Markets

Automated trading restrictions

Name: Automated trading restrictions
Uploaded: 2012-05-04T16:46:33.635Z
Duration: 5 min 15 s
Channel: Financial Times
Description: John Bates on surviving ESMA surveillance

Automated trading is facing new regulation. John Bates, chief technology officer at Progress Software, says high-frequency trading is facing a clampdown despite little evidence that it is detrimental to markets. He explains to Philip Stafford of FT Trading Room how surveillance should operate across markets.

May 4, 2012

Produced by Darryl Thomson. Filmed by Rod Fitzgerald and James MacDonald.