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03 March 2014

FN:Mifid2(第二次金融商品市場指令)のダークプール規制、特に中型株の取引に影響する可能性


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More than one quarter of mid-cap stocks would have been hit by new European rules designed to limit trading in private share-trading venues known as dark pools if they had been in force last year.


The rules are fuelling fears that buyside firms will withdraw from investments in the sector. The rules will ban a stock from dark pools if the proportion of total trade done in these venues exceeds 8%, or 4% in any individual dark pool, on a rolling 12-month basis. The results from mid-caps have caused most concern, with the study indicating 26% would have breached the limit and been banned from dark pools.

Mark Hemsley, chief executive of Bats Chi-X Europe, which runs both dark and lit venues, said for small and mid-cap stocks “there is a risk liquidity will decrease and some investors could be in the situation where it will be even more difficult to trade in small or mid-caps. It is not a given that dark trading in these equities will move back to lit exchanges as some regulators envisage.”

Mark Goodman, head of quantitative electronic services for Europe at Société Générale, said: “When fund managers pick stocks to trade, they will generally look at the liquidity of the stocks to understand whether they will give away all their gains upon exiting a position. If you can only exit a position on a lit venue, you will have a much greater impact on the market than you would in a dark pool, which will deter investors from taking these stocks into their portfolios.”

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