Dark pools are becoming increasingly popular. Advocates for these trading venues claim they boost market liquidity while lowering risk, while critics claim their lack of transparency leaves them open ...

For years, buyside traders have complained – quite fairly – that dark pool trading rules and activity are far too opaque. In response to this criticism and to the numerous regulatory actions taken ...

Regulators on two continents have noticed that too much trading in stocks takes place out of sight. Tomorrow, European finance ministers plan to endorse legislation that would force transactions in ...

There’s a new type of toxic avenger among the dark pool trading crowd. The Barclays LX dark liquidity crossing network has introduced what it calls a “toxicity framework” — a way of policing an ...

A trading platform called IntelligentCross has gotten under Wall Street’s skin. This year, it passed UBS to become the largest of “dark pools”—those off-exchange platforms where institutions can trade ...

In late november, Tony Huck, CO-head of sales and trading at brokerage house Investment Technology Group, got word that a competitor, Credit Suisse, was allowing its clients to access his firm's ...

The stock market is in a dark place these days, and not just because of volatility brought on by Russia’s deplorable invasion of Ukraine. When individual investors push the buttons on their phones and ...

Equity securities are a major component of trading in dark pools. Common stocks, representing ownership in a company, are frequently traded in these private exchanges. These trades are often executed ...