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A key EU lawmaker is set to back calls for a formal ban on brokers selling customers’ share trades to market intermediaries, adding to momentum in favour of clamping down on the practice.
The draft highlights the growing resistance in Europe to payment for order flow even before it has become popular in the region. US brokerages earn billions of dollars a year on the process, collecting a record $3.8bn during last year’s retail trading boom. Payment for order flow is also lucrative for high-speed trading firms that profit on the difference in their own purchase price for a share and the price at which they pass it on to clients.
https://www.ft.com/content/2b4c8493-5264-435d-9fb8-8f1c6141c329?sharetype=blocked
