The spoofing trial of software developer Jitesh Thakkar — an attempt by federal regulators to crack down on illegal high-frequency computer trading — ended with a hung jury Tuesday in Chicago federal ...

As stock market crashes go, the so-called flash crash in May 2010 holds a notorious place in financial history. Within minutes, billions of dollars in wealth were wiped out when equities markets ...

Last year, during a crackdown on spoofing — a form of high-speed computer trading fraud — federal prosecutors charged a Chicago software developer with creating a program that helped a rogue trader ...

An infamous group of anti-globalization pranksters is aiming to proliferate on-line parodies of powerful corporations and trade organizations, distributing software over the Internet that makes it a ...

LONDON—U.K. trader Navinder Sarao, who faces a U.S. extradition hearing later this month, allegedly worked with a customized version of software known as the “matrix” in a deliberate attempt to “spoof ...