Berlin takes on HFT alone
  • 5 years ago
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Germany has taken unilateral action to regulate high-frequency trading just as the European Parliament is set to endorse pan-EU plans to curbs this sort of ultra-fast electronic trading. Lex's Stuart Kirk and Nikki Tait discuss why Berlin is going it alone and the difficulties to introducing Europe wide regulation.

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