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Blog
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China QFII Update
This Article Appeared in Issue 2 of the Asia Etrader Magazine (View) The QFII (Qualified Foreign Institutional Investor) quota received a much needed and long overdue boost on April 3 when the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) announced it was increasing the quota from US30 billion to US80 billion. While the amount is still quite [...]
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Cambodia Launches Stock Exchange
Cambodia Securities Exchange Co., Ltd. (CSX) has the honor and pleasure to inform the public that the Launching Ceremony of the Securities Trading at Cambodia Securities Exchange will take place on April 18, 2012 at Canadia Tower 27th Floor, and will be presided over by Deputy Prime Minister KEAT CHHON, Minister of Economy and Finance [...]
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Infograph: Commission Sharing Agreements in Asia
This Infographic on Commission Sharing Agreements (CSAs) in Asia provides a visual representation of just how far unbudling has come in this part of the world. This infogrpahic and the articel below it appeared in our second issue of the Asia Etrader magazine Please click the image below to see the full size. Sub: The [...]
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Co-lo Shows HFT Appetite for New Venues
Intro: At a webcast held on the 26 March, Asia Etrading discussed the opportunities and costs that face new exchanges and markets launching in Asia. The launch of new trading venues is being welcomed by traders, looking for cheaper execution, however conservative regulators and well-ensconced incumbent exchanges in many Asian markets are proving difficult to [...]
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Vendors
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IRESS Selects Equinix to Support its Global Business Expansion
Equinix, Inc., a provider of global data center services, announced May 15 that IRESS, a leading financial services technology provider headquartered in Australia, has leveraged Platform Equinix™ to extend availability of its market data, access, trading and wealth solutions services throughout and beyond the Asia Pacific region. The deployments in Equinix International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) [...]
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CITIC Securities Selects SunGard’s Asset Arena Investment Accounting Solution
CITIC Securities (CITICS) has chosen SunGard’s Asset Arena Investment Accounting solution as the accounting solution for its asset management business. CITICS, one of the largest securities firms in China, is relying on Asset Arena to help it meet multi-currency, multi-GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles), multi-market and multi-product valuation accounting requirements. SunGard’s Asset Arena will help [...]
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CITIC Securities to Upgrade Institutional Investor Services with Progress Apama Algorithmic Trading Platform
Progress Software Corporation announced May 15 that China’s largest investment bank by market value, CITIC Securities Co., has selected the Progress® Apama® algorithmic trading platform to enable it to offer its institutional investor clients low-latency, algorithmic and high-frequency trading strategies customized to their requirements. CITIC Securities selected the Apama solution in response to the growing [...]
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ULLINK Provides Certified DMA to SBI Japannext
Ullink, a global provider of low latency connectivity and trading software and services has extended its connectivity offering to SBI Japannext to serve investors of the leading Japanese proprietary trading system. SBI Japannext is a fully fledged proprietary trading system that serves as an alternative channel of liquidity by matching orders through stock trading. With [...]
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Buy Side
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Kasikorn Asset Management Implements Charles River Investment Management Solution
Charles River, a front- and middle-office investment management solutions provider, announced May 8 that Kasikorn Asset Management Co,.Ltd (KAsset), with over US$25 billion in assets under management, has implemented the Charles River Investment Management Solution Version 9 (Charles River IMS) for order and execution management (OEMS), portfolio management and compliance. KAsset provides over 600 provident, [...]
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Winners of the 2012 TFF-Bloomberg Best Fund Award in Taipei
Bloomberg LP and the Taipei Foundation of Finance (TFF) announced March 7 the winners of the 2012 TFF-Bloomberg Best Fund Award in Taipei. The award recognizes asset management funds for their track record of success, growth and resilience and for promoting transparency and openness in Asian capital markets. More than 1,150 funds were qualified to [...]
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Sebi May Make MTM in Liquid Funds Compulsory In a Year
Documents released by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) on Thursday February 23 show the mark-to-market (MTM) valuations norms for liquid mutual funds could be extended to all securities within one year. The Mutual Funds Advisory Committee had recommended implementation of MTM valuation norms in three phases, the agenda papers of the board [...]
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ASIC Releases Draft Disclosure Guidance for Hedge Funds
ASIC released February 23 for consultation draft regulatory guidance with new disclosure benchmarks and principles for hedge funds to improve investor awareness of the risks associated with these products. The guidance, contained in Consultation Paper 174 Hedge funds: Improving disclosure — Further consultation (CP 174), sets out the specific features and risks of hedge funds [...]
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Futures
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Bursa Malaysia Derivatives All Time Volume High
Total contracts traded on Bursa Malaysia Derivatives (BMD) reached a historical daily volume high of 77,703 contracts on Wednesday, 16 May 2012, surpassing the previous record of 74,014 contracts on 24 February 2011. In addition, daily volume for crude palm oil futures (FCPO) contracts also charted a historical high of 63,019 contracts on Wednesday, surpassing [...]
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Marex Spectron Appoints Samson Tan as Asia Head of Agricultural Commodities
Marex Spectron announced May 15 the appointment of Samson Tan as Asia Head of Agricultural Commodities. Samson joins Marex Spectron from Sucden Financial, where he established their Hong Kong office. Samson has a very strong background in physical sugar trading and experience in brokering all traded commodities. Samson started his career as a sugar trader [...]
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Thai Futures Exchange to Launch USD Futures on June 5
The Thailand Futures Exchange plc (TFEX), under The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) group, will launch USD futures on June 5, enabling Thai investors and business operators to manage Thai baht through the derivatives market, enhancing long-term benefits for the country and all players concerned. TFEX and 31 member companies got approval last week from [...]
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HKEX Censures Goldman For Breaching Listing Agreement
GS (as Issuer of structured products listed and traded on the Exchange) and The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (as Guarantor) signed the Listing Agreement with the Exchange dated 25 October 2005. The Listing Agreement set out the obligations to which GS was and is subject as an issuer of structured products. Under Paragraph 2(5) of [...]
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Exchanges
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Bursa Malaysia Derivatives All Time Volume High
Total contracts traded on Bursa Malaysia Derivatives (BMD) reached a historical daily volume high of 77,703 contracts on Wednesday, 16 May 2012, surpassing the previous record of 74,014 contracts on 24 February 2011. In addition, daily volume for crude palm oil futures (FCPO) contracts also charted a historical high of 63,019 contracts on Wednesday, surpassing [...]
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NYSE Liffe Announces First Colocation Customer From Asia
NYSE Liffe, the European based derivatives business of NYSE Euronext, is pleased to announce GF Futures (Hong Kong) Co. Ltd (“GF Futures”), a Hong Kong based subsidiary of GF Group, as its first colocation customer from Asia. GF Futures is a leading player in the Asian derivatives market and through its membership of NYSE Liffe, [...]
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NYSE Euronext and China Financial Futures Exchange Sign Memorandum of Understanding
NYSE Euronext (NYX) and the China Financial Futures Exchange (CFFEX) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) May 16 to promote a bilateral partnership to support the development of the exchanges futures and options markets. The agreement was designed to explore opportunities for extending the global reach of both exchanges. The MOU will enable the two [...]
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Thai Futures Exchange to Launch USD Futures on June 5
The Thailand Futures Exchange plc (TFEX), under The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) group, will launch USD futures on June 5, enabling Thai investors and business operators to manage Thai baht through the derivatives market, enhancing long-term benefits for the country and all players concerned. TFEX and 31 member companies got approval last week from [...]
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Technology
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IRESS Selects Equinix to Support its Global Business Expansion
Equinix, Inc., a provider of global data center services, announced May 15 that IRESS, a leading financial services technology provider headquartered in Australia, has leveraged Platform Equinix™ to extend availability of its market data, access, trading and wealth solutions services throughout and beyond the Asia Pacific region. The deployments in Equinix International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) [...]
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Simplex Consulting Releases Sub 2 Micro Ultra Low Latency DMA Solution BLAST FPGA
Simplex Consulting, Inc. headquartered in Tokyo, will release BLAST FPGA the first Ultra low latency solution for Tokyo Stock Exchange equities market system “arrowhead” . This solution will be for both domestic and foreign securities firms and available from August 2012 as stated by the CEO, Hideki Kaneko. Mr. Kaneko added that Simplex will expand [...]
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MarketPrizm announces the Go-Live of their Trading Infrastructure Service in Japan, Australia and Singapore
MarketPrizm, a leading provider of market data and trading infrastructure services, announced May 10 the first Asian segments of its global ultra low latency data distribution infrastructure are now live. Customers can use MarketPrizm’s ultra low latency network, PrizmNet Asia, to connect to markets in Tokyo (TSE and Chi-X Japan), Australia (ASX and Chi-X Australia) [...]
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KVH to Appoint Edward Higase as President, Chief Executive Officer and Representative Director
KVH Co., Ltd., Asia’s leading information delivery platform, today announced that Mr. Edward Higase will be appointed as President, Chief Executive Officer and Representative Director of KVH. Mr. Higase will succeed Mr. Richard Warley, who will become a member of the Board of Directors of KVH. These changes will take effect from May 16, 2012. [...]
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Sell Side
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NYSE Liffe Announces First Colocation Customer From Asia
NYSE Liffe, the European based derivatives business of NYSE Euronext, is pleased to announce GF Futures (Hong Kong) Co. Ltd (“GF Futures”), a Hong Kong based subsidiary of GF Group, as its first colocation customer from Asia. GF Futures is a leading player in the Asian derivatives market and through its membership of NYSE Liffe, [...]
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Marex Spectron Appoints Samson Tan as Asia Head of Agricultural Commodities
Marex Spectron announced May 15 the appointment of Samson Tan as Asia Head of Agricultural Commodities. Samson joins Marex Spectron from Sucden Financial, where he established their Hong Kong office. Samson has a very strong background in physical sugar trading and experience in brokering all traded commodities. Samson started his career as a sugar trader [...]
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CITIC Securities Selects SunGard’s Asset Arena Investment Accounting Solution
CITIC Securities (CITICS) has chosen SunGard’s Asset Arena Investment Accounting solution as the accounting solution for its asset management business. CITICS, one of the largest securities firms in China, is relying on Asset Arena to help it meet multi-currency, multi-GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles), multi-market and multi-product valuation accounting requirements. SunGard’s Asset Arena will help [...]
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CITIC Securities to Upgrade Institutional Investor Services with Progress Apama Algorithmic Trading Platform
Progress Software Corporation announced May 15 that China’s largest investment bank by market value, CITIC Securities Co., has selected the Progress® Apama® algorithmic trading platform to enable it to offer its institutional investor clients low-latency, algorithmic and high-frequency trading strategies customized to their requirements. CITIC Securities selected the Apama solution in response to the growing [...]
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Regulatory
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ASIC Update on Crossing Reporting
Market participants operating crossing systems are reminded of their obligations, under Part 4.3 of the ASIC Market Integrity Rules (Competition in Exchange Markets) 2011 (‘Competition MIRs’). ASIC has issued guidance on the obligations arising from operating such systems. These can be found in Section E of Regulatory Guide 223, Guidance on ASIC market integrity rules [...]
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Upgrade For ASIC’s Market Surveillance System
The Federal Government has announced a budget commitment for ASIC to invest in a market surveillance system allowing it to plan for a future that includes greatly increased message traffic, new technologies and trading techniques, increased competition between trading venues and the increasing globalisation of capital markets. The market surveillance system will improve on technology [...]
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HK SFC Gazettes Amendment Notice to Expand Lists of Specified Futures and Stock Exchanges
The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has gazetted today the Securities and Futures Ordinance (Amendment of Schedule 1) Notice 2012 (Amendment Notice) to amend the lists of local and overseas futures and stock exchanges in Parts 2 and 3 of Schedule 1 to the Securities and Futures Ordinance (Cap. 571) (SFO) by adding nine new [...]
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SEBI Issues Broad Guidelines on Algorithmic Trading
Broad Guidelines on Algorithmic Trading 1. It has been observed that adoption of technology for the purpose of trading in financial instruments has been on a rise over the past few years. Stock brokers as well as their clients are now making increased usage of trading algorithm (hereinafter referred to as “algo”). 2. Based on [...]
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