Alex Frino

BCom MCom (Hons) W'gong MPhil Camb. PhD, CPA
Professor

Room 406
H69 - The Economics and Business Building
The University of Sydney
NSW 2006 Australia

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+61 2 9351 6451

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+61 2 9351 6461

Email

alex.frino@sydney.edu.au

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Dr Alex Frino is Professor of Finance and Chief Executive Officer of the Capital Markets Cooperative Research Centre Ltd.

Professor Frino holds a Masters Degree in Finance from the University of Cambridge, England and a PhD in Finance from the University of Sydney. His research specialisation is security market microstructure and he has published almost one hundred articles in scholarly journals including the Journal of Finance, Journal of Banking & Finance, Journal of Portfolio Management and Journal of Futures Markets. He has attracted over $5 million in Australian Research Council funding and leads a successful Cooperative Research Centre funding bid valued at over $100 million. In 2005, Professor Frino received the 2005 Fulbright Senior Scholar Award in recognition of his research achievements.

Professor Frino first joined the University of Sydney in 1991. He specialises in teaching corporate finance and derivatives, and is the lead author of a widely used finance textbook entitled An Introduction to Corporate Finance which is currently in its fourth edition. In recognition of his commitment to postgraduate teaching, he received the Vice-Chancellors Award for Excellence in Postgraduate Supervision in 2008.

Professor Frino has held visiting positions with Credit Suisse First Boston, Sydney Futures Exchange, Australian Securities Exchange and Commodity Futures Trading Commission in the USA. He has also held visiting professorial and research positions at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, Cambridge University, England, Universita' Federico II, Italy and Georgetown University, USA. Professor Frino currently serves on the editorial boards of the Pacific Basin Finance Journal and Review of Futures Markets. He is on the Board of Directors of the Financial Management Association of Australia Limited (FMAA), Asian Finance Association and Wollongong Anglican Residential College Limited. He also serves on the Disciplinary Tribunal of the Australian Securities Exchange.

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Crackdown on banks' dark pools 20 Nov 2012

Australian Financial Review

The Australian Financial Review has interviewed Professor Alex Frino, Discipline of Finance at the University of Sydney Business School, regarding Australia's major investment banks potentially being forced to hold stock exchange licenses under a tough new regime proposed by the government to crack down on secretive trading venues known as dark pools.
HFT: the good, the bad and truly bad 16 Oct 2012

The Australian Financial Review

The Australian Financial Review has interviewed Professor Alex Frino, Business School, who has warned that trying to distinguish between good and bad types of high frequency trading is impossible, and any attempts to regulate such trading would bring unintended consequences.
High Speed Trading Moratorium 20 Sep 2012

ABC News 24

Professor Alex Frino has been interviewed by ABC News 24 about calls for a moratorium on high speed trading.
Fast, Furious, Possibly Dangerous 15 Aug 2012

The Australian Financial Review

Professor Alex Frino discusses the possible unintended consequences of possible regulatory changes to high frequency trading computers in Australia.
ASIC trading circuit breaker scheme criticised 08 Aug 2012

The Australian Financial Review

A proposal by the market regulator to automatically stop disorderly trades from causing chaos in the Australian sharemarket has been labelled problematic by Professor Alex Frino of the University of Sydney Business School