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6 February, 2026

24-Hour Market Trading Regulation Issues - And How Some Are Already Being Solved

As U.S. equity trading expands overnight, regulation built for daytime markets is lagging. With after-hours ATSs growing in importance, gaps in transparency and oversight are becoming more pronounced. Exegy and BMLL examine how regulation is adapting to a 24-hour market and why high-quality data is essential to future oversight.

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24 October, 2025

Goldman Sachs: How Well Are UK & EU Stock Markets Working?

Stock markets in the UK and the EU have transformed over the last decade as increased competition among trading venues and a shift in the composition of market participants have changed how and where trading happens.

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5 December, 2026

Study on consolidation and reducing fragmentation in trading and post-trading infrastructures in Europe

EU capital markets remain too fragmented and complex to support the SIU’s goals. Outdated, costly infrastructure and slow progress on legal harmonisation, especially in tax and securities law, continue to block integration. Interviews with about 100 stakeholders confirm that national legal...

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15 April, 2025

S&P500 futures liquidity declined 90% at height of tariff turmoil

Global Trading analyses the how depth of order book collapsed as liquidity providers fled unprecedented volatility.

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11 April,2025

Tariffs and turmoil: Rising volatility and the true cost of trading in Europe

With recent market volatility, we examined the impact of Trump's tariffs on market structure and how people traded.

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12 March, 2025

FCA pledges caution as industry voices concern over rise of bilateral trading

At the FIX EMEA Trading Conference, 46% of attendees highlighted the rise of bilateral trading and its effect on public market price formation as their top regulatory concern for 2025.

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6 February, 2025

Traders Must Prioritize Data Quality for Better Execution

Dr. Elliot Banks, CPO, and Rob Laible, Head of Americas, spoke with Traders Magazine at Equity Leaders Summit (ELS) about the importance of high-quality data and how it has never been more critical.

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12 December, 2024

Liquidity, it’s a two-way street

Annabel Smith delves into the increasing role of bilateral trading in European equities, exploring how the evolution of this complex sector could shape future liquidity and whether it may draw greater attention from regulators.

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12 December, 2024

Liquidity Landscape: From Q3 trends to 2025 transformations

European equities in 2024 have continued to shake their reputation as the laggard in the global investment race and have remained resilient amid a complex economic environment.

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1 October, 2024

Optiver partners with data analytics leader BMLL Technologies

Optiver leads latest funding round, with continued backing from existing investors Nasdaq Ventures, FactSet and IQ Capital’s Growth Fund. CTC Venture Capital also joins the funding round as additional investor.

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20 September, 2024

Euronext to launch liquidity programme to help struggling dark pool

The exchange’s dark pool, introduced in April, has struggled to attract significant activity.

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30 August, 2024

Kepler Cheuvreux wins Best Electronic Equities Trading Award at the European Market’s Choice Awards 2024

Kepler Cheuvreux took home the top honor for best electronic equities trading at this year’s European Market’s Choice Awards. Bobbie Port, Head of Electronic Distribution at KCx, shares with Global Trading the key factors behind the firm’s achievement.

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27 August, 2024

JSE Insights: Trends in Activity and Market Quality

Since emerging in the early 1990s, Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) have become a highly popular investment tool, with global assets under management (AuM) hitting an all-time high of $11.5 trillion by the close of 2023.

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13 August, 2024

The Fresh Prints of PS23/4

Using BMLL Data, LSEG look at how the newly updated FCA post-trade transparency regime has changed the data you might be looking at.

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7 August, 2024

Caring for the ‘future’

Using BMLL Data, the Bank of England analyses SONIA (Sterling Overnight Index Average) futures and the STIR (Shot Term Interest Rate) futures market as a whole.

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