With over $4.5 trillion in assets under its control, BlackRock's Aladdin® system is responsible for more capital than the Obama administration has ever dared to request from Congress—in any annual Federal budget proposal—by hundreds of billions of dollars. Actually, it's even bigger than that.

Serious Offenders, Grievous Harm: Pun Headlines About "Dark Pools" | Pars Herald "Barclays in Hot Water over Dark Pools" | The Guardian "Barclays allegations and inside the murky world of dark pools" | Information Week "Throwing Sharks out of the Dark Pool Tank" | And the Attorney General, Himself

Fitted to excite pity and sympathy, state and federal agencies have begun filing lawsuits against financial services juggernaut and arguable maîtres du monde Barclays PLC over allegations of fraud at Liquidity Cross: the British firm's "dark pool" trading venue. Yes. Fraud. In a dark pool.