Debating the U.S. Equities Market: Back to the Future
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Debating the U.S. Equities Market: Back to the Future
Wholesale U.S. market reform is unlikely; surgical and tempered rule changes better balance traders’ needs.
Boston, July 23, 2015 – Today’s U.S. equities market structure is complex and difficult for many to comprehend. It is clearly not the work of a master builder, guided by the plans of a single architect. Rather, it’s the patchwork of a thousand carpenters whose blueprints were constantly changing. And now we’re here in 2015 trying to figure out at what point something went wrong in the U.S. equity market structure space-time continuum and how to fix things moving forward.
This report, based on 2015 interviews with representatives from nine of the leading bulge-bracket banks and execution brokers, reviews the top U.S. equity market structure issues being debated and surveys the various regulatory and industry-provided proposals and initiatives.
This 45-page Impact Report contains two figures and 10 tables. Clients of Aite Group’s Institutional Securities & Investments service can download this report.