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Jan 12, 2012
FinReg Forecast: Nine Market Structure Predictions for 2012
Jamie Selway, Managing Director, Head of Liquidity Management
Dec 28, 2011
ITG’s Prism Methodology: Identifying Distinct Trading Styles
Jeff Bacidore, Managing Director, Head of Algorithms; Kathryn Berkow, Quantitative Analyst, Algorithmic Trading; Nigam Saraiya, Vice President, Trading Solutions; Benjamin Polidore, Director, Liquidity Management
Dec 8, 2011
ETFs: Correlation, Causation, & Confusion
Doug Clark, Managing Director, Research; Charles Behette, Director, Sales & Trading; Chad Dale, Vice President, Research; Sylvain Vidot, Assistant Vice President, Sales & Trading
Nov 16, 2011
MiFID II: Ambitious, But Appropriately Calibrated?
Juan Pablo Urrutia, Director, General Counsel in EMEA
Oct 27, 2011
Australia: A Tentative Handshake with Competition
Clare Rowsell, Director, Head of Client Relationship Management & Marketing in Asia Pacific; Sunny Chung, Director, Sales and Trading; Doug Clark, Managing Director, Research
Oct 18, 2011
August volatility: A look at market quality, algorithm choice, and the path forward
Jeff Bacidore, Managing Director, Head of Algorithms; Kathryn Berkow, Quantitative Analyst, Algorithmic Trading; Nigam Saraiya, Vice President, Trading Solutions
Oct 12, 2011
History repeats itself (in Europe, at least): Financial securities take a hit in light of short sale bans
Jacqueline King, Vice President, Analytics
Oct 5, 2011
Waking up to the new Japanese liquidity landscape
Clare Rowsell, Director, Head of Client Relationship Management & Marketing in Asia Pacific; Ofir Gefen, Director, Head of Research and Algorithm Consulting in Asia Pacific
Sep 28, 2011
Normalization of Deviance And Other New Vocabulary in Market Structure
Ian Domowitz, Managing Director, Head of Analytics & Financial Networks
Sep 20, 2011
MiFID II: What it promises and what it may actually deliver
Juan Pablo Urrutia, Director, General Counsel in EMEA
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