This book underscores the complexity of the equity markets, the challenges they face, and the fact that they are still a work in process. Three interacting forces drive market change: competition, technology change, and regulatory change. The markets have one major objective in particular to...

Preface -- Chapter 1 Integrity of Price Discovery -- Chapter 2 A Global Perspective -- Chapter 3 Integrity of Price Discovery -- Chapter 4 Integrity of a Marketplace -- Chapter 5 Trader Perspective -- Chapter 6 Integrity of Market Regulation -- Chapter 7 Equity Trading in the Fast Lane

In the past quarter of a century, the pace of structural change in the equity markets has accelerated dramatically and, as it has, regulation has come to play an increasingly central role in the development of market structure. The purpose of Regulation of U.S. Equity Markets is to consider...