(Bloomberg) -- Regulators could stem the migration of U.S. equity trading to dark pools by coordinating a cut in trading fees, an action exchanges are unlikely to take on their own, according to one of the biggest high-frequency firms. Most exchanges are charging traders too much -- 30 cents per…Read More
Courtesy of AdvancedTrading Contributor Phillipe Buhannic Editor Note: This article is endorsed by MarketsMuse sponsor OMEX Systems, Inc. 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.…Read More
Courtesy of Tom-Steinert-Threkeld Nasdaq OMX Group plans to re-launch its PSX exchange as a "better trading venue" for exchange-traded funds, notes and other related products, as early as next month. The exchange will execute trades in all National Market System securities, but will give special incentives to retail and institutional investors to…Read More
Courtesy of Gregory Bresiger.. Excerpts from Part 3 of a series of interviews with Vanguard Chief Investment Officer Gus Sauter How does Vanguard Funds,' famous for Fred Mertz like trading economy, go about finding the lowest possible costs? The process is detailed in Part Three of Traders Magazine's Q&A…Read More
Courtesy of TABB Forum Options trading volumes may be down across the industry but the buy side continues to remain captivated by the potential of using options. TABB Group expects options volume to decline by as much as 10 percent in 2012, yet a combination of greater buy-side adoption and…Read More
Editor note: For those who didn't get the"Best Ex Meets Worst Ex" memo, Ugo Egbunike from IndexUniverse spotlighted a block trade in QAI this past Monday that was apparently mangled by the executing broker, illustrating once again that ETFs are NOT stocks, and real best execution requires guidance from a…Read More
The International Securities Exchange (ISE), the venue that bills itself as the first all-electronics options exchange in the United States will open a second by year’s end. The company has has filed a Form 1 application for a second exchange license with the Securities and Exchange Commission. No details about…Read More
Matthew J. Krueger, who until October 2022 had displayed himself on both LinkedIn and the Seaquake.io website as the Chief Financial Officer for "digital asset infrastructure firm", Seaquake.io, an enterprise that specialized in bilking investors out of their money, has apparently made efforts to re-invent himself and ‘erase’ his role…Read More
Andrew Katz, aka Ross Katz aka Stark Katz, the CEO of 'digital asset infrastructure firm "Seaquake.io" presents himself across the internet as a 'serial entrepreneur' within the crypto industry. According to civil court and criminal court records in California, Colorado, Florida, and New York, Andrew Katz is a fraud artist,…Read More
Crypto Firm Co-Founder Andrew Ross Katz aka Ross Katz aka Stark Katz Andrew Katz aka Ross Katz aka Stark Katz, the co-founder of so-called digital asset infrastructure and crypto-currency trading firm Seaquake.io, who along with his partner Matthew J. Krueger of San Francisco are facing investor fraud charges, is now…Read More
Andrew Katz aka Ross Katz aka Stark Katz, the co-founder of so-called digital asset infrastructure and crypto-currency trading firm Seaquake.io, who along with his partner Matthew J. Krueger of San Francisco and UK citizen Dylan Knight are facing investor fraud charges, is now slated to appear in New York Criminal…Read More
With today's announcement from Pfizer (NYSE:PFE) indicating they are that much closer to a Covid-19 vaccine, its time to look forward to who the Biden administration will appoint to prosecute the tens of thousands of SBA PPP loan scammers who reaped tens of billions after the Trump administration made it…Read More
Since first reporting the ‘Seaquake.io Scam’ one year ago, the crime saga surrounding the so-called "digital asset infrastructure firm” operated by investor fraudsters Andrew Ross Katz, aka Ross Katz aka Stark Katz and Matthew J. Krueger has continued to unfold. Soon after MarketsMuse picked up the Law360 report about investor…Read More
PPP and EIDL Fraud is as rampant as COVID-19. According to the front page story appearing in the New York Times April 26 edition, hundreds of millions of dollars in SBA bailout funds that were intended by the US Treasury to assist small businesses impacted by COVID-19 via the Paycheck…Read More
(Source: Law360.com ) Andrew R. Katz, aka Ross Katz, aka Stark Katz an Arvada, Colorado man who is last known to reside in either of New York City or Southern California, and uses California, Colorado, Florida and New York drivers licenses while claiming to be a former FX trader for…Read More
An SEC subpoena is not exactly what any Issuer (or stock promoter) puts on the top of their birthday wish list. And, for crypto cool kids who are either already a member of the ICO Issuers Club, or who have applied to become part of the dapper dapp crowd that…Read More
Asset Management Industry is Notorious for Waste: Its About Blockchain, You Blockheads. NOT Bitcoin, Blockchain Dapps Can Mitigate Risk of “Death By Drop Copy” Any asset manager in today's world who has more than $500 of AUM does not need to be fluent in the language of fintech, blocktech or…Read More
GOP-friendly ETF Set to List on BATS BZX; Exchange-Traded Fund with ticker MAGA Will Buy Companies Supportive of Republican Party Agenda We can't make this sh*t up..Just when MarketsMuse curators thought we'd seen and heard it all when it comes to new-fangled ETF products, along comes an exchange-traded fund construct…Read More