A Welcome Message from Kirsten Wegner, Chief Executive Officer
Welcome to the Modern Markets Initiative (MMI). We are a non-profit education and advocacy group comprised of financial technology professionals who make today’s financial markets more efficient, transparent and cost-effective for retail and institutional investors. Today’s financial markets, powered by automated trading, are democratizing investing by reducing the cost of trading to help to open the door to a new generation of investors to participate in the markets.
The MMI website is a comprehensive knowledge center for resources on automated trading, market liquidity and innovation in our financial markets – as well as updates on relevant news topics of note. We hope that you find your experience on our site to be both educational and thought-provoking.
core principles
Markets should be designed to maximize efficiency for all investors.
Market Efficiency
Fair and Equal Access
Transparency
Competition
Market Stability
Simplicity
Sound Regulation
Reports and Studies
A Report on Market Automation and Dependable Liquidity in Times of Uncertainty: Investor Savings from Narrowed Bid Ask Spreads, Markets Functioning as Intended
MMI provides facts and data regarding the evolution of the electronic markets over the past decades and benefits of market automation in saving investors’…
The Truth About the Democrats’ Financial Transaction Tax
Recent efforts by congressional Democrats to reintroduce the Financial Transaction Tax (FTT) threaten the very constituents our elected leaders are supposed to…
A Report on Market Automation and Democratizing Markets: Lowered Bid-Ask Spreads and Investor Savings
MMI provides facts and data regarding the evolution of the electronic markets over the past decades and benefit of market automation, including high frequency…