China Clamps Down on High-Speed Traders, Removing Servers

China Cracks Down on High-Frequency Trading with Server Removals

China’s Latency Leveling: Dismantling the Speed Edge in High-Frequency Trading In a bold regulatory maneuver that has sent ripples through global financial markets, Chinese authorities have initiated a sweeping crackdown on high-frequency trading practices by ordering the removal of specialized servers from exchange data centers. This development, reported extensively in recent days, targets the core advantage of ultra-fast trading firms: proxim…

China Clamps Down on High-Speed Traders, Removing Servers

An anonymous reader shares a report: China is pulling the plug on a key advantage held by high-frequency traders, removing servers dedicated to those firms out of local exchanges' data centers, according to people familiar with the matter. Commodities futures exchanges in Shanghai and Guangzhou are among those that have ordered local brokers to shift servers for their clients out of data centers run by the bourses, according to the people, who …

China to Squeeze HFTs out of Exchange Data Centers in Attack on Speed Advantage

Chinese regulators are forcing high-frequency trading (HFT) firms to remove servers co-located inside exchange data centers, a move that directly targets the ultra-low-latency model used by global firms such as Citadel Securities, Jane Street, and Jump Trading. According to sources familiar with the matter cited by Bloomberg, commodity futures exchanges in Shanghai and Guangzhou have instructed local brokers to relocate their HFT clients’ server…