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How To Protect Yourself When Using Intermarket Sweep Orders and Breaking the Order Protection Rule

“With great power comes great responsibility” – Voltaire (or Spider Man’s Uncle Ben)   As the fairly controversial and seemingly very expensive SEC tick pilot comes to a close in October, it’s a good time to reflect on the very interesting exemptions to Rule 611, specifically the use of Intermarket Sweep Orders (ISOs) and their

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IOP Surveillance-Critical Component of a Comprehensive Trade Surveillance Program

The focus of regulators and exchanges continues to sharpen and recent interest has zeroed in on the activity prior to the opening of the market. In products where an Indicative Opening Price (IOP) is utilized, regulatory action and fines have come down for behaviors that are deemed to be manipulative. To assist firms in managing

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How can we help? – Disrupting the Regulatory Industry

I recently rehashed an old idea of mine as I was reading Chris Skinner’s post “Real-time connections between regulators and banks is a game-changer.” If a financial regulatory body (like FINRA or ESMA for instance) was being created today, how could it be different? As Chris lays out in his post, regulators are starting to look

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