The Germany parliament voted to adopt the High Frequency Trading Act towards the end of February 2014. The High Frequency Trading Act requires that a license, issued by the German regulator (BaFin), be held by high frequency traders (HFT), regardless of their physical location, if they trade the German markets.
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German HFT Act: New Regulatory Requirements for Algorithmic and High Frequency Trading
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