Marius Zoican
Finance professor at University of Toronto. Interested in securities exchanges, technology, and investments.
Michael Brolley
Marius Zoican
U.K.-based evidence (Aquilina, Budish, O'Neill, 2020) shows that latency arbitrage races are:
Speed bumps | Batch auctions | |
---|---|---|
Liquidity | 😃😃 | 😃😃 |
Exchange revenue | 😞 | 😞😞 |
Implementation difficulty | 😐 | 😞😞 |
Regulatory challenges | 😐 | 😞 |
Two parameters:
Two important outcomes:
How does the fee magnitude impact revenues?
Co-location fees do not scale with trading activity and
they need to be paid in advance on all exchanges.
We calibrate caps on a constant fee structure:
Speed bumps | Batch auctions | Micro-burst fees | |
---|---|---|---|
Liquidity | 😃😃 | 😃😃 | 😃 |
Exchange revenue | 😞 | 😞😞 | 😃 |
Implementation diff. | 😐 | 😞😞 | 😐/😃 |
Regulatory hurdle | 😐 | 😞 | 😐/😃 |
By Marius Zoican
TMX Group presentation on May 19, 2021
Finance professor at University of Toronto. Interested in securities exchanges, technology, and investments.