This paper provides evidence of the effect of algorithmic trading (AT) in the liquidity of the Brazilian equity market. A wide debate on the literature asserts that AT may be both beneficial and harmful to market quality. The results of our econometric estimates for a sample of 47 stocks through...

When settling their own liabilities and those of their clients, settlement banks rely on incoming payments to fund a part of their outgoing payments. We investigate their behaviour in CHAPS, the United Kingdom’s large-value payment system. Our estimates suggest that in normal times, banks...