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Senior trader warns ECNs over access fees

Alternative communications networks could become uncompetitive

Instinet and other electronic communications networks (ECNs) have been warned that their access fee charges could hurt them when SuperMontage, Nasdaq's new trading platform and quote display system, launches.

Mary McDermott Holland, senior vice-president at Franklin Portfolio, has used ECNs since the 1980s but says that their insistence on charging fees to access quotes could be their undoing and persuade her to look to other market makers.

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