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Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Today in Event Processing

Posted by The Progress Guys

In his blog post “BRICS Win by Coming in Second”, Richard Bentley explains how emerging markets benefit by coming in second when it comes to high frequency trading. By looking at the first-comers, namely the U.S. and Europe, Bentley highlights how regulators were not prepared, resulting in unsafe practices. 

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Thursday, April 05, 2012

Today in Event Processing

Posted by The Progress Guys

Solving the Cross-Market Surveillance Conundrum”, from Theo Hildyard, offers his thoughts and insights on the World Exchange Congress, where he discussed the MiFID directive. Although MiFID was created to protect customers in investment services, the market has been manipulated and abused since the directive was first announced in 2007. Based on his conversations with other attendees at the April event, Theo gives his thoughts on how to better regulate and protect the market. 

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