Policy Perspectives: Market Structure and the Impact of Dark Trading (Video)

With the volume of dark liquidity growing by nearly 50% over the past three years to account for approximately a third of total volume, there is a clear shift in the equity market structure away from trading on public exchanges and toward dark, or undisplayed venues.

Rhodri Preece, CFA, director of capital markets policy at CFA Institute and author of the report Dark Pools, Internalization, and Equity Market Quality, and Jim Allen, CFA, head of capital markets policy at CFA Institute, discuss how these undisplayed trading venues affect market quality, the potential impact on investors, and policy recommendations.