“Exam Number”: N14025 “Word Count”: 1500 “MSc in Finance & Management 2014/15” “Financial Markets, Regulations & Ethics” (FMRE) “Equity Trading in Dark Pools” (Financial Markets) “This assessment/report is all my own work and conforms to the University’s regulations on plagiarism” FINANCIAL MARKET REPORT Subject : “Equity Trading in Dark Pools” Adressee : Financial Conduct Authority ABSTRACT This report briefly examines the “Equity Trading in Dark Pools”. The purpose of this report is to provide the Financial Conduct Authority with the information necessary for assessing importance of ruling the dark pools in the UK. This report provides definition and history of dark pools, advantages and disadvantages of dark pools for the main participant groups, regulators’ concerns, dark trading regulations and controversies. Recommendation addressed to the Financial Conduct Authority that it should take no action for this time being while awaiting for EU market response to the MiFID II implementation in EU. DARK POOLS In general, dark pools (also called black pools) are alternative equity trading forums that privately display orders and typically used by large institutional investors and operate outside of traditional “lit” pools or exchanges (Zhu (2014), Picardo (2014), Kwan et al. (2014)). Different from “lit” pools, the identity and amount of individual trades are concealed. The pools typically privately display quotes or provide prices at
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The Glass Steagall Act was passed on 1933, which is also known as The Banking Act to tighten regulation on the way banks did their business. This act was written as an emergency measure when about 5,000 banks failed during the Great Depression. Banks mostly failed because of the way they would invest with money. The act prohibits banks from investing money on investments that turn out to be risky. Banks could no longer sell securities or bonds. The act also created Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) to protect the deposits of individuals, which is still used to this date. The FDIC in this era insures your deposits in your bank up to $250,000. This gave the public confidence again to deposit their money in the bank. In 1933
Ethical behavior is behavior that a person considers to be appropriate. A person’s moral principals are shaped from birth, and developed overtime throughout the person’s life. There are many factors that can influence what a person believes whats is right, or what is wrong. Some factors are a person’s family, religious beliefs, culture, and experiences. In business it is of great importance for an employee to understand how to act ethically to prevent a company from being sued, and receiving criticism from the public while bringing in profits for the company. (Mallor, Barnes, Bowers, & Langvardt, 2010) Business ethics is when ethical behavior is applied in an business environment, or by a business. There are many
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Insider dealing has been affecting the efficiency of stock markets in different places like United States, United Kingdom and Australia. Hong Kong is of no exception. Basically, insider dealing refers to the trading of a corporation’s stock or other securities by individual with potential access to non-public information of the company. The law of insider dealing in Hong Kong provides a much more detailed definition and is very comprehensive. However, when it comes to enforcement, it seems not very effective. In the following, the law of insider dealing in Hong Kong will be summarized. After analyzing the comprehensiveness of the law, the underlying reasons of the difficulty in enforcement will be identified. Some
The world of buying and selling finical clams via Hedging takes patience, skill and a knack for the market however, when greed over powers business ethics risk are investable. These risk includes a finical lost for the investor and possible massive prison time for fraudulent practices for the assailant individuals who are responsible for the wrong doing.
The New York Stock Exchange has worked to become less exclusive to wealthy investors by opening itself to the public and allowing women to be on the exchange floor, something that was not allowed before 1943. Through its registration as a nonprofit organization and the government’s creation of the SEC, the New York Stock Exchange has worked to provide security for the public’s investments. Some of the security measures in place are requiring companies to provide detailed financial reports as well as financial operations. It has also worked to increase efficiency by upgrading technology to handle the workload of transactions that occur
To regulate the financial industries, I would use the concept of “command and control” opposed to the “incentive system” because deregulation of the financial system is what caused it to fall and the only incentive these industries have is money, which they make more of by fraud. Command and control is regulation of businesses and punishment if they do not follow directions made by the government. Deregulation is the underlying cause for example, Iceland in 2000 deregulated the financial industries, privatizing three of the biggest banks, where they borrowed $120 billion which lead to the banks collapsing in 2008. After the US was hit with a period of deregulation, which was backed up by Reagan who was supported by financial industries, investment banks began
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is the US federal agency that holds the primary mandate to enforce federal securities laws and regulations to control the securities industry and the country’s stock exchange and regulation of all activities and organizations including the US electronic securities market. The SEC is committed to promoting a market environment that yields public trust characterized by integrity to attain its mission of protecting investors through maintenance of fair and efficient markets through facilitation of capital information (Basagne, 2010). The SEC financing is a major area of focus since there has been major concern regarding the SEC agency financing and whether they utilize the
Times have changed and so have all the investment and trading options as well. Online trading activities have taken the entire financial world by storm and it is evident by the sheer number of different online trading platforms and brokerage firms emerging on daily basis. With great many advantages and benefits offered to the investors, it is obvious why; millions of traders and investors are making beelines for this interesting, online format of trading, rather than the traditional ones.
Insider trading refers to the trading of a listed company’s stock or other financial securities by individuals who has access to non-public material information about the company. This action often occurs within employees/ex-employees of the listen company. Information is considered to be non-public material information if making it public would affect the price of securities, and using such information in decisions to buy or sell financial securities would be unfair to non-insiders (Bainbridge, 2013). Insider trading is treated as a mischief in more than 90 countries, and defendants are imposed with penalties (Beny, 2012). Specific insider conduct regulations in New Zealand were first enacted in 1988, followed by amendments in 2002, 2006 and 2008. The insider conduct regimes between 1988 and 2008 are often considered as a failure due to weak enforcements. Thus in 2008, the regulator introduced a new regime, which was a close model to the Australian insider conduct legislation. Both regimes are expansive, meaning it could be applied to any person in possession of insider information. However, while the Australian laws were aggressively enforced (more than 26 prosecutions were brought since then), no prosecutions have been launched under the new legislation in New Zealand. In addition, New Zealand also had no convictions secured prior to 2008, illustrating a clear enforcement deficit in the New Zealand