Lower equity trading turnover in Europe throughout 2009 is prompting buy-side traders to seek more liquidity in dark pools and execute more aggressively when opportunities are found. Lower equity ...

For buy-side traders, executing orders in dark pools has long been akin to navigating vast, fog-covered oceans. Two counterparties may pass within reach of each other, unaware of the liquidity that ...

The major question of the day was whether dark liquidity pools truly lower transaction costs for traders. Panelist James Ross, vice president with NYSE Euronext, says firms should view cost savings ...

Agency brokerage Instinet recently went live with its options dark liquidity pool, Instinet Options CBX, Instinet officials tell SST. "This was the next logical step in leveraging our infrastructure ...

A trading platform called IntelligentCross has gotten under Wall Street’s skin. This year, it passed UBS to become the largest of “dark pools”—those off-exchange platforms where institutions can trade ...

In May, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and UBS announced bilateral agreements to offer reciprocal access for algorithmic trades to each other’s "dark pools". Dark pools are matching engines for ...

Fierce competition on speed is a defining feature of modern financial markets. In response to a price signal with certain consequences, a race among market participants occurs based on how quickly ...

NEW YORK, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Many big global investors are in the dark about the actual levels of anonymity and liquidity of the "dark pools" they use to trade large amounts of stock, according to a ...

In late november, Tony Huck, CO-head of sales and trading at brokerage house Investment Technology Group, got word that a competitor, Credit Suisse, was allowing its clients to access his firm's ...