Dark pools volumes have increased significantly over the last decade. This has raised concerns on the reliability of reference prices used by these pools, and asymmetric participant outcomes via “latency arbitrage”. Using a novel data set provided by the major UK exchanges and dark pools...

We examine the introduction of an asymmetric, randomized speed bump that allows low-latency liquidity providers to avoid order-flow driven adverse selection by reacting to activity on other venues. The speed bump segments order flow and increases profits for fast liquidity providers on that...

We investigate stale reference pricing and liquidity provision in dark pools using proprietary, participant-level regulatory data. We show a substantial amount of stale trading occurs, imposing large adverse selection costs on passive dark pool participants. Consistent with these costs, HFTs...