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The second day of TradeTech China held last week began with a panel of representatives from the Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SZSE), Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE), the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TWSE) and the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE). The discussion in both Mandarin and English centered around how these exchanges are improving their technology and increasing connectivity [...]
The second annual TradeTech China conference held in Shanghai January 28 to 29 featured some interesting discussions, roundtables and speeches of the machinations of China’s electronic trading industry. The opening keynote panel featured 4 prominent buyside speakers who spoke of the challenges of China’s fund industry including regualtory constraints, execution limitations and unsatisfactory trading tools. [...]
Hong Kong and Melbourne, Australia: FMO, the online Portfolio Management System for global hedge funds with industry leading reporting and attribution analysis, announced the opening of their Hong Kong office February 5.
“We already have a number of key clients in Hong Kong who have successfully been using FMO”, said Paul Lemphers, Director-FMO Asia. “FMO originates [...]
CQG, Inc. now provides low-latency trade execution for derivatives traded on the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE). CQG, the industry-leading order execution, charting, and analytics provider for global electronically-traded futures markets, has been providing market data from TSE for more than a decade. Now, CQG’s hosted trading gateway for TSE provides traders with fast Direct Market [...]
Hong Kong-based Income Partners Asset Management, an independent fund management company specializing in Asian investments, has implemented SunGard’s APT multi-asset risk modeling solution to help analyze and manage risk on the firm’s new equity fund, the IP Asian Equity Long-Short Fund. Income Partners uses APT’s Asia Pacific ex-Japan equity model to help gain an understanding [...]
The latest Fund Management Activities Survey (FMAS) covering 2008 released July 28, 2009 by the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) shows that despite a 39.3% year-on-year decline, the combined fund management business remained in an uptrend on a trailing three-year-average basis.
Due to the poor performance of financial markets around the world and net [...]
Tokyo Commodity Exchange, Inc. (“TOCOM” ) announced January 25th that two Exchange Traded Funds (ETF), which invest directly in its gold futures contract and its platinum futures contract respectively, have been approved for listing on the Osaka Securities Exchange on February 15, 2010. These are the first Japanese ETFs which invest directly in the Japanese [...]
The much anticipated and long awaited China Securities Index 300 (CSI300) future contract looks to be in its final stages of approval to commence trading on the China Financial Futures Exchange (CFFEX) sometime this spring. The State Council gave an “in principle” endorsement earlier this month to the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) to allow [...]
The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) has released the findings of its review of algorithmic trading and market access.
The review commenced in July 2009 and sought to examine the impact and likely growth of algorithmic trading
activities in Australia, and identify ways to meet demand for alternative access arrangements to ASX’s markets without creating new risks to [...]
The Unaudited Financial Results of the Bombay Stock Exchange Ltd. (BSE) for the quarter ended 31st December, 2009 reported a top line growth of 17% (Q-o-Q) and was Rs 119.21 crores for the quarter ended 31st December, 2009.
Average Daily Turnover (ADT) during the quarter for the Cash Segment was Rs. 5,201 crores, registering a [...]
NYSE Technologies and four leading ASEAN equities exchanges-Bursa Malaysia (BM), the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE), Singapore Exchange (SGX) and the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET)- during the 10th ASEAN Exchanges CEO’s Meeting in Manila signed a Letter of Intent February 8 that designates NYSE Technologies as the solutions provider for the ASEAN Trading Link. The [...]
Co-location or proximity hosting as its also known is nothing new in the west. But like most every electronic trading innovation spawned in the west the east eventually comes around.
For the uninitiated proximity hosting is where a room full of stacks with routers and servers is as close as possible to the exchange even [...]
Penson Worldwide, Inc. (NASDAQ: PNSN) announced today that its Australian subsidiary, Penson Financial Services Australia Pty, Ltd (PFSA), has signed a 5-year exclusive agreement to provide clearing services for equities and exchange traded options for D2MX, a fast-growing provider of wholesale and intermediary Direct Market Access (DMA) broking services in Australia.
“After months of reviewing possible [...]
Company Also Enters Into White Label Partnership with Polaris Securities (HK) Limited, A Subsidiary of One of Taiwan’s Largest Securities Firms
GAIN Capital Holdings Inc., a global provider of online trading services, announced February 2 the opening of its newest office in Hong Kong, further extending its presence in the Asia-Pacific region alongside offices in Tokyo [...]
1.The following regulatory measures on short selling are currently in place, with regard to all listed stocks in Japan:
1) An “uptick rule requirement” which prohibits, in principle, short selling at prices no higher than the latest market price;
2) Requirements for traders to verify and flag whether or not the transactions in question are short selling; [...]
China’s securities regulator may introduce futures contracts on the country’s stock indexes as early as March, an official with knowledge of the matter said.
The State Council, China’s cabinet, has given the China Securities Regulatory Commission approval “in principle” to introduce index futures, said the person, who declined to be identified before an announcement. The first [...]
Honourable Union Minister of State for Corporate Affairs & Minority Affairs Shri Salman Khurshid inaugurated February 5 a state-of-the-art Exchange Datacentre at the Exchange Square of MCX Stock Exchange to support its high density computing environment.
The Exchange Datacenter is powered by ultra high-end infrastructure located in a green, environment-friendly building and designed to aid MCX-SX’s [...]
Tokyo Commodity Exchange, Inc. (“TOCOM” or the “Exchange”) announced today that the Exchange introduced Block Trading after having received approval from the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry. TOCOM is the first Japanese commodity futures exchange to introduce Block Trading, which allows for transactions to be concluded apart from the market.
The advantage of Block Trading [...]
Bursa Malaysia Berhad (Bursa Malaysia) reported February 4 a healthy net profit of RM177.6 million for the financial year ended 31 December 2009, an increase of 70% compared to the net profit of RM104.4 million in 2008. This was mainly due to the RM76 million gain on the disposal of 25% equity interest in Bursa [...]