19 March 2014 | 17:02

New York probes special deals for high-speed traders

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New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman. ©Reuters/Hans Pennink New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman. ©Reuters/Hans Pennink

New York's top prosecutor Tuesday vowed to end special concessions that exchanges provide to high-speed securities traders, giving them an unfair advantage over retail investors, AFP reports. New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said the "special services" include providing high-speed traders with extra network bandwidth, or permitting them to locate computer servers at the exchanges themselves. These services can result in a timing advantage, often in milliseconds, that ensures high-speed traders "risk-free" transactions, Schneiderman said in a statement. "Rather than curbing the worst threats posed by high-frequency traders, our markets are becoming too focused on catering to them," he said. "I am committed to cracking down on fundamentally unfair -- and potentially illegal -- arrangements that give elite groups of traders early access to market-moving information at the expense of the rest of the market." Schneiderman's office recently launched an inquiry into services provided especially to high-speed traders by the New York Stock Exchange, Nasdaq and other exchanges, according to a person familiar with the matter. Both the NYSE and Nasdaq declined comment. The probe is Schneiderman's latest effort to reign in high-speed traders. Last fall, he pressured financial information provider Thomson Reuters to stop supplying market-moving data two seconds early to subscribers -- mainly high-speed traders -- which paid extra for the advantage. Schneiderman also worked to persuade Business Wire, a unit of Berkshire Hathaway that distributes corporate releases, to stop providing documents via direct links to high-speed traders who paid for the more-speedy access to news.


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New York's top prosecutor Tuesday vowed to end special concessions that exchanges provide to high-speed securities traders, giving them an unfair advantage over retail investors, AFP reports. New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said the "special services" include providing high-speed traders with extra network bandwidth, or permitting them to locate computer servers at the exchanges themselves. These services can result in a timing advantage, often in milliseconds, that ensures high-speed traders "risk-free" transactions, Schneiderman said in a statement. "Rather than curbing the worst threats posed by high-frequency traders, our markets are becoming too focused on catering to them," he said. "I am committed to cracking down on fundamentally unfair -- and potentially illegal -- arrangements that give elite groups of traders early access to market-moving information at the expense of the rest of the market." Schneiderman's office recently launched an inquiry into services provided especially to high-speed traders by the New York Stock Exchange, Nasdaq and other exchanges, according to a person familiar with the matter. Both the NYSE and Nasdaq declined comment. The probe is Schneiderman's latest effort to reign in high-speed traders. Last fall, he pressured financial information provider Thomson Reuters to stop supplying market-moving data two seconds early to subscribers -- mainly high-speed traders -- which paid extra for the advantage. Schneiderman also worked to persuade Business Wire, a unit of Berkshire Hathaway that distributes corporate releases, to stop providing documents via direct links to high-speed traders who paid for the more-speedy access to news.
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