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off-exchange trading

  • The Buy Side Seeks Liquidity in Hosted Pools

    There is a lot of buzz around the rise of private rooms or hosted pools within alternative trading systems (ATSs), reflecting the latest wave of innovation in equity market structure. But what is the buy …

    By Ivy Schmerken April 7, 2025 Insights
  • Plans for Equity Market Structure Revamp Stimulate Debate

    One of the biggest possible reforms would be a requirement for retail brokers to route individual orders to buy or sell stocks into a transparent “auction process” for matching customer orders, rather than sending them to wholesale market makers for execution on off-exchange platforms.

    By Ivy Schmerken July 25, 2022 Insights
  • A Year in Review: Top Blogs in 2021

    We covered topics such as retail order routing and the debate over payment for order flow (PFOF). We examined the resurgence in alternative trading systems (ATSs), the rise of outsourced trading desks for the buy side, and efforts to regulate fixed-income trading platforms as registered venues.

    By Ivy Schmerken December 8, 2021 Insights
  • GameStop Saga Puts Focus on Inaccessible Liquidity

    Now experts are saying that ‘inaccessible liquidity’ is costing institutional investors three times as much in transaction costs, and it’s affecting the calculations made by their algorithms such as volume weighted average price (VWAP) and percentage of volume (POV), which rely on overall volumes.

    By Ivy Schmerken February 25, 2021 Insights
  • Equity Market Structure Wrestles with “Inaccessible Liquidity”

    Equity market participants are learning about new exchanges, order types, and periodic auctions bringing innovation and competition to the equity trading landscape. Citing the concept of “inaccessible liquidity,” asset managers pointed to the surge of retail trading by mom and pop investors whose orders are executed off-exchange on private platforms.  

    By Ivy Schmerken November 16, 2020 Insights
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