There is a new kind of emotional disorder going around the financial markets - the previously unnamed fear of something ominous now that new financial rules have been laid down. Let's call it regulation anxiety.

Regulation anxiety has led to all sorts of new types of behavior in banks...

As we approach the end of 2010 and we begin to see a tiny crack of light at the end of the financial crisis tunnel, there are many theories as to which technologies will lead us into the next phase of advancement in financial markets. Stubborn issues with latency, high frequency trading, real-time...

The FBI has raided some heavy hitters this week (http://tinyurl.com/238hrph), with three well-known hedge funds getting their doors rammed in, figuratively speaking. This could be the tip of the iceberg in all-encompassing insider trading investigation...

According to a Wall Street Journal article (http://tinyurl.com/2vds85m), a CFTC internal report found that the regulator has major communication problems between its enforcement and market oversight divisions. The article says this impedes "the overall...

Jeremy Grant, editor of FT Trading Room at the Financial Times, recently asked for explanations "on a postcard" about why speed is a force for good in financial markets, or put another way, to explain what the benefits are of...

(This piece originally appeared on TabbForum - linked here)

The furore over high frequency trading and rogue algorithms is turning these important trading tools into fodder for the mainstream media. As part of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's Technology...

After encountering the latest Wall Street film ‘Money Never Sleeps’ earlier this week, it’s apparent that it's not just the then-brick-sized mobile phones that have changed since the 1987 installment.

The movie opens with Gordon Gekko, the man who so famously stated, “greed is good” in...

Now that the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act is signed into law, there lies a mountain of work ahead for regulators. Making sense of the 2,000+ page document and turning it into viable recommendations and regulations will be an arduous...

The chaos theory says that small differences in initial conditions can yield widely diverging outcomes. Thus it was that on May 6th when a mutual fund in Kansas entered a rather large ($4.1bn) sell order in E-mini S&P 500 futures contracts on the CME, the reverberations were felt throughout the...