{"id":51844,"date":"2020-07-23T15:11:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-23T15:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/2020\/07\/23\/was-citadel-securities-not-supposed-to-sit-on-client-orders-to-fill-its-own\/"},"modified":"2020-07-23T15:11:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T15:11:00","slug":"was-citadel-securities-not-supposed-to-sit-on-client-orders-to-fill-its-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/07\/23\/was-citadel-securities-not-supposed-to-sit-on-client-orders-to-fill-its-own\/","title":{"rendered":"Was Citadel Securities Not Supposed To Sit On Client Orders To Fill Its Own?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"233\" height=\"24\" src=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/4221-imgpsh_fullsize_anim.png\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;\" link_thumbnail=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ken Griffin is known to be rather&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dealbreaker.com\/2020\/01\/citadel-sues-gsa\">particular&nbsp;<\/a>about the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dealbreaker.com\/2009\/10\/former-citadel-high-frequency-head-terrified-of-porn-not-prosecutors\">security&nbsp;<\/a>and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dealbreaker.com\/2014\/08\/ex-citadel-programmer-has-learned-nothing-from-sergey-aleynikov\">use&nbsp;<\/a>of his&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dealbreaker.com\/2014\/08\/former-citadel-programmer-decides-to-plead-guilty\">trade secrets<\/a>. And, as it turns out,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/dc3f8fb5-62e7-4774-98bb-28db801589ee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">those of his clients as well<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"m-blockquote\">\n<p>Over a two-year period until September 2014, the market-maker removed hundreds of thousands of large OTC orders from its automated trading processes, according to Finra. That rendered the orders &ldquo;inactive&rdquo; and so they had to be handled manually by human traders.<\/p>\n<p>Citadel Securities then &ldquo;traded for its own account on the same side of the market at prices that would have satisfied the orders,&rdquo; without immediately filling the inactive orders at the same or better prices as required by Finra rules, the regulator said&hellip;.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly half of the 467 limit orders reviewed by the regulator in the six years until September 2018 were found to violate Finra&rsquo;s requirements to display orders. The bulk of the violations were for failing to execute trades against existing quotations in a timely manner, Finra said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagobusiness.com\/article\/20170203\/NEWS01\/170209978\/chicago-billionaire-ken-griffin-splits-citadel-into-two-companies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Whoever&nbsp;<\/a>could have&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/4a439398-88ab-442a-9927-e743a3ff609b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">seen&nbsp;<\/a>such a conflict of interest coming at a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dealbreaker.com\/2017\/06\/ken-griffin-has-big-banks-right-where-he-wants-them\">trading outfit owned by a hedge fund manager<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/dc3f8fb5-62e7-4774-98bb-28db801589ee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">US regulator fines Citadel Securities over trading breach<\/a>&nbsp;[FT]<\/p>\n<p class=\"tags\">\n<div><strong>See Campaign: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dealbreaker.com\/2020\/01\/citadel-sues-gsa\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/dealbreaker.com\/2020\/01\/citadel-sues-gsa<\/a><br \/><b>Contact Information:<\/b><br \/>JON SHAZAR<\/p>\n<p><b>Tags:<\/b><br \/><a href=\"\"><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/news-category\/wire\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Wire<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/global-regions\/united-states\/\" rel=\"category tag\">United States<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/language\/english\/\" rel=\"category tag\">English<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" alt=\"image\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"cwdfimg\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>Contact Information:<\/h3>\n<p>JON SHAZAR<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"233\" height=\"24\" src=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/4221-imgpsh_fullsize_anim.png\" alt=\"\">Ken Griffin is known to be rather&nbsp;particular&nbsp;about the&nbsp;security&nbsp;and&nbsp;use&nbsp;of his&nbsp;trade secrets. And, as it turns out,&nbsp;those of his clients as well. Over a two-year period until September 2014, the market-maker removed hundreds of thousands of large OTC orders from its automated trading processes, according to Finra. That rendered the orders &ldquo;inactive&rdquo; and so they had to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/2020\/07\/23\/was-citadel-securities-not-supposed-to-sit-on-client-orders-to-fill-its-own\/\">Continue reading <span>Was Citadel Securities Not Supposed To Sit On Client Orders To Fill Its Own?<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/07\/23\/was-citadel-securities-not-supposed-to-sit-on-client-orders-to-fill-its-own\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,22,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-united-states","category-wire"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Was Citadel Securities Not Supposed To Sit On Client Orders To Fill Its Own? - Business<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/07\/23\/was-citadel-securities-not-supposed-to-sit-on-client-orders-to-fill-its-own\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Was Citadel Securities Not Supposed To Sit On Client Orders To Fill Its Own? - Business\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ken Griffin is known to be rather&nbsp;particular&nbsp;about the&nbsp;security&nbsp;and&nbsp;use&nbsp;of his&nbsp;trade secrets. 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