APIs to Help with Regulatory Differences Over Dark Trading

Technologists urged to adopt a more flexible plug-and-play approach using APIs, as concerns grow about the FCA and Esma's differing attitudes toward dark trading.

API Economy

Market participants are being advised to adopt a more flexible plug-and-play approach to their technology systems, as worries grow about the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and European Securities and Markets Authority’s (Esma’s) differing approaches to regulating dark trading.

“The challenge that we have in Europe is there is a growing divergence between what UK regulators see as optimal trading activity, versus what European regulators see,” says Rebecca Healey, head of market structure at

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