The SEC voted late last month to move ahead with the final phase of the consolidated audit trail (CAT) project, part of a proposed national market system (NMS) plan to “create a single, comprehensive database that would enable regulators to efficiently track all trading activity in the U.S. equity and options market,” officials say. The… Read More >>
ATS Firm Broadens Surveillance via Enterprise-Wide Platform
A broker-dealer/alternative trading system, PDQ ATS, has deployed the Validus run-time enterprise risk and compliance platform from Eventus Systems in order to get a broader view of risk exposure, say officials at the firm and the vendor. From its headquarters in Glenview, Ill., PDQ ATS provides liquidity aggregation for market participants via an auction process,… Read More >>
