Bloomberg Market Structure Experts: IntelligentCross' Performance is "Testing the Exchange Status Quo"

Bloomberg’s Market Structure Research Team took a deep dive into IntelligentCross’ performance, displayed liquidity, and role within the exchange and ATS ecosystem.

ASPEN impressed them. Here’s what they found:

A unique matching solution with advantages like adverse-selection protection, higher quote stability, lower markouts and price improvement.

•  Liquidity providers are displaying  better prices than on the exchanges because of performance, and doing so in many symbols.

•  Average 29% spread improvement on displayed orders that arrived priced better than the NBBO.

Order size averaging 70-80% higher than the industry median trade.

The full report is available to Bloomberg Terminal subscribers.

Bloomberg’s Market Structure Research Team took a deep dive into IntelligentCross’ performance, displayed liquidity, and role within the exchange and ATS ecosystem.

ASPEN impressed them. Here’s what they found:

A unique matching solution with advantages like adverse-selection protection, higher quote stability, lower markouts and price improvement.

•  Liquidity providers are displaying  better prices than on the exchanges because of performance, and doing so in many symbols.

•  Average 29% spread improvement on displayed orders that arrived priced better than the NBBO.

Order size averaging 70-80% higher than the industry median trade.

The full report is available to Bloomberg Terminal subscribers.