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Music Lovers to Become Royalty Investors in New Trading Platform
Trading firm GTS and Jukebox partner to create registered app Launch is slated by end of 2023 with over $4 billion of rightsRetail investors will soon get a chance to purchase the music rights of their favorite artist or music catalog, thanks to a developing platform...
GTS to Provide Cross-Asset Market Data Through the Pyth Network
Collaboration between banks and electronic market makers enters next phase New York, NY June 3, 2021 – GTS, a leading electronic market maker across global financial instruments, today announced that it is joining the Pyth Network, a decentralized financial market...
Firms race to transmit Wall Street data at nearly light speed
Ari Rubenstein, a "Star Trek" fan who counts physics as a hobby, wants to boldly go where Wall Street has never gone before: the speed of light. Rubenstein heads Strike Technologies, a New York company that's part of a budding cottage industry racing to...
Regulate me
Earlier this month, the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) released a draft of its 2014 Strategic Plan for public comment. The plan is technical, but the motivation is straightforward: increase investor confidence in our markets. This is a critical goal,...
Thank you, Michael Lewis
Mary Jo White confirmed what everyone on Wall Street has been saying for weeks: Michael Lewis is dead wrong. Responding to a question about Mr. Lewis' controversial book, "Flash Boys," the SEC Chair told Congress: "The markets are not rigged … [they] are the strongest...
GTS’s Ari Rubenstein: A New Breed of Cat
Ari Rubenstein, co-founder and CEO of Global Trading Systems, talks about the market maker's move into the FX space, why he's excited about regulation, and how he's positioning GTS to be a different breed of high-speed trading firm. Read more
Canada’s TMX Confirms StrikeNet Buy to Link to U.S. Markets
Canada's TMX Group Ltd. confirmed Thursday it is buying StrikeNET, a unit of highfrequency trading firm Global Trading Systems LLC, to launch a microwave network linking markets in Toronto, New York and Chicago. Read more
Global Trading Systems Taps Credit Suisse Electronic Fixed-Income Chief
Ryan Sheftel, the global head of fixed-income electronic trading atCredit Suisse Group AG, left the firm earlier this month to take up a new post at Global Trading Systems LLC, said people familiar with the matter. Global Trading Systems is a large computer-driven...
Big Investor Involvement Could Boost Bitcoin
Some of the U.S.’s biggest proprietary traders and investors are testing the waters for a bigger move into bitcoin, giving a potential boost to the fledgling virtual-currency industry. Read more
This High-Speed Trader Says Thanks, Regulators
The Securities and Exchange Commission recently proposed a new rule requiring that all off-exchange trading firms become members of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (Finra), an industry-funded regulator of brokers that the commission oversees....
GTS to Become Designated Market Maker on the New York Stock Exchange
NEW YORK, Jan. 26, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- GTS, an automated market maker in thousands of equities, ETFs, commodities, futures, foreign exchange and interest rate products, today announced that its subsidiary, GTS Securities LLC, plans to become a Designated...
Bloomberg TV talks with Ari Rubenstein, CEO of GTS on DMM Deal
GTS will become the largest Designated Market Maker on the New York Stock Exchange floor after agreeing to purchase Barclays Plc’s DMM trading business. The announcement means that high-speed trading firms now manage the buying and selling of...
THE MONDAY INTERVIEW: A former flash boy – Ari Rubenstein, CEO, Global Trading Systems
"When Ari Rubenstein heard that Michael Lewis was writing a book on his industry, he was overjoyed. A fan of the author, Mr Rubenstein assumed that his tribe of high-frequency traders would be portrayed as underdog heroes who took on and triumphed over a...
What Do Berkshire, Twitter and Alibaba Have in Common?
Global Trading Systems, one of four high-frequency-trading firms managing just about all the trading on the NYSE floor, is making a play for corporate clients. It’s the end of another day on the New York Stock Exchange in Lower Manhattan, and that means it’s Global...
BNP Paribas and GTS team up for US Treasuries trading
French bank BNP Paribas and market maker Global Trading Systems are teaming up to trade US Treasuries, adding to a string of deals in which banks have tapped the computing power of high frequency traders rather than face the costly task of revamping their...
Firms race to transmit Wall Street data at nearly light speed
Ari Rubenstein, a "Star Trek" fan who counts physics as a hobby, wants to boldly go where Wall Street has never gone before: the speed of light. Rubenstein heads Strike Technologies, a New York company that's part of a budding cottage industry racing to...
Regulate me
Earlier this month, the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) released a draft of its 2014 Strategic Plan for public comment. The plan is technical, but the motivation is straightforward: increase investor confidence in our markets. This is a critical goal,...
Thank you, Michael Lewis
Mary Jo White confirmed what everyone on Wall Street has been saying for weeks: Michael Lewis is dead wrong. Responding to a question about Mr. Lewis' controversial book, "Flash Boys," the SEC Chair told Congress: "The markets are not rigged … [they] are the strongest...
GTS’s Ari Rubenstein: A New Breed of Cat
Ari Rubenstein, co-founder and CEO of Global Trading Systems, talks about the market maker's move into the FX space, why he's excited about regulation, and how he's positioning GTS to be a different breed of high-speed trading firm. Read more
Canada’s TMX Confirms StrikeNet Buy to Link to U.S. Markets
Canada's TMX Group Ltd. confirmed Thursday it is buying StrikeNET, a unit of highfrequency trading firm Global Trading Systems LLC, to launch a microwave network linking markets in Toronto, New York and Chicago. Read more
Global Trading Systems Taps Credit Suisse Electronic Fixed-Income Chief
Ryan Sheftel, the global head of fixed-income electronic trading atCredit Suisse Group AG, left the firm earlier this month to take up a new post at Global Trading Systems LLC, said people familiar with the matter. Global Trading Systems is a large computer-driven...
Big Investor Involvement Could Boost Bitcoin
Some of the U.S.’s biggest proprietary traders and investors are testing the waters for a bigger move into bitcoin, giving a potential boost to the fledgling virtual-currency industry. Read more
This High-Speed Trader Says Thanks, Regulators
The Securities and Exchange Commission recently proposed a new rule requiring that all off-exchange trading firms become members of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (Finra), an industry-funded regulator of brokers that the commission oversees....
GTS to Become Designated Market Maker on the New York Stock Exchange
NEW YORK, Jan. 26, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- GTS, an automated market maker in thousands of equities, ETFs, commodities, futures, foreign exchange and interest rate products, today announced that its subsidiary, GTS Securities LLC, plans to become a Designated...
Bloomberg TV talks with Ari Rubenstein, CEO of GTS on DMM Deal
GTS will become the largest Designated Market Maker on the New York Stock Exchange floor after agreeing to purchase Barclays Plc’s DMM trading business. The announcement means that high-speed trading firms now manage the buying and selling of...
THE MONDAY INTERVIEW: A former flash boy – Ari Rubenstein, CEO, Global Trading Systems
"When Ari Rubenstein heard that Michael Lewis was writing a book on his industry, he was overjoyed. A fan of the author, Mr Rubenstein assumed that his tribe of high-frequency traders would be portrayed as underdog heroes who took on and triumphed over a...
What Do Berkshire, Twitter and Alibaba Have in Common?
Global Trading Systems, one of four high-frequency-trading firms managing just about all the trading on the NYSE floor, is making a play for corporate clients. It’s the end of another day on the New York Stock Exchange in Lower Manhattan, and that means it’s Global...
BNP Paribas and GTS team up for US Treasuries trading
French bank BNP Paribas and market maker Global Trading Systems are teaming up to trade US Treasuries, adding to a string of deals in which banks have tapped the computing power of high frequency traders rather than face the costly task of revamping their...
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