Thursday September 02, 2010



Research & Rankings

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Latin America Latin America Research Team
BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research and J.P. Morgan share top honors in the 2010 ranking.
2010 All-Brazil Research Team
Itaú Securities leads annual ranking of Brazil's top equity and fixed-income analysts.
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Exchanges & Trading

Top Story



Exchange Tensions Flare

Rivalries among securities exchanges are heating up as the business of options has turned into a particularly aggressive battleground for U.S.-based exchanges.


Blogs & Commentary

Whose Stock Market Is This Anyway?
Commentary: The recent rise of high frequency trading (HFT) threatens to ruin the capital formation system.

How ETFs Can Trip Up Hedge Funds
Hedge funds that use ETFs to make bets on the broad market or a specific sector risk tripping a modest ownership threshold.


More Stories

Exchange Tensions Flare


Rivalries among securities exchanges are heating up as the business of options has turned into a particularly aggressive battleground for U.S.-based exchanges.

Tullett is the Latest to Stir the Valuation Pot


Tullett Prebon to expand its sales and client services in the rapidly growing over-the-counter valuations market.

Moody’s Is Poised to Release Explanation of Surveillance Process


Moody’s plans to release a description of its surveillance process for rating local government debt this fall.

Whose Stock Market Is This Anyway?


Commentary: The recent rise of high frequency trading (HFT) threatens to ruin the capital formation system.

Savvy Wall St. Vets May Look North to Canada for Spreads


Alternative trading system opportunities abound in the Canadian market as it begins to warm up to the dizzying world of multiple networks.

How ETFs Can Trip Up Hedge Funds


Hedge funds that use ETFs to make bets on the broad market or a specific sector risk tripping a modest ownership threshold.

Hedge Funds and Institutional Investors Go for the Gold


While hedge funds crave the glittery ore, pensions and endowments embrace gold exchange-traded funds.

Nasdaq Deal Puts Surveillance in Spotlight


Nasdaq OMX Group's agreement to acquire Smarts Group underscores the growing importance of surveillance tools.

CFTC Gets Proximity Rule Right, Traders Say


The Commodity Futures Trading Commission's proposed regulation on co-location and proximity hosting services has drawn favorable reactions from key derivatives trading constituencies.

2010 Tech 40: The Top 40 Executives and Innovators in Financial Technology


JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s Heidi Miller tops Institutional Investor's ranking of the Top 40 technology architects and entrepreneurs.

Profile Index of the 2010 Tech 40: The Financial Technology Sector's Top 40 Stars


Meet the 40 innovators who have lifted financial technology from an operational backwater to an engine of growth.

Bloomberg Ups the Valuation Ante


Major financial data providers have been jockeying with niche players for pieces of the valuation services market in recent years, and one, Bloomberg, has turned up the competitive heat with its announcement of an OTC derivatives pricing service.

Rating Agencies Confront Shattered Credibility


Can competition and revised practices restore credit rating agencies' battered credibility?

Chi-X Europe Breaks Into Top Ranks of European Equity Exchanges


Does upstart electronic exchange Chi-X Europe represent the future of equity trading?

Big Asset Managers Fight Rising HFT Cancel Orders


Large asset managers want regulators to clamp down on the high rate of cancel-and-replace orders originating from high frequency trading firms.

NYU Economists Find Way to Spot Systemic Risks


NYU economists have developed a new gauge, called systemic expected shortfall, or SES, that indicates which banks would fare the worst if the financial sector were to become widely undercapitalized in a repeat of the 2008 meltdown.