All Entries in the "FI" Category
Australian Company to Automate Multi-Trillion Dollar Debt Market MMADX
An Australian company, MMADX (Money Market and Debt eXchange Pty Ltd), plans this year to open the first electronic trading system in the Asia Pacific for money market securities and repurchase agreements. While the equities, futures, foreign exchange and bond markets have all embraced the benefits of automation, money market securities and repurchase agreements are [...]
Tradeweb Adds Australian Government Bonds Marketplace
Tradeweb announced the addition of Australian government bonds to its suite of dealer-to-customer government bond marketplaces. The new market provides buy-side investors, such as asset managers and central banks, with the ability to trade a broad range of government securities on a single venue. More than 60 institutions have already executed Australian dollar trades on [...]
Interoperability to Be Seen in China Investor Bond Balances
To enhance bond market liquidity and prevent market risk, the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) will change the separate management over investors’ balances of bonds listed on both the fixed income platform and the auction system (including the block trading system) by the above two systems to the centralized management by the auction system. According to [...]
SGX Offers Trading of Singapore Government Bonds
Singapore government bonds (SGS bonds) can be traded on Singapore Exchange (SGX) from 8 July 2011. This initiative is expected to improve price transparency and liquidity in SGS bonds, and provide investors with a safe investment alternative that can give both capital protection and steady returns. With the new offering by SGX, investors will be [...]
MarketAxess Expands Trading Platform to Asia Pacific Institutional Investors
MarketAxess Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: MKTX), the operator of an electronic trading platform for U.S. and European high-grade corporate bonds, emerging markets bonds, derivatives and other types of fixed-income securities, has announced that it will expand its credit trading platform to include institutional investors based in the Asia Pacific region. “MarketAxess has delivered innovative and customized [...]
TOKYO AIM to Launch TOKYO PRO-BOND Market for Professionals
TOKYO AIM, Inc. (“TOKYO AIM”) today published an outline framework for its new bond market for professional investors, the TOKYO PRO-BOND Market. The TOKYO PRO-BOND Market is designed to be as competitive as the Euromarket and over time become a central bond market for the Asian region. The new market will enable issuers to benefit [...]
China Lets Banks Trade Bonds on Exchanges
Listed banks in China will be allowed to trade bonds on exchanges, the country’s securities regulator said on Wednesday, ending a 13-year ban, Reuters reported. The China Securities Regulatory Commission said on its website that it was an important move to improve efficiency of the country’s bond market and that the resumption of exchange trading [...]
Omgeo Makes Significant Progress in Fixed Income Trade Automation in Japan
Omgeo, the global standard for post-trade efficiency, announced August 9 significant progress in its fixed income automation initiative in Japan. Fixed income allocation processing over Omgeo’s cross-border and non-US domestic services, such as Omgeo CTM, has grown 110% in Japan in one year, when comparing volumes in June 2009 to those in June 2010. Omgeo [...]
Allocation of India Debt Investment Limits to FIIs
Based on the assessment of the allocation and the utilization of the limits to FIIs for investments in Corporate Debt and Government Debt, it has been decided to allocate the unutilized limits in the following manner:- I. Allocation through bidding process: Please refer to SEBI circular IMD/FII&C/37/2009 dated February 06, 2009, providing the modalities for [...]
SGX Launches Bond Market Initiatives
Singapore Exchange (SGX) today launched its first initiatives to enhance the listing, trading and distribution of fixed income products to build a more vibrant bond market in Asia. These initiatives include drawing more Singapore-listed companies and other organisations to issue bonds for listing and trading on SGX. The listing and trading of fixed income securities [...]
