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For years, southern Europe’s markets were dismissed as risky, stagnant, or peripheral. Investors crowded into Germany’s DAX or France’s CAC, while the Athens, Milan, and Madrid exchanges languished on the margins. But that story is quickly changing.

Citadel Securities and its allies are desperate to stop IEX Options’ market launch, but academics and industry experts who spoke to Global Trading dismiss Citadel’s arguments as self-serving, and are coming down on IEX’s side. 

A regulatory probe and bond documents show how a $42 billion war chest and an embrace of risk drive profits.

It’s not every day that a regulator as methodical and reserved as India’s SEBI accuses one of the world’s largest trading firms of a “sinister scheme.”

Retail traders today face a paradox. Markets have never been more accessible, or more hazardous. What looks like opportunity can quickly become a trap, especially in the age of social media-fueled speculation.

In a recent op-ed for the Financial Times, BlackRock Chair and CEO Larry Fink called for the second draft of globalisation. Fink outlined how “the Trump administration’s tariffs are the symptom of a backlash to the era of what might be called ‘globalism without guardrails.’

In a 29-page letter to the SEC, Ken Griffin’s market-making behemoth raised alarm bells over the rise of “private rooms,” opaque trading venues where only select parties are allowed to transact, and the advent of 24-hour markets.

There’s always been a tech war within the trading industry. Our firm prioritizes human insight over algorithms, meaning all the trading decisions are made by humans.

Speed and automation is not necessarily better. We must embrace the human element of trading — leveraging technology to enhance human judgment, not replace it.