Opinions

• Regulating the Financial Services Industry Is a Balancing Act
  Getting regulation right is like balancing on a knife's edge - tilt too far one way and the industry is hamstrung; tilt too far the other way and reduce the trust that is required for a functioning capital market.
• Transaction Cost Analysis Provides Important Details About Trade Executions
  Trade confirmations often don't include details that the buy side needs to conduct true transaction cost analysis and identify best execution.
• Transaction Cost Analysis: The New Black
  Trading models seems to be the new fashion on Wall Street.

Research

• TCR: Value and Efficiency
  As transaction cost research gains momentum, it's poised to become an integral part of relationship management while helping to create organizational efficiencies.
• Hedge Funds Warm To Trading Tools
  Hedge funds are interested in tapping direct market access and algorithmic trading tools, but they're not sure how to select and use them.

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2. Buy Side Algo Usage, Block Trading on the Rise: Tabb Report
3. Breaking it Down: An Overview of High-Frequency Trading
4. RBC Capital Markets Transforms Its Trading Floor
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6. Anatomy of a Buy-Side Trader
7. High-Frequency Trading Shops Play the Colocation Game
8. BofA Merrill Lynch Makes Broadcort, Commission Mgmt Appointments
9. Prop Trading Ban Proposal: Desirability vs. Practicality
10. Smart Regulation: Is It Possible?