Mexican Government Bonds Antitrust Litigation – Updates on Settlement and Reconsideration Motion

Mexican Government Bonds Antitrust Litigation – Updates on Settlement and Reconsideration Motion

We’ve covered In re Mexican Government Bonds Antitrust Litigation, 18-cv-02830 (In re MGB) pretty extensively in the past so we thought it was appropriate to share one more post to wrap up our discussions of the settlements, and where the case goes from here. Continue reading Mexican Government Bonds Antitrust Litigation – Updates on Settlement and Reconsideration Motion

Trickery in High Frequency Trading: Part 3

Trickery in High Frequency Trading: Part 3

It has been a long while since we have updated this particular blog series, but we’re back again with a look at some of the more recent developments in the set of related litigations targeting certain practices adopted by several stock exchanges (the “Exchange Defendants”) which increase the speed at which high-frequency traders (“HFTs”) can execute their trades. For a full refresher, I’d encourage you to take a peek at our two previous posts on this topic, but let it suffice to say here that the investor plaintiffs believe that the Exchange Defendants – motivated by the increased fees associated with the rise of high-frequency trading – created products and services that allowed the HFT firms to prey on other investors via allegedly manipulative trading schemes. Continue reading Trickery in High Frequency Trading: Part 3