Equity Markets Conference

On December 9, 2010, ICI hosted their Equity Markets Conference in New York, NY. The conference focused on regulatory developments, compliance issues, and market structure changes impacting funds.

MATERIALS

• Speaker biographies (pdf)
• Current Market Structure Issues in the U.S. Equity and Options Markets (pdf)

HIGHLIGHTS

• Participants received up-to-the-minute information on the latest regulatory developments and structural changes in the securities markets from senior representatives of the SEC, FINRA, securities exchanges, mutual funds, broker-dealers, and other market participants
• Panel topics included:
  • Post-May 6 "flash crash" issues
  • High-frequency trading and high-speed trading
  • Dark pools
  • Transparency of order routing and execution practices
  • Market maker obligations
  • Broker-dealer internalization
  • Regulatory reform
  • Trading compliance challenges for funds
  • Globalization of the securities markets