NYSE cuts it close

The New York Stock Exchange needs to have its hybrid system ready before Reg NMS takes effect but it has only just completed Phase I. It might not have too much to worry about, though, as many other market participants are unprepared and a delay is widely expected.

Perhaps one of the reasons for New York’s stock exchanges’ apparent preoccupation with Europe is that is provides a welcome diversion from the headache of sorting out their own problems back home.

This April, Phase I of the NYSE’s eagerly awaited hybrid market system was launched. This will allow electronic access to 2,703 NYSE issues previously only traded by the NYSE on its floor.

Introduction of the system, originally designed for the execution of small retail orders, had been waiting for the SEC’s approval, which was finally given at the end of March.

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