This article was written with Stephen Deane and published by Barron’s. At the time he was Senior Director, Capital Markets Policy for the Americas for CFA Institute. It was one of several articles we worked on together regarding market integrity and regulation. In addition, I negotiated a column for Mr. Deane on nasdaq.com where we wrote a number of articles on market integrity and other capital markets issues.

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