All Entries in the "Instinet" Category
Instinet and JP Morgan Sign Reciprocal Liquidity Agreement in Asia
Instinet Incorporated, a global leader in electronic trading and agency-only brokerage services, today announced a reciprocal liquidity agreement between its Asia-Pacific broker-dealer units and J.P. Morgan, broadening the Asian liquidity access opportunities available to each firms’ institutional clients. Joel Hurewitz, Instinet’s Head of Product Strategy, Asia, said the agreement was the latest step in the [...]
Instinet Extends VWAP Cross to Hong Kong
Instinet Incorporated, a global leader in electronic trading and agency-only brokerage services, announced March 1 the expansion of its VWAP Cross to Europe and Hong Kong. The pre-market cross is already a major source of anonymous, low impact, block liquidity at the industry standard Volume Weighted Average Price in the US, Canada, Japan and Korea. [...]
Instinet Records Significant Asian Liquidity Growth in 2011
Instinet Incorporated, a global leader in electronic trading and agency-only brokerage services, today announced that the alternative liquidity pools operated by its brokerage subsidiaries in the Asia-Pacific region experienced considerable growth in 2011. Instinet’s BLX Hong Kong grew 591%, CBX™ Hong Kong more than 350% and CBX Japan nearly 225% throughout the year(1). “Given the [...]
Instinet Sets Trading Record in Asia
Instinet Incorporated, a global leader in electronic trading and agency only-brokerage services, announced August 19 that its Asia business unit set a firm record, both in value traded and dark liquidity aggregation, for the week of August 8-12, 2011. * $2.7 billion USD traded in the non-Japan Asia region, a new firm record * Over [...]
Instinet Launches Australian Liquidity Pool
Instinet Incorporated, a global leader in electronic trading and agency-only brokerage services, today announced that its Instinet Australia Pty Limited subsidiary has launched Instinet BLX Australia, a new liquidity pool for Australian equities. BLX – which Instinet also operates in the US and Canada – aggregates multiple orders from both buy- and sell-side participants and [...]
Webinar Recording Best Execution, Unbundling and CSAs in Asia
This Webinar – Best Execution, Unbundling and CSAs in Asia was recorded April 1, 2011 at 5pm Hong Kong time in a panel-style format. The webinar examined the current state of unbundling of execution and research in Asia, how commission sharing agreements are being received, some background on the origination of CSA, how important are [...]
Instinet Video Interview With AsiaEtrading.com
Kym Graham, Head of Asian Sales at Instinet spoke with AsiaEtrading about Commission Sharing Agreements (CSA), best execution and unbundling in Asia. He explains why there is a slow uptake of CSAs, how the buy-side panel vote effects where trades are sent and how exchange competition in Asia will effect best execution. Kym Graham talks [...]
Instinet Report On The Market Microstructure Impact Of Extending Trading Hours in Asia
Lunch breaks on several Asia-Pacific exchanges are getting shorter or going away altogether, resulting in a longer overall trading day in Japan, Hong Kong and Singapore. Will this be enough, however, to stimulate the volume growth seen in other parts of the world? For example, in the US, competition between trading venues has ushered in [...]
Instinet Sets Newport 3 Trade Value Record in Asia-Pacific
Instinet Incorporated, a global leader in electronic trading and agency-only brokerage services, announced December 17 that for the week of 6-10 December, its Asia-Pacific clients’ trading value executed through the Newport® 3 EMS (execution management system) reached a firm record. Specifically: • Over $4 billion USD was traded through the platform; • Over $2 billion [...]
Nomura and Instinet Enter Liquidity Agreement for Hong Kong
Nomura, the global investment bank, has announced that it has entered into a liquidity agreement with agency brokerage Instinet and its non-displayed crossing network, NX (NomuraCross) in Hong Kong. Nomura is now receiving orders from Instinet that are being entered directly into NX Hong Kong, providing clients access to more liquidity from each firm’s crossing [...]
