All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Exchanges & Capital Markets

Whether markets are up or down - if a trading company such as TD Ameritrade (merged from many different trading companies and platforms), Scottrade, Schwab, Knight, etc runs their business efficiently, trade volume effect growth.Seems that towards the end (long trade exits - short...

Implications: 1.A Troubled Financial Banking Marketplace COULD lead to the concept of US Capitalization, which is the basis of our Financial Heritage. 2.American Bankers in discussions with Foreign Governmental Entities is considered to be Realistic? 3.The Salient Issues on the table - "What is our...

Dollar is the world's reserve currency, the question is if it continues to erode will it remain the world reserve currency? How did we get where we are and what next?

The exponential rise in wealthy individuals in China is staggering.  Relatively young people are becomming billionaires in a very short space of time.  This will continue to increase as China's market accelerates at a phenomenal rate. 

China is in an important transition from its communist 18th century mercantilistic trade policy, based on fixed exchange rates towards a policy of integration into the world trade system, based on floating exchange rates. This leads to an appreciation of the Asian currencies versus the US...

The Vietnamese government is continuing to prepare for the equitization i.e. IPO of two state-owned mobile phone operators MobiFone and VinaPhone. Offerings are usually expensive from different point of views and some figures might be questionable..

MF Global is one of the key players in the global exchange traded derivatives (ETD) brokerage industry with the power to make and potentially, to break, markets, leading to some fascinating -and very significant- political dynamics within the industry. MF Global has been stung by recent activity on...

It is uncertain exactly how much market share erosion European exchanges such as the London Stock Exchange will suffer with the introduction of MiFID, but it is certain they will face much heightened competition for innovative ECN's and ATS's. How the major European exchanges will respond, which alternative...

Reg NMS fundamentally changed U.S. market structure, giving rise to fragmented liquidity, alternative trading systems, and "dark pools." However, the proliferation of execution venues and smart, algorithmic trading systems to access them and attain "best execution" offer investors many intriguing ways...

The  sub-prime crisis  is to an extent a  creation of  Accountants  and  Auditors. Had  the  accounting/auditing   profession  properly  presented  the  value  of  derivative  instruments  held by banks, hedge ...