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Although lit markets may question the efficacy of dark pools, an increasing number of major exchanges are releasing their own dark platforms. Is opening these platforms exacerbating issues of dwindling lit liquidity, or is this a way to mitigate against further damage? BEST EXECUTION explores the current landscape, speaking to key players to understand the current differentiation between light and dark – and where the shades of grey are falling.

Development will provide KCx with a new front-office equities execution platform which enables clients to observe and manage KCx’s execution flow through one interface.

Equities data from the National Stock Exchange of India (NSE India) and the Bombay Stock Exchange will now be available to BMLL clients via its Data Lab.

It might be a riskier time to work in fintech, but that hasn’t stopped former managing directors (MDs) in banks from moving there. This week, two former JPMorgan MDs have become chief product officers at separate fintechs, one in New York and the other in San Francisco.

Equilend, a technology, data and analytics firm, has launched Orbisa securities lending data on the Bloomberg App Portal, providing a dataset comprising US$32 trillion of global lendable equity and fixed income securities.