Japanese buyside traders seek defence against HFT

After years of stagnation, Japan’s equity market is booming and alternative trading system providers are flocking in. Buyside traders now hope that the stranglehold of HFT firms will be broken.

With its first female prime minister and the stock market at a record high, Japan is attracting a new influx of domestic retail and foreign investment. But first, the country’s buyside giants want to see aspects of Japan’s creaking markets infrastructure to be fixed.

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