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Liquidity management service provider OptimX Markets has partnered with BMO CapitalMarkets to bring the firm’s institutional algorithmic trading flow to institutional buy-side trading desks in European markets. BMO will now offer a range of trading opportunities tailored to their institutional client base through OptimX.
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These communication protocol systems would have to register as exchanges or as broker-dealers, while also complying with Regulation ATS. “We SIFMA has said the proposal lacks coherence on what can be classified as an exchange and a clear rationale behind the expansion of the rule.
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