Financial Markets

(asked on 23rd January 2015) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the risks and fairness of high speed trading.


Answered by
 Portrait
Lord Deighton
This question was answered on 4th February 2015

The Government sponsored the Foresight Project, which reported in 2012, to analyse the role of computer-based trading, including high frequency trading, in financial markets[1].

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/future-of-computer-trading-in-financial-markets-an-international-perspective

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