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For many in the industry, market structure has been such an huge issue over the past two years that it's hard to see the significance of the Sunday New York Times article called "Clamping Down on Read more...

Have the insider trading scandals profoundly changed the hedge fund industry? On the surface, there have been some big changes. Many were shocked by the government's aggressive use of wiretaps, and Read more...

We can debate the decline of the IPO market all day long. But it is fair to say that it is a mere sliver of what it used to be. Sure, the dotcom bubble gave rise to lots of companies that should Read more...

The conventional wisdom since the financial crisis of 2008 and 2009 has been that retail investors are staying out of the equity markets in part because they no longer trust that it is giving them a Read more...

In times of great economic upheaval, we often hear people say that the markets have become more volatile than ever. In the current climate, they would be correct. The New York Times has looked at Read more...

Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit has long styled the bank as one of the world's premier financial institutions, one that is uniquely positioned to service multinational firms. Citi, which gets more than Read more...

Over on FierceFinanceIT, we've been discussing the notion that Bank of America was a good candidate to become the next gravy-train stock when it comes to high-frequency trading. Given the sinking Read more...

The debate over high-frequency trading and exchange traded funds (EFTs) has been raging for a while now, at least since the May 6, 2010 Flash Crash. But the exact process by which ETFs and Read more...

The battle over a tax on stock transactions is not going away. In this season of budgetary woe, you can understand why the political machinery is taking a strong look at this, which some have Read more...

Bank of America has led the market as of late in terms of trading volume. Certainly, high-frequency traders are having a field day, as the stock looms as their next stock darling. But short-sellers Read more...