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Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Cabinet will vote on a bill tomorrow that limits high-frequency trading even for market participants outside Germany and requires automated orders to be marked as such, a government official said.
High-frequency traders will have to seek authorization and will be supervised under the legislation proposal, the official told reporters in Berlin today on condition of anonymity because the bill has not yet been published. High-frequency trade will be curbed and market abuse will be punished, he said in Berlin.
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Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Cabinet will vote on a bill tomorrow that limits high-frequency trading even for market participants outside Germany and requires automated orders to be marked as such, a government official said. Photographer: Hannelore Foerster/Bloomberg
Own-account high-frequency traders such as hedge funds, which don’t need authorization at present, will be covered by the new legislation, the official said. That would affect market participants borrowing access to electronic trading systems from others, he said.
Germany is moving ahead of European attempts to regulate high-frequency trading as it did in the case of short-selling bans, the official said. Still, the government is seeking to make German legislation compatible with later European rules, he said.
Market participants will have to mark orders based on algorithms for regulators to be better able to identify mistakes and manipulation, the official said.
German High-Frequency Bill to Affect Hedge Funds, Official Says - Bloomberg
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