Competition between exchanges can deliver benefits to users over the long term but in the short term it quite often delivers a slap in the face, as US brokerages discovered when the New York Stock Exchange announced that it was going to change its fee structure starting from August 1.
When it was still a member-owned utility the NYSE offered its customers a discount for executing large trades. Just four months on from its public listing via its merger with Archipelago, the exchange has abolished that discount and moved to a new fee structure that will charge users on a per trade basis.
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