However, the industry should not view the Commission’s decision as a shot across the bow regarding foreign investment in SROs, according to Tyler Gellasch, executive director of the industry organization Healthy Markets Association. “The structure of the deal and the opacity of the ownership, and accountability, likely made this an easy call for the Commission,” […]

“Many of us were concerned as RegA+ was being developed that it would be a disaster for investors,” says Tyler Gellasch, a former SEC staffer who now runs the Healthy Markets Association. “A few years into this experiment, and these results are about as bad for investors as anyone could have predicted.” “A market—an entire […]

Amidst market turmoil and volatility, Healthy Markets Co-Founder spoke with Fox Business.  Amongst other points, “When we had the ‘Flash Crash’ in 2010, we put in a number of plumbing fixes or infrastructure fixes into the marketplace and by all accounts those have really held up with the volatility.” Click here to see the full clip.

The availability of such products to individual investors is part of a trend that has given people more control over their finances and retirement. It has also exposed more of them to getting ripped off, said Tyler Gellasch, executive director of Healthy Markets Association, a Washington-based investor-advocacy group. “We don’t want to deny ordinary Americans […]

Sources interviewed for this story agreed the SEC has not been thorough in its assessment of exchanges’ market data proposals. The SEC generally “rubber stamps” exchange data product proposals, said Tyler Gellasch, executive director of Healthy Markets Association, Washington, a non-profit group of money managers, brokers and pension funds with a combined $1.5 trillion in […]

Which market structure changes do you expect to take place in 2018?  After years of contemplating reforms to how markets operate, the SEC is finally poised to act. With the European regulators, the NY Attorney General, FINRA, and even the courts driving market structure reforms over the past couple years, we expect the SEC to […]

Tyler Gellasch, executive director of the Healthy Markets Association, is against any delay in implementing the CAT. The group is made up of buyside firms – including large asset managers, pension plans and hedge funds – seeking to promote data-driven reform in the U.S. equity market structure. “Exchanges and Finra have not provided new info as […]

But Tyler Gellasch, executive director of the Healthy Markets Association, which represents buyside firms, is quoted saying his group remains opposed to any delay. He suggested critics were playing on “convenient public fear” in order to obstruct the database. Read more in Barron’s here.

The industry body is working on possible alternatives such as legal entity identifiers or a mechanism for large trade reporting. Both of which Tyler Gellasch, executive director of the Healthy Market Association, recommended in his testimony before the House Financial Services Committee’s Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Securities, and Investments in early December. Read more in […]

“The U.S. stock exchanges will be under pressure at a House hearing on Thursday to defend their opposition to the Securities and Exchange Commission’s “consolidated audit trail,” a market surveillance tool envisioned after the “flash crash” of 2010. The hearing is being held to consider legislation designed to stop the CAT. “The for-profit exchanges have […]