Many big transactions are "dark" these days. We have dark pools and dark liquidity, too. Finance morphed into a cload-and-dagger style playground. Market transparency in my ass.
The recovery of financial markets should introduce more transparency. Instead, we have more and more opaque and secretive markets. This is not the way to promote well-functioning free market. This is another way of saying that we are totally cooked and they are hiding many ugly secrets to cover up the true magnitude of crisis and postpone the inevitable fall with tax payers' money or money printing press. No good would be coming out of this.
Let me tell you something strange that I encountered at my bank. When I desposited a check on Monday, they said I would not have access to the money until Thursday, because of the holiday.
I have never been told that it would take so long to "clear" a regular paycheck.
The teller suggested that I take some "cash back" under the circumstances.