Carlo DiFlorio, FINRA's Chief Risk Officer and Head of Strategy, told the annual meeting of the National Society of Compliance Professionals Monday that FINRA is emphasizing efforts to mitigate market risks, even as it regards US capital-market integrity as at its strongest historically. HFT & Algorithmic Trading DiFlorio addressed thee initiatives. First, FINRA examiners are focusing on firms' supervision of HFT and algorithmic trading, including pre-implementation testing and firm-wide "kill switch" procedures when something goes awry. Second, FINRA's Board decided ...
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The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) announced on Wednesday that it intends to discuss potential rule-making initiatives that would seek to increase the transparency of Alternative Trading Systems, including "dark pool" trading among brokers. FINRA will discuss the proposed rules on September 19th. Alternative Trading Systems, or ATS, consist of regulated fora for matching buyers and sellers for trades that do not occur within an exchange. The name "dark pool" derives from the non-public nature of some of these systems, whereby certain trades occur with little ...
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