A Boston Globe story today, Shedding Light on ‘Dark Pools’, includes this from the head of equities at Fidelity’s brokerage arm:

“I don’t mind if the best price is on an exchange or in my own dark pool,” [Michael]…

Daniel Roth’s new story is up on Wired. It’s the story of how the data standard the SEC adopted on Dec. 17, 2008, can restore Peggy Noonan’s “magic.” As she wrote, “no amount of pessimism will stop it once it starts.” Mr. Roth’s story,

These eight sentences from Peggy Noonan in her Wall Street Journal column this morning are the best I’ve read in a long time:

Dynamism has been leached from our system for now, but not from the human brain or heart. Just as our political regeneration will happen…

This morning’s Bloomberg report makes it sound like the idea of transparency is gaining salience:

The philosophy behind both the public-private partnerships and the stress tests is that the more…

The previously blogged ideas — broadening the SEC’s XBRL requirement and using an industry standard computer language to create a more efficient 21st century version of the RTC — would require a sponsor to implement. A smart post from Chris…

On Dec. 22, 2004, eight months before I arrived at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the Commission unanimously adopted a rule…

I’ve spent today installing a new comment manager at paulwilkinson.com, and have decided to convert from using categories plus pages to categories. So here’s my old “Ranching” page in the form of a post. Hope you enjoy it. (As you can see, I’ve also updated the site’s “theme.” Please leave a…

Here’s the text of a letter published by the WSJ from me commenting on the excellent column by Gordon Crovitz last week:

Let’s Use Technology to Help Value Toxic Assets