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"This is just the latest example of how clever financial traders violate laws and rip off the public trust," says the California attorney general. He's referring specifically to State Street, whom... Read more...

We're all bracing for a slew of new financial regulations, but lost in all that talk is the fact that not all firms will suffer to the same degree. One analyst, Keith Horowitz of Citigroup, thinks... Read more...

To some of you, it may see like front running was a yesteryear's issue. With all the compliance and monitoring technology that has been deployed at the regulatory level, you would think there would... Read more...

Bernard Madoff is considered by many to be the all-time king of Ponzi schemes. Now comes news that he may also have been a front-runner. A New York Post columnist is spreading the word at the behest... Read more...

There was once a day when we looked to the price of a seat on an exchange as a barometer of the exchange's health. Indeed, Wall Street's health. That seems like a long time ago. Now, we're more... Read more...

We've noted before that the development of the options market has mimicked in key ways the development of the equities market. In both cases, key drivers recently have been decimalization, tighter... Read more...

We've been among the many voices noting that traditional NYSE specialists seem to be toast. In this era of... Read more...

Financial service firms, especially those that trade actively, have long been a hotbed of IT activity. To hear a lot of executives talk about it, it's like a souped-up arms race. You need an arsenal... Read more...

A new electronic bond market is the NYSE-Euronext's latest attempt to diversify a bit out of equities and a reminder that not all the focus is on Read more...

It's hard to argue with the logic of electronic trading, which seems to be the future of every market. The latest example comes from the forex market, where half of all buyside trades are now... Read more...