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Transaction tax gathers momentum in Europe

The idea of a securities transaction tax--the modern extension of the Tobin tax on currency transactions--has been discussed ad nauseam on both sides of the Atlantic for at least a year. In the

The end of high-frequency trading?

The idea of a tax on securities trades was put forward by Gordon Brown at the G20 summit late last year in Pittsburgh (regulatory reform news ). Since then, it has percolated along until just