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      • 10 Ways to Manage Conflicts of Interest on Your Broker-Owned Platform
      • Debating "The Great Rotation": Will it Lift Trading Volumes?
      • Chile, Latin America's Rising Star
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    • Derivatives

      • Tradeweb Completes Electronic Pre-Trade Credit Check on Buy-Side Swaps Trade
      • Eris Exchange Reduces Contract Size to $100k to Broaden Access to Asset Managers
      • Key Banks, Clearing and Trading Firms to Support NLX
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    • Fixed Income

      • 10 Ways to Manage Conflicts of Interest on Your Broker-Owned Platform
      • The Big Shift: Overhauling Corporate Bond Trading
      • Structural Change In The Credit Markets
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  • Algos
    • Top Story

      10 Ways to Manage Conflicts of Interest on Your Broker-Owned Platform
      Buy-side clients need to understand that when they trade on a broker-sponsored platform, they are paying for these systems, whether that payment comes in the form of commissions, licenses, or widened spread. Therefore, the most important thing the buy side should do is to think like a customer.
    • Algos News

      • Have We Hit Peak HFT?
      • 66% of Buy Side Traders Value Execution Consultants
      • Czech Republic's RSJ Chooses KX Systems for Algo Trading
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      • Have We Hit Peak HFT?
      • 66% of Buy Side Traders Value Execution Consultants
      • Capital Markets: Managing Intelligence Optimization vs. Big, Diverse Data
      • Citi Launches Open and Close Algos in Major Trading Tech Upgrade
  • HFT
    • Top Story

      High Frequency Trading Loses Its Luster
      With profits down due to lower volumes and declining volatility in U.S. stocks, high-frequency traders face growing pressure to find new markets and innovate when speed is not enough.
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      • HFT Firms Flood DC with Donor Dollars
      • Is Trading Via Microwaves Ready for Prime Time?
      • HFTs Chase Speed Despite Risks and Regulations
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      • High-Frequency Shops Poach Talent From Exchanges and Bulge-Bracket Firms
      • Is Trading Via Microwaves Ready for Prime Time?
      • Why Didn't Microsoft Add OMS Functionality to Excel?
      • Self-Learning Algorithms: The New Frontier for Trading and Market Surveillance
  • Exchanges
    • Top Story

      The Big Shift: Overhauling Corporate Bond Trading
      With major dealers shrinking their inventories of corporate bonds, buy side institutions are seeking ways to find liquidity over alternative trading platforms that are emerging to solve the liquidity shortfall.
    • Exchanges News

      • Q&A: Market Surveillance Demands 20-20 Vision
      • The Big Shift: Overhauling Corporate Bond Trading
      • EU Dark Pools Regs Blast Buy Side
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      • Wall Street’s 9 Worst Bets Ever: From Nick Leeson to JPMorgan
      • Q&A: Market Surveillance Demands 20-20 Vision
      • LSE Takes Control Of Rival Trading Platform Turquoise
      • NYSE's Trading Floor of the Future
  • Dark Pools
    • Top Story

      10 Ways to Manage Conflicts of Interest on Your Broker-Owned Platform
      Buy-side clients need to understand that when they trade on a broker-sponsored platform, they are paying for these systems, whether that payment comes in the form of commissions, licenses, or widened spread. Therefore, the most important thing the buy side should do is to think like a customer.
    • Dark Pools News

      • The Dark Pools’ Choice: Go Into the Light or Down the Drain
      • EU Dark Pools Regs Blast Buy Side
      • ConvergEx Reduces Latency of Millennium ATS By 75%
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      • The Dark Pools’ Choice: Go Into the Light or Down the Drain
      • Structural Change In The Credit Markets
      • LSE Takes Control Of Rival Trading Platform Turquoise
      • EU Dark Pools Regs Blast Buy Side
  • EMS/OMS
    • Top Story

      10 Ways to Manage Conflicts of Interest on Your Broker-Owned Platform
      Buy-side clients need to understand that when they trade on a broker-sponsored platform, they are paying for these systems, whether that payment comes in the form of commissions, licenses, or widened spread. Therefore, the most important thing the buy side should do is to think like a customer.
    • EMS/OMS News

      • The Big Shift: Overhauling Corporate Bond Trading
      • TradingScreen Adds FX Functionality for Dodd Frank Compliance
      • Patent Issued to RealTick EMS for Staging of Electronic Orders
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      • The Buy Side Wrestles with the OMS-EMS Dilemma
      • The Big Shift: Overhauling Corporate Bond Trading
      • Market Structure Drives the Buy Side to Seek New OMS/EMS Systems —Study
      • Why Didn't Microsoft Add OMS Functionality to Excel?
  • Data Infrastructure
    • Top Story

      10 Ways to Manage Conflicts of Interest on Your Broker-Owned Platform
      Buy-side clients need to understand that when they trade on a broker-sponsored platform, they are paying for these systems, whether that payment comes in the form of commissions, licenses, or widened spread. Therefore, the most important thing the buy side should do is to think like a customer.
    • Data Infrastructure News

      • Deutsche Bank Launches Autobahn Mobile
      • Dutch Equities and Options Venue Migrates to London Data Center
      • BofA Merrill Lynch, Citi and Goldman Sachs Join Markit's Credit Checking Hub
      More Data Infrastructure News
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      • Market Structure Drives the Buy Side to Seek New OMS/EMS Systems —Study
      • Getco, Virtu Pursuit of Knight Signals Consolidation Trend
      • Is Your Bloomberg Terminal Spying On You?
      • Re-Thinking Operational Risk on Wall Street
  • Regulation
    • Top Story

      The Dark Pools’ Choice: Go Into the Light or Down the Drain
      In a letter to the operators of 15 dark pools, Finra asked for more detail about who knows what happens in these unlit exchanges.
    • Regulation News

      • Q&A: Market Surveillance Demands 20-20 Vision
      • SEC Fines CBOE $6M for "Systemic Breakdowns" in Oversight
      • Clearing Connectivity Standard Wins Support from Large Brokers
      More Regulation News
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      • Wall Street’s 9 Worst Bets Ever: From Nick Leeson to JPMorgan
      • Q&A: Market Surveillance Demands 20-20 Vision
      • Re-Thinking Operational Risk on Wall Street
      • 5 Trends Shaping the Buy-Side Trading Desk
  • Managing The Desk
    • Top Story

      Have We Hit Peak HFT?
      The number of shares traded via high-frequency trading are down and politicians want to roll out a tax to serve as a speed bump. Some are wondering if microsecond dealings are poised to fade away.
    • Managing The Desk News

      • Debating "The Great Rotation": Will it Lift Trading Volumes?
      • Chile, Latin America's Rising Star
      • Have We Hit Peak HFT?
      More Managing The Desk News
    • Quick Links

      • 10 Ways to Manage Conflicts of Interest on Your Broker-Owned Platform
      • Educating the Buy Side: Off-The-Desk Learning
      • Exclusive: Inside the GETCO Execution Services Trading Floor
      • Inside Abel Noser's Trading Floor
  • TCA
    • Top Story

      10 Ways to Manage Conflicts of Interest on Your Broker-Owned Platform
      Buy-side clients need to understand that when they trade on a broker-sponsored platform, they are paying for these systems, whether that payment comes in the form of commissions, licenses, or widened spread. Therefore, the most important thing the buy side should do is to think like a customer.
    • TCA News

      • 66% of Buy Side Traders Value Execution Consultants
      • Monash Investors Adopts Imagine Portfolio, Risk Tools
      • Goldman Tops Global Prime Broker Rankings
      More TCA News
    • Quick Links

      • Inside Abel Noser's Trading Floor
      • 66% of Buy Side Traders Value Execution Consultants
      • 5 Trends Shaping the Buy-Side Trading Desk
      • Does TCA Really Work for the Buy Side?
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    Brooke Allen
    30-Year Industry VeteranBrooke Allen is a 30-year industry veteran who most recently founded a quantitative trading desk now celebrating its 17th year in continuous operation. For years he wrote a monthly piece for International Family Magazine, in 2009 he founded NoShortageOfWork.com to discuss work life, and in 2011 he created Questions For Colleges (Q4Colleges.com) to discuss issues facing higher education. Now he is beginning a series for us here on his beloved Securities Industry. Before you decide to trust him or collaborate with him, look at BrookeAllen.com where you will find his Personal Disclosure Statement.

    Articles by Brooke Allen


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      April 16, 2013
      Banks have long been creating products that are so complex that clients, risk managers and even some of the firm's own salespeople can't understand what is actually in them.
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    • Do Our Industry's Problems Stem From Bad Parenting?
      April 01, 2013
      The problems of our industry boil down to spectacularly bad parenting.
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    • What Need for Speed?
      March 18, 2013
      So you think our modern market has fewer opportunities for gaming? Think again. A brief history of how someone can beat you in the market.
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    • Can We Do Better? Take the Securities Industry Objective Quiz
      March 11, 2013
      We should be honest about our true objectives.
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    • Take It or Leave It: Is it Fair to Expect Fairness?
      March 04, 2013
      Social scientists have invented a test to determine how much you care about fairness. Read about it and then take the test.
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    • Can We Do Better? Ethics Needs to Come Out of Hiding
      February 22, 2013
      Do you think "Ethics" should be more ingrained in every part of the business, rather than just an afterthought, or separate HR course? And should it have its own category on this site, rather than bury it?
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