Trading Transparency: At What Speed and Cost?

This paper summarizes the discussions that took place at a recent one-day listening conference on this and related questions hosted by Columbia Business School's Program for Financial Studies and sponsored by a grant from Norges Bank Investment Management under the Norwegian Finance Initiative (NFI). It was held on June 14, 2018 in New York. The conference was structured as a series of panels that were moderated by academics and comprised regulators, researchers and market participants from the buy side and sell side. There were separate panels on the fixed income markets, equity markets, public versus private markets, technology and innovation, clearing and settlement, and regulation, and the discussions took place under Chatham House rules.