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Which form of social media do you check or use during the trading day?
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8%
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4%
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54%
- None. Compliance prohibits or restricts the use of social media on the desk
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33%
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Options Industry Blasts IRS Proposal
The U.S. Securities Market Coalition, a lobbying organization that represents the options exchanges and the Options Clearing Corporation, the Chicago Board Options Exchange, and the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, have all advised the U.S. Treasury to back away from imposing a dividend withholding tax on foreign options traders.
New Canadian ‘Trade-At’ Rule Gets Mixed Reviews
Canadian regulators have passed new rules governing dark pools in Canada, eliciting mixed responses from market participants, with no discernible consensus from either the buyside or sellside, or from the dark pools themselves.
Street Happy with Volcker Rule Compliance Delay
Wall Street banks are breathing a sigh of relief, as the Federal Reserve delayed compliance with the Volcker rule until July 2014. The move allows firms to ease into compliance with the new rule's provisions, as opposed to having to comply this summer.
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Demystifying Dodd-Frank
Commissioner Scott O'Malia of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is on a mission. He says the process of writing new over-the-counter derivative contract rules needs more transparency. Over the past year he has repeatedly called for more roundtables and public comment on how rules are written. Why is this important? Because these rules, among other things, will determine which OTC derivative contracts must go through a clearing process and which ones can continue to use the old bilateral, dealer-to-dealer model.
Brokers Want Changes to Volcker
Big banks and broker-dealers are seeking changes to the Volcker rule that will make it easier for them to comply with its requirements and still allow them to execute for their clients.
About Face
Investment Technology Group, best known for providing the buyside with electronic trading services, has quietly embraced the sellside. With the drought in orders from money managers now stretching into its fourth year, the agency brokerage is making a big push to win flow from retail and institutional brokers.
Manipulation or Market Making?
Rick Marshall, attorney with Ropes & Gray LLP, discusses the failure of the federal courts between 2003 and 2008 to ultimately convict 15 NYSE specialists for illegal trading.
SEC's Search for Truth
Bob Colby, attorney at Davis Polk, and former deputy director in the Securities and Exchange Commission's Division of Trading and Markets, discusses the challenges of the rule-making process for the SEC.
STA Helps Scuttle Amendment
The Security Traders Association has asked Congress to keep market-structure out of a bill making it easier for small companies to go public.
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