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 […]

One worry is that the system does not, at present, identify who is trading. Without such information it will be less useful and have weaker cyber security, said Tyler Gellasch, executive director of pension plan and investment advisor trade group Healthy Markets Association. “The legislation this committee … is considering would unquestionably delay the CAT […]

But Tyler Gellasch, the executive director of the Healthy Markets Association, argued that the cybersecurity concerns raised by Huizenga and others are little more than a smokescreen to continue to delay CAT’s release. CAT has been under development since 2010 and has had repeated deadline extensions. It took until this year to finally select a […]

Fellow witness, Tyler Gellasch, executive director of the Healthy Markets Association, testified that the use of legal entity identifiers or large trader IDs could provide regulators with an elegant method to identify a trade’s beneficial owner without relying on PII, “but that is not how the plan was developed. Without access to PII or its […]

US equity exchanges increasingly depend on charging for data in a world of rapid-fire automated trading and that has sparked plenty of friction with the broader market. In the latest salvo, Healthy Markets Association, an investor trade group whose dozen or so members include Calpers and OppenheimerFunds, this week released a report on market data […]

On enforcement matters, SEC staff “try to negotiate their way through things to keep it all moving” and avoid complications, said Tyler Gellasch, a former Stein counsel and executive director of the Healthy Markets Association trade group. “Commissioners typically aren’t eager to hold up a case just because they may deadlock on something political that […]