Trading

The SEC approved four separate, but interrelated, proposals that affect equity market structure

Compliance lapse led Barclays Capital to overstate its advertised trading volume in thousands of instances and by 147 million shares

"I think investors should have easy access to information that details just how good of a job their brokers are doing. Thus, today’s proposal would ...

Amendments are aimed at more timelier reporting and the enhancement of the regulatory audit trails for U.S. Treasury securities

"The Commission’s analysis about the forgone price improvement, the so-called 'competitive shortfall,' ignores the fact that the current market is not static"

"The proposing release acknowledges that wholesalers do generally provide some price improvement relative to national securities exchanges. So what is the need for the proposed rule, ...

"The proposal would implement a modernized, more-flexible definition for round lots"

"The proposal appears to be a reasonable attempt to address deficiencies of the current Rule 605, but the Commission will still need input from market ...

"The changes to the minimum tick size make updating the access fees more urgent, because if the fees stay the same while the minimum tick ...

"While I do not necessarily agree with all parts of the proposal, it will commence a healthy process of public comment necessary to appropriately improve ...