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Exchanges, Trading and Clearing

Regulators clamp down on ‘payment for order flow’ and a lack of carbon offset disclosure. Plus: Traditional and digital exchanges compete for crypto futures trading, and the EU seeks to unify its fragmented trading venues with live databases

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SEC aims to stem trading practice of ‘payment for order flow’
Regulators are asking whether retail investors are better off when brokers ‘sell on’ their trades to wholesalers, for a fee
Critics take aim at ‘wild west’ carbon offset market
Booming sector can be a cheap but opaque way for polluters to claim emission reductions
The future of crypto trading is futures
While traditional exchanges push for a slice of lucrative crypto action, specialist platforms are trading highly regulated US derivatives
EU aims to unify capital markets with live trading databases
Brussels believes a so-called ‘consolidated tape’ will make the bloc’s exchanges more attractive to investors
Ukraine war cuts foreign investors off from their Russian assets
The conflict has dealt a huge blow to the integration of Russian companies with western stock exchanges
Cloud computing powers the world’s financial exchanges
Embracing the cloud is not just a case of improving infrastructure, experts believe, but also a way to drive transformation

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