticker that read: "T.W.H.I.P." I asked him what…

Staggering Into Summer

Late last week, the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq Stock Market experienced what my family mechanic would best describe as an "oopsie."

How Fast Is Fast Enough?

While in London last week, I found myself in conversations about execution latency almost every day. Besides smart order routing and defining best execution, it seems to be the most popular topic in the City.

Gaining the Edge

Technologists are all too familiar with the mantras of the trading desk heads: "I want it faster" and "I want it better."

Paying for the Grid

If there's one word buzzing through the financial services community's datacenters these days, it's "grid." Most investment banks can't get enough of them and many already have computing and data grids numbering in the tens of thousands of nodes, while…

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