Direct market access Archive

BM&F Bovespa, the multi-asset-class Brazilian exchange, has selected technology firm SunGard as its fourth provider of direct market access (DMA). read more>

Pan-European multilateral trading facility Nasdaq OMX Europe (NEURO) has announced that investment bank Barclays Capital has been approved as a sponsoring participant on its platform. read more>

Global financial information and market data provider Thomson Reuters plans to boost its direct market access (DMA) capabilities following the acquisition of the assets and business of Aegisoft, a US-based electronic trading technology firm. read more>

Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BoAML) has introduced a new low-latency direct market access (DMA) service that allows buy-side firms to choose between brokers to achieve cost-efficient connectivity across Japan’s exchanges. read more>

Investment bank Credit Suisse has launched co-location services for Japanese equities, taking advantage of the new Arrowhead trading platform installed by the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) at the start of the year. read more>

Regulation that defines minimum risk requirements and standardises sponsored access arrangements is likely to hit US and European equity market participants in 2010, according to Aite Group. read more>

Chilean investment bank LarrainVial is to offer direct market access connectivity to the Santiago Stock Exchange using an electronic trading platform built by NYSE Technologies, the commercial technology arm of exchange group NYSE Euronext. read more>

Bursa Malaysia has launched direct market access (DMA) capabilities for equities, which will allow investors to trade equities directly on the exchange through member brokers’ systems. read more>

Pan-European multilateral trading facility (MTF) Chi-X Europe has launched Chi-Velocity, a solution that aims to combine the speed of sponsored access with the additional functionality and risk control of direct market access (DMA). read more>

Europe’s sponsored access market has no shortage of suppliers, but demand for the service is being hampered by a lack of consistency on how it differs from standard direct market access and where responsibility lies for risk controls. read more>