Destroying civilization as we know it never figured into Hedgzilla and Finothra's plans. It's just that, you know, stuff happens. Did I really destroy your house with my giant tail? Golly. How about -- I know! -- a visit to the house in East Hampton for my larger-than-life friends.

Bernie Madoff's primary occupation of being a prison inmate has apparently lost its thrill because he's taken up a new hobby: opining on the state of ...

What did the SEC do when it realized the danger to other investors from high-speed trading? Did it warn the American people? Order high speed trading to cease? Ban algorithms designed to cheat other investors? Absolutely not!

Speed traders make a fraction of a penny in fees, paid by stock exchanges, for each of the quadrillions of orders that traders can execute within mere seconds -- while losing no money, ever.

Don't call it a dark pool. On Wednesday, the Securities and Exchange Commission approved a new trading program at the New York Stock Exchange int...

The question is explored broadly in Dark Pools: High-Speed Traders, A.I. Bandits, and the Threat to the Global Financial System.

The CBS 60 Minutes segment last night on high speed computer trading-50%-70% of all trading in stocks- strongly suggested that insiders on Wall St...

Banks are just too slow at innovating the customer experience, leaving social media and mobile internet banking to third-parties, telecoms operators, device manufacturers, and tech start-ups.

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The Securities and Exchange Commission is proposing tough new regulations of anonymous trading platforms that compete with traditional stock exchanges...

In a document handed to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the investment bank asserts that such practices, some of which the SEC is loo...