Equity trading: The technological arms race comes to Europe

Trading will continue to concentrate in the hands of the largest players.

The new year is shaping up to be the one in which multilateral trading facilities and real competition between execution venues finally take off in Europe. Advances in technology and a favourable regulatory regime make it much easier today for new execution venues to win business from incumbent exchanges than ever before.

One likely consequence, apart from lower margins at exchanges, looks set to be a further concentration of institutional business in the hands of the largest brokerage houses.

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