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The European Union’s Markets in Financial Instruments Directive, or MiFID II, was introduced in January with the aim of pushing more trading onto regulated public exchanges where prices and participants can be seen by all. At first glance, it seems to have failed its biggest test. The share of trading on so-called lit exchanges — where prices and trades are clearly visible — has barely risen in the first months of the new regime.

Reuters

Jul 2, 2018

Light or dark? Six months on, MiFID 2 rules divide equity traders

Working in an industry where you are one of very few women can be challenging enough — but imagine what it's like to be the only woman on staff. That's the case for New York Stock Exchange trader Lauren Simmons. The 23-year-old is an equity trader for Rosenblatt Securities, and she is both the youngest and the only full-time female employee to hold that position at the NYSE.

CNBC

Jun 13, 2018

How this 23-year-old became the only full-time woman trader at the New York Stock Exchange

The New York Stock Exchange trading floor is one of the most familiar symbols of American business. But in 2018, the arena that prides itself on predicting the future is stuck in the past in one respect - it's almost entirely staffed by men. Enter Lauren Simmons, the only full-time female broker on the New York Stock Exchange floor, as well as the only African-American woman, and at 23, the youngest. She told the BBC's Joe Miller what it's like to work in the male-dominated maelstrom.

BBC News

May 10, 2018

Meet the only female broker on New York's stock exchange

Rosenblatt Securities

Mar 22, 2018

Rosenblatt serves as exclusive financial advisor to investment-research platform Visible Alpha on $38M funding round

In honor of International Women’s day, and emerging technologies that can have an impact on fintech, we would like to highlight three women who are doing fascinating things in the world of blockchain. Meltem Demirors - VP at Digital Currency Group and member of WEF Blockchain Council: At Rosenblatt’s 9thAnnual Financial Technologies Summit, Meltem Demirors, formerly of Digital Currency Group, energized the crowd with her keynote presentation titled, “The Blockchain Hype Cycle – Past, Present, Future.” Additionally, we would like to commend Meltem for her inspiring Women in Blockchain – Leaders Series. Click here to read about the talented women Meltem has written about.

Rosenblatt Securities

Mar 8, 2018

In Recognition of International Women's Day

Trading in hundreds of European stocks may be disrupted when the region’s regulator starts restricting transaction volumes from mid-March, in what could be a more sweeping crackdown than anticipated. “This is one of the biggest changes under MiFID II,” said Richard Semark, head of UBS Group AG’s multilateral-trading facility. “It will alter trader behavior as suspended stocks move to alternative venues.” He says that even more stocks may be suspended now if January and February data are taken into account as well as the 2017 period.

Bloomberg

Feb 28, 2018

MiFID ‘Big Bang’ Dark Trading Caps to Impact Hundreds of Stocks

Major exchange operators across Europe have urged EU financial authorities to ensure systematic internalisers (SIs) under MiFID II are subject to the tick size regime. In November, the European Securities Markets Authority (ESMA) proposed enforcing the tick size rules to the SI regime in a bid to level the playing field for trading on-exchange. It stated a competitive disadvantage would be created for trading venues if only on-venue orders and quotes have to comply with the minimum tick size regime, resulting in volumes currently traded on-exchange migrating towards over the counter (OTC) execution.

The Trade

Feb 12, 2018

Industry butts heads over MiFID II SI tick size regime

Everyone in European finance has been abuzz over an obscure acronym -- MiFID II -- that’s about to radically change how assets from stocks to commodities are traded and investors’ money is managed.

Bloomberg/Newsroom

Jan 20, 2018

No Idea What MiFID Stands For? Here’s What You Need to Know

Rosenblatt Securities

Jan 19, 2018

Rosenblatt Selected to Provide Assessment for US Wider Tick-Size Pilot

First came dark pools, private trading venues that challenged old-school stock exchanges. Now something else lingers in the shadows of Wall Street: ping pools. They also operate outside traditional stock exchanges, but these venues, which are gaining users in changing markets, are more opaque for the public. Running them allows some of the fastest, savviest electronic traders to dodge exchange fees and reap plum opportunities.

Bloomberg

Jan 16, 2018

Trader VIP Clubs, ‘Ping Pools’ Take Dark Trades to New Level

$The 19th century newspaper editor Horace Greeley urged young Americans to “Go West” to the unsettled frontier. When he went himself, the trip from Chicago to the Pacific took two-and-a-half months by steamboat and ox-drawn wagon. He later advocated a transcontinental railroad to speed up commerce and shorten the mail service to 10 days. Wall Street’s fastest trading firms are invoking the spirit of Greeley as they build Go West, a trail of wireless towers, fibre-optic lines and submarine cables linking Chicago, the Pacific coast and Tokyo. Transmitting market data end to end will take fractions of a second for traders seeking topreserve an edge.$

Financial Times

Jan 2, 2018

How high-frequency trading hit a speed bump

Market makers and the trading desks of major banks are hoping volatility can surge back into the markets in the new year, but there is little agreement over whether that will happen. For much of the year, equity markets have steadily climbed with few dips, suppressing trading activity and volatility. So far in 2017, the Cboe Volatility Index, a measure of implied volatility, has posted the lowest average daily close in a single year since at least 1990, according to the exchange operator’s historical data. "It's been a pretty painful period for the industry," Justin Schack, a managing director and partner with research and brokerage company Rosenblatt Securities, said in an interview.

S&P

Dec 21, 2017

Traders, market makers hope '18 ends the pain of low volatility - EXCLUSIVE

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