Dark pools are private exchange venues used primarily to facilitate large block trades between institutional investors. They are designed to prevent large orders from influencing market prices by ...

In May, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and UBS announced bilateral agreements to offer reciprocal access for algorithmic trades to each other’s "dark pools". Dark pools are matching engines for ...

"Dark Pool." The name itself suggests that something sinister is going on. The term has been featured in several works of fictional mystery, including an episode of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour in the ...

Equity securities are a major component of trading in dark pools. Common stocks, representing ownership in a company, are frequently traded in these private exchanges. These trades are often executed ...

For buy-side traders, executing orders in dark pools has long been akin to navigating vast, fog-covered oceans. Two counterparties may pass within reach of each other, unaware of the liquidity that ...