Research by TABB Group, a consultancy, suggests they will ultimately shrink to just three or four per asset class.
Dark pools are expected to grow from 9% of the market now to 15% by 2010, according to Tabb Group.
Paul Rowady, another Tabb analyst, offers a word of advice Singapore.
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The Tabb Group, a leading capital markets research and analytics firm, recently surveyed financial institutions on their use of spreadsheets, said Tabb.
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Larry Tabb, founder of the financial technology research firm, TABB Group, has in the past made two key points related to high-frequency trading.
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He found traders and analysts who worried that a tax on high frequency trading could damage the industry, including Larry Tabb of the Tabb Group.
And this little chart from the Tabb Group shows something interesting.
More than two-thirds of those surveyed said employees of publicly traded companies should be banned from earning money by serving as expert consultants, TABB Group said.
The comments, and because access is controlled the Tabb Forum commenters tend to be well-informed professionals, take both sides on the debate and are provocative reading.
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Larry Tabb, founder of the research firm Tabb Group, called Mr. Palmisano's appointment "a good start, " but he cautioned the move wouldn't immediately resolve the scrutiny of Bloomberg.
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The Hammers conjured a chance when Cole headed wide from a Matthew Etherington corner before Tabb showed him how to do it, nodding in Osbourne's delightful forward ball on 68 minutes.
The insider-trading probe is having "an overwhelmingly negative impact" on investors' confidence in stock markets, according to results of a survey published in January by investment- and markets-research firm TABB Group.
One forecaster, the Boston consulting firm Tabb Group, predicts that the NYSE will see its share of the trading volume in NYSE-listed stocks fall from 40% this year to 32% by 2010.
Traders are also doing 7% of their volume in "dark pools, " the electronic equivalent of a back alley where buyers and sellers transact anonymously, according to Tabb Group, a Westborough, Mass. market researcher.
Aimed at the Wall Street crowd, the Cap Markets Guide features a similar mix of analyses from industry experts (Tabb Group, Accenture, Columbia University, Algorithmica Research, Aite Group and more), financial services vendors (Revolution Analytics, BT Global Services, Numerix, Deloitte, Panopticon Software AB, Algo Technologies and more) and Sybase executives.
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