What exactly is going on?
Years after the launch of Reg-NMS, the topic at nearly every regional Security Traders Association can be boiled down to dark pools vs. exchanges, what is on the mind of the SEC and how are investment firms dealing with disruptive innovations such as algorithmic trading, high-frequency trading and ATSs.
At the recent Mid-Atlantic STA Winter Conference, market structure took center stage yet again for the meetings panels.
Mett Kinak, head of global equity market structure and electronic trading of T. Rowe Price, interviewed Ronan Ryan, the chief strategy officer of IEX Group. In the conferences Fireside Chat, president of Patomak Global Partners Daniel Gallagher interviewed former SEC Commissioner Stephen Luparello. As head of the SECs Division of Trading and Markets, he has been in the middle of the market structure storm. Finally Robert Novy, a deputy assistant director for the U.S. Secret Service, discussed cyber security.
Traders presents a slideshow from the panels of the Mid-Atlantic STA Winter Conference. To view the STA attendees after the conferences, check out our galleries from the Mid-Atlantic STA Part 1 and Mid-Atlantic STA Part 2. We also brought you images from the STA Florida conference that took place in Mid-February.
To view other Traders slideshows – like our tour of the Triad Securities trading floor – please visit our Traders Photo gallery.
