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Citi appoints Amol Gupte Head of Transaction Services for Asia
Citi has appointed Amol Gupte as Citi Transaction Services (CTS) head for the Asia Pacific region, effective May 1. Amol will be based in Hong Kong and will report to Rodrigo Zorrilla, Citi Chief Operating Officer Asia Pacific and Francesco Vanni d’Archirafi, CEO CTS. In this new role, Amol will become a member of the [...]
SGX and CIMB Securities to Grow Trading Representatives Profession
Singapore Exchange (SGX) and CIMB Securities today announced an initiative to grow the number of Trading Representatives (TRs) in Singapore and enhance their skills in providing value added services for investors. Together with the Financial Training Institute at Singapore Management University (FTI@SMU), SGX and CIMB Securities will offer new TRs a training programme that equip [...]
Korean Investment & Securities Selects Orc For Korea Markets
Orc, a leading provider of technology and services for the global financial industry, announced April 10 that Korean Investment & Securities Co. Ltd. (KIS) has selected Orc to meet growing market demand for low-latency connectivity to the Korea Exchange (KRX). As a result of the deal, customers of both Orc and KIS will be able [...]
Mitsubishi UFJ Securities International Appoints David King Interim CEO
Mitsubishi UFJ Securities Holdings Co., Ltd (MUSHD) announced in Tokyo that David King, currently Chief Financial Officer of Mitsubishi UFJ Securities International (MUSI), will become interim CEO of MUSI pending a permanent appointment. This appointment follows the announcement that Cliff De Souza, outgoing CEO of MUSI, has become Principal Executive Officer of MUSHD, a new [...]
China Merchants Securities Implements NASDAQ OMX’s SMARTS Broker
China Merchants Securities (HK) Co, Ltd. (“CMS”), a wholly owned subsidiary of China Merchants Securities Co., Ltd (“China Merchants Securities”), has implemented NASDAQ OMX’s SMARTS Broker solution for surveillance and compliance monitoring of its equities trading activity. CMS’ compliance team will use the SMARTS Broker solution to enhance surveillance capabilities in monitoring both client and [...]
Daiwa Enters Year Two Running smartTrade For DRECT
smartTrade Technologies, announced April 6 that Daiwa Capital Markets’ Daiwa Routing & Execution Crossing Technology (DRECT) trading system has been in production with smartTrade’s smart order routing and dark pool technology for more than a year. Launched in Feb 2011, Daiwa developed a dark pool, DRECT, to consolidate liquidity from its institutional and retail clients. [...]
Dot Commodity Launches Nikkei 225 Futures And Options Brokerage Services
Dot Commodity, Inc. (Dot), Japan’s largest online commodity futures broker, is pleased to announce the launch of “Nikkei 225 Futures & Options” brokerage services on April 9th. Financial futures and options products will now be offered along with Dot’s robust globally diversified commodity futures products through its “Formula” online trading system. Dot will act as [...]
SGX Welcomes KGI Futures as New Member
Singapore Exchange (SGX) announced April 5 that Taiwan-based KGI Futures Co., Ltd has joined its derivatives market as a new Trading Member. “We are pleased to welcome KGI Futures as a new Trading Member. In recent months, a number of brokers from North Asia have taken trading memberships in our derivatives market, forming more than [...]
ABN AMRO Clearing Selected as Founding Member of HKEx
ABN AMRO Clearing in Hong Kong announced April 3 it is selected for the founding member program of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx). As part of HKEx’s Hosting Services Founding Members Program, ABN AMRO Clearing (AAC) will participate in the early set-up of the hosting ecosystem at HKEx’s Next Generation Data Center (NGDC), [...]
Phatra Securities Chooses FlexTrade
FlexTrade Systems, a global leader in broker-neutral, multi-asset algorithmic trading systems, today announced that Phatra Securities, a leading securities firm in Thailand, has deployed FlexTRADER, the award-winning EMS world renowned for its combined high performance and multi-asset trading capabilities, and Mottai, FlexTrade’s advanced, web-based broker trading solution specifically enhanced for the ASEAN region. “We were [...]
