The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association is bringing together leading industry professionals and regulators to address the changing landscape of the U.S. securities markets and the many regulatory proposals recently issued by, or anticipated from, the SEC, exchanges and FINRA. These proposals address all aspects of our market structure, including circuit breakers for single stocks and across markets, access to the markets, hidden liquidity/dark pools, algorithmic trading, high frequency trading, clearly erroneous trades, short sales, and trade reporting requirements. Panelists will offer regulatory and business views on these and other proposals, and their insights into the proposals’ impact for years to come. Discussions also will focus on the impact of possible exchange mergers and the shifting universe of trading platforms, and on firms’ increasingly innovative business strategies (both buy-side and sell-side) in the face of this changing landscape.
PROGRAM TOPICS INCLUDE:
• May 6th flash crash
• Single stock circuit breakers/limit up-limit down mechanism
• Market-wide circuit breakers
• Clearly erroneous trades
• Market maker obligations
• Dark pools
• High frequency trading and high speed trading
• Algorithmic trading
• Co-location
• Sponsored access to the markets
• Market liquidity
• Transparency issues
• Short sale alternative uptick rule
• Large trader reporting system
• OATS changes, including re: new FINRA Manning rule
• Consolidated audit trail
• Dodd-Frank Financial Regulatory Reform – impact on market structure/trading
• MiFID, IOSCO and other global initiatives in many of the above areas
