Financial Regulatory Forum

By Jonathan Spicer
NEW YORK, Oct 20 (Reuters) – U.S. Senator Charles Schumer on Tuesday jumped in to the debate over anonymous trading venues known as dark pools, calling for tough new regulations a day before the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission meets to consider new rules.  Schumer, among the most vocal of lawmakers pressing for market structure reform, urged in a letter to SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro that the regulator adopt some of the most robust measures now on the table, and called for a new market-wide monitor.

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By Jonathan Spicer
NEW YORK, Aug 24 (Reuters) – Senator Ted Kaufman on Monday asked U.S. regulators to undertake a comprehensive review of several “questionable” developments in the structure of capital markets, the latest lawmaker to weigh in on so-called dark pools, flashes, and high-frequency trading.

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WASHINGTON/NEW YORK, Aug 4 (Reuters) – A U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ban on so-called flash orders is “imminent,” a senior lawmaker said on Tuesday — just before the agency itself said it was drawing up plans to ban the controversial services offered by some stock exchanges.  Democratic U.S. Senator Charles Schumer said SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro had personally assured him that the agency planned to ban the practice of “flash trading,” which gives advance knowledge of stock orders to certain traders. (more…)

By Jonathan Spicer

NEW YORK, July 24 (Reuters) – U.S. Senator Charles Schumer warned a top regulator on Friday that if she does not ban so-called “flashes” — orders that stock exchanges send to a select group of traders before revealing them to the wider market — he will introduce legislation that does. (more…)