Bats Chi-X Europe fee changes favour HFTs

Chief executive of Bats Chi-X Europe says new tiered pricing scheme is 'aimed at higher-volume users'

Bats Chi-X Europe, the region's largest stock exchange, is to change a tiered pricing model it introduced in April in a move likely to further reward its most active traders, such as investment banks and high-frequency trading firms.

The London-based platform will apply a new tiered pricing scheme from January 1, 2015 for all stocks on the CXE order book, the former Chi-X Europe market that was acquired by Bats Global Markets in late 2011, according to a trading notice on Monday morning. Previously the exchange operated different tariffs for different country groupings on CXE.

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