Prof. Donefer's Recent Press Citations and Public Appearances

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2020

• Reforming the SIP with Odd Lots and Competing Consolidators, Traders Magazine, March 26, 2020 

2019

• A Bid for Operational-Risk Data Aggregation and Standardization, GARP Risk Intelligence, October 4, 2019

• Where New Breed Fin Techs Find Their Risk Managers, GARP Risk Intelligence, December 13, 2019

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• DLT Consortiums, Platforms and Interoperability: Moving from POC to Production, Moderator, Tabb Group FinTech Festival 2019, New York

2018

• The Dow Dive Computers May Have Caused, NPR Marketplace, February 6, 2018

• Beyond Blockchain: The Impact of Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence on Litigation, Panelist,The 12th Annual Gibbons E-Discovery Conference, 2018, New Jersey

2017​

• Four Perspectives on Bitcoinmania, American Banker, December 22, 2107

• Robo Investing, Science and U!, CUNY TV, May 2, 2017

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2016

• Blockchain: Standards Wanted, GARP Risk Intelligence, April 8, 2016 

• NYSE Proposes Changes, as It Braces for More Volatility, Wall Street Journal, January 29, 2016

• NYSE Outlines Priorities for Enhancing Market Structure, Dow Jones Business News, January 28, 2016

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• "Processing, Technology and Operational Risk Implications of Blockchain Migration", Panel Moderator, Global Financial Insight, Blockchain in Capital Markets, 2016, NYC

• "Blockchain", Invited Speaker, The Regulatory Fundamentals Group, 2016, NYC

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2015

• Why not to freak out about the NYSE trading halt, American Public Radio Market Place, July 8, 2015, audio link

• SIFMA Tears Into Nasdaq Pricing In Market Data Row, Law 360, April 22, 2015

• SEC Told Nasdaq, NYSE Prices Hit Returns In Market Data Row, Law 360, April 23, 2015

• "Fundamentals of High Frequency Trading", Webcast, Gerson Lehrman Group, 2015, NYC

• "Market Data in Support of Equity Trading", Panel Moderator, FISD Issue Brief, 2015, NYC

• "Capital Markets Trading Activity in the Cloud Technology Age and Cloud Centric Applications in Data Centers", Panel Moderator, HPC for Wall Street, 2015, NYC

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2014

• High Speed Trading Under Siege, Compliance Week, April 15, 2014

• Goldman Sachs "Cuts Out" NYSE Market Business, Sohu.Com (Chinese News Service), April 2, 2014

• Goldman in Talks to Sell NYSE Floor-Trading Unit to Dutch Firm, Wall Street Journal, April 2, 2014

• Secrets' Behind High Frequency Trading, ECNS.CN (E Chinese News Service), April 3, 2014

• High Frequency Trading Under Investigation, CCTV America (China Central Television), Biz Asia America TV Interview, April 3, 2014

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• "TradeTech 2014 Buy Side Summit", Chairman, 2014, NYC

• "Do You Know Where Your Orders Are Being Routed?", Panel Moderator, TradeTech Buy Side Summit, 2014, NYC

• "One Touch Coverage: What Do The Partnerships Between the Cash & Electronic Desks Mean For the Buy Side?", Panel Moderator, TradeTech Buy Side Summit, 2014, NYC

• "Fireside Chat with Donald Bollerman, IEX Market", TradeTech Buy Side Summit, 2014, NYC

2013

• Study: Rebates Are Key to Where Brokers Route Orders, Wall Street Journal , December 13, 2013

• Raging Bulls: How Wall Street Became Dependent on the "Speed" of Trading, Gagamir (Russian) , November 28, 2013.

• HFT Debate: Two Experts Square Off On Market Structure, Advanced Trader, May 1, 2013

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• "The Regulation of Cross-Border Trading", Speaker, Committee on Foreign and Comparative Law of the New York City Bar Association, 2013, NYC.

• "High Frequency Trading and the Financial Markets", Speaker, Council on Foreign Relations, 2013, Washington DC.

• "Debating High Frequency Trading", Speaker, Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity, 2013, NYC.

• "High Frequency Trading - Are Markets and Investors Better Off Now", Panel Moderator, SIIA/FISD Issue Brief, 2013, NYC.

• TradeTech USA Global Trading Conference, Chairman, 2013, NYC.

• "Improving Trade Performance By Establishing Best Practices For Dark Pool Trading & Venue Selection", Panel Moderator, TradeTech, 2013, NYC.

• "Best Practices Panel: How To Pay Your Mid-Tier Brokers", Panel Moderator, TradeTech, 2013, NYC.

• "Developing Your Flexible & Dependable OMS/EMS Strategy", Panel Moderator, TradeTech, 2013, NYC.

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2012

• Markets Face Challenge Reopening After Sandy, NPR Marketplace, October 30, 2012.

• Kill Switches May Be Too Difficult to Implement, Reuters Accelus, October 17, 2012.

• Drop Copies vs. Kill Switches: What's Next for HFT?, CFTC Law, October 18, 2012.

• Execution Consulting Services, Streambase Webinar, September 2012.

• Everything You Need to Know About the Knight Capital Meltdown, Motley Fool, September 14, 2012.

• How Wall Street Got Addicted to Light Speed Trading, Wired, September 2012.

• Living With High-Speed Trading, Wall Street Journal, Aug 11, 2012.

• Hiccups with HFT Create Market-wide Risks, Investor Advisor Week, Aug 13, 2012.

• Knight Says Company May Suffer More Losses From Trade Error, Bloomberg, Aug 9, 2012.

• Knight Capital Gets Backstop, Regulators Under Pressure to Stop Flash Crashes, Globe and Mail, Canada, August 6, 2012.

• Board Software Breakdown Shows Dependence on the PC, Wiener Zeitung, Austria, August 6, 2012.

• Knight Capital Breakdown Reveals Problem of the Stock Markets, der Standard, Austria August 6, 2012.

• Knight Looking for a White Knight, Reuters Video, August 3, 2012.

• How We Trade, Reuters Video, August 3, 2012.

• Knight Capital Failures Highlight the Weak Stock Market, Reuters China, August 3, 2012.

• Software errors, Knight Cap Loss of U.S. $ 440 Jt, Inilah.com, Indonesia, Aug 3, 2012.

• Knight Capital Trading Loss Shows Cracks in Equity Markets, Economic Times of India, August 3, 2012.

• Why Knight Won't Be the Only One, CNN Money, August 3, 2012.

• Knight Capital Filings Show Scant Board Duty for Tech Risks, Reuters, August 3, 2012.

• IBM, Coke Investors Whipsawed by Hourly Swings, Business Week, July 19, 2012.

• High Speed Trading Is Progress, Not Piracy, Bloomberg View, April 12, 2012.

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• "Portfolio Asset Allocation and Downside Risk Management", Panel Moderator, 2012 Investment Leadership Forum, 2012, NYC.

• "When Big Data Gets Fast, Realtime Business Cases", Invited Speaker, Orange Institute -- Feedback Economy and Realtime Society, 2012, NYC.

• "Winning the e-Trading Technology Arms Race", Panel Moderator, FX Week USA Annual Conference, 2012, NYC.

• "Educational Teleconference on High Frequency Trading", Invited Speaker, Council of Institutional Investors, 2012.

• "Trading Strategies & Technology", Track Chairman, TradeTech, 2012, NYC.

• "Aligning Smart Order and Dark Pool Aggregation Techniques with Trading Strategies", Panel Moderator, TradeTech, 2012, NYC.

• "Multi-Asset Trading Strategies", Panel Moderator, TradeTech, 2012, NYC.

• "Elusive Liquidity: Perceptions, Myths & Realities", Panel Moderator, TradeTech, 2012, NYC.

• "OMS Comparative Analysis: Different Approaches For Out-Of-The-Box and Proprietary Systems",Panel Moderator, TradeTech, 2012, NYC.

• "Operational Risk", Panelist, Conference on Post Crisis Risk Management, Fordham University, 2012, NYC.

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Earlier Press Citations -- Available on Request

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• NYSE Plans "Dark Orders" for Retail Customers, Financial Times, October 12, 2011.

• Prof Tracks Auto Crash Trades, New York Convergence, August 9, 2011.

• Computer Systems Run World Economy, American Public Radio, August 9, 2011.

• A Beating of Wings, (Italian and English), Il Sole 24 Ore, May 19, 2011.

• HFT Methodologies and Market Impact, Review of Futures Markets, Vol 19 # 1, 2011.

• Trading Spike Seen Just Before ADP Report, Wall Street Journal, January 11, 2011.

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• Das Digitale Herz des Kapitalismus (in German), Wissen Magazine, Switzerland, November 21, 2010.

• The Limits of Algo Trading, Deutsche Borse Business Journal, 3Q2010.

• SEC Focuses on Market Makers, Financial Times, November 9, 2010.

• Trading Pennies into $7B Drives HFT Cowboys, Bloomberg, October 6, 2010.

• Debate on Crash and Its Causes, Wall Street Journal, October 5, 2010.

• Flash Crash Report Too Long in the Making, Reuters Insider, Video, October 1, 2010.

• Flash Crash, Australian Broadcasting Co.(Radio), August 29, 2010.

• No Such Thing as HFT, Tabb Forum, August 24,2010.

• Beware of Geeks Bearing Gifts, Money Web South Africa, August 12,2010.

• Adventures in Algorithmic Trading, Asset International, August 5, 2010.

• Monsters in the Market, The Atlantic Magazine, July/August 2010.

• Automated Trading Compounds Selloff, Yahoo News Room, May 7, 2010.

• Computers Blamed for Wall Street Crash, New Scientist, May 2010.

• Exposing the Identity of Dark Pools, Advanced Trader, March 1, 2010.

• Algos Gone Wild, Journal Of Trading, Spring 2010.

• Trading Shares in Milliseconds, MIT Technology Review, Jan. 2010.

• Algos Gone Wild, Advanced Trader, Jan. 14, 2010.

• Market Data Roundtable, Streambase Webinar, Jan. 21, 2010.

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• Algos Gone Wild (TV Interview), Reuters TV, Interview Nov. 2009.

• SEC Rules to Make Dark Pools Disclose Data, Investors Business Daily, Oct. 21, 2009.

• Ultra High Speed Share Trading, BBC World Service, (Radio), Sep. 2,2009.

• Wall Street Secrets, New York Times, Aug. 24,2009.

• Real Time Racing, Risk Professional GARP, Aug. 2009.

• StreamBase High Frequency Trading, On-line Webinar, Aug. 12, 2009.

• Algos Gone Wild, Reuters Blog Commentaries, July 21, 2009.

• Code Green: Goldman Sachs and UBS, Securities Industry News, July 20, 2009.

• The Matrix But With Money, Ars Technica, July 27, 2009.

• Fuzzy Math and Algos, Reuters Blog Commentaries, July 31, 2009.

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Earlier Speaking Engagements

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• "There Is No Such Thing As HFT", Keynote, Financial Information Services Division, Software & Information Industry Association, General Meeting, 2011, NYC.

• "What are the key conditions that foster HFT growth in the options and futures markets?", Panelist, High Frequency Trading World New York, 2011.

• "Business Development and Front Office Focus", Track Chairman, Trade Tech Architecture, 2011, NYC.

• "Navigating and Managing Infrastructure Investments Transaction As Volumes Increase", Panel Moderator,Trade Tech Architecture, 2011, NYC.

• "The Latency Debate-Defining and Measuring Latency in Today's Marketplace", Panel Moderator, Trade Tech Architecture, 2011, NYC.

• "Realization of Market Data Infrastructure", Panel Moderator, Trade Tech Architecture, 2011, NYC.

• "Next Generation Trading Strategies", Track Chairman, TradeTech USA 2011, NYC.

• "Obtaining Real Time Venue Transparency in Dark Pools", Panel Moderator, TradeTech USA 2011, NYC.

• "Investigating Options Trading Technology and Market Structure of the Future", Panel Moderator, TradeTech USA 2011, NYC.

• "Algo Trading and the May 6th Flash Crash", keynote speaker, Exchange Panel Moderator, Capital Markets Consortium, 2010, NYC.

• "Achieving Best Execution", Track Chairman, TradeTech USA, 2010, NYC.

• "Analyzing Execution Quality To Achieve Best Execution In A Fragmented Market", Moderator, TradeTech, USA 2010, NYC.

• "Balancing The Use Of Human Intervention And Electronic Trading Tools To Become The Most Profitable Equity Trader", Moderator, TradeTech USA 2010, NYC.

• "Risks in Electronic Trading", keynote speaker, Exchange Panel Moderator, Capital Markets Consortium, 2010, NYC.

• "Credit Default SWAPS and AIG", invited speaker, Financial Executives International, 2010, NYC.

• "International and Alternative Trading Opportunities", Track Chairman, TradeTech USA 2009, NYC.

• "Using the Latest Trading Strategies and Tools in Emerging Markets to Amplify Returns on Your Desk", Moderator, TradeTech USA 2009, NYC.

• "Managing International Trading for Long Term Profitability in Global Markets", Moderator, TradeTech USA 2009, NYC.

• "Home is Where the Credit Crisis Is", invited speaker, Association of Commercial Finance Attorneys, 2009, NYC.

• "Capital Markets BootCampsm", SEO NYC and Corporate Clients in NYC, Boston, LA and Madrid.

• "Risk Management for Non-Quantssm", Instructor for 2-day seminars in NYC, Chicago, Toronto, Oxford, UK, Philadelphia, Washington DC and Boston

• "Credit Default SWAPS and AIG", invited speaker, Financial Executives International, 2010, NYC.

• "International and Alternative Trading Opportunities", Track Chairman, TradeTech USA 2009, NYC.

• "Using the Latest Trading Strategies and Tools in Emerging Markets to Amplify Returns on Your Desk", Moderator, TradeTech USA 2009, NYC.