HMA In the News

Chris Nagy Appears on Fox Business

February 9, 2018

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.

Amateur Investors Get Burned By Wall Street’s Hottest Trade

February 7, 2018

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 […]

Fears grow as exchanges up sales of data

January 22, 2018

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 […]

Outlook 2018: Tyler Gellasch, Healthy Markets Association

December 31, 2017

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 […]

Broker-Dealer Firms Raise Alarms That SEC’s CAT Database Isn’t Secure

December 12, 2017

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 […]

Broker-Dealers Voice Worries About SEC Database

December 12, 2017

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.

SIFMA Wants a PII-less CAT

December 12, 2017

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 […]

Hearing Prep:

November 30, 2017

“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 […]

U.S. stock trading audit system delayed by hack fears

November 30, 2017

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 […]

Legislators ponder cybersecurity of market auditing system

November 30, 2017

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 […]