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Poor capital market infrastructure and limited liquidity in African companies are larger concerns for institutional investors already investing in the continent than fears about bribery and corruption, a survey by Middle Eastern investment asset manager Invest AD along with the Economist Intelligence Unit has found. read more>
The Saudi Stock Exchange – known as the Tadawul – is expected to open up to direct foreign investment later this year, as part of a reform agenda aimed at modernising the country’s securities markets. read more>
The Johannesburg Stock Exchange has established a point-of-presence (PoP) at a UK data centre with low-latency service provider Fixnetix, facilitating access to its bourse for non-domestic market participants. read more>
Qatar's inability to improve foreign ownership limitations and continuing fears over how the UAE deals with failed trades have stopped index provider MSCI from upgrading the two countries to emerging markets status. read more>
The Bahrain Financial Exchange, the first multi-asset exchange in the Middle East and North Africa region, has commenced trading on its conventional market segment. read more>
UK telecoms provider BT has added market data from the Qatar Exchange to its Radianz Cloud community as it continues to build up its exchange connectivity network. read more>
Deutsche Bank is now providing direct access to the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, allowing institutional clients to access the bourse through the German bank’s Autobahn Equity business. read more>
Global agency broker Bloomberg Tradebook has launched a DMA trading platform that will connect local and international institutional investors to two United Arab Emirates stock exchanges. read more>
Auerbach Grayson, a New York-based broker specialising in global trade execution and research services, has announced a partnership with IS Investment, the investment banking arm of Turkey-based Isbank. read more>
Index provider MSCI has said that it will extend the review period for the potential upgrading of the MSCI Qatar and UAE indexes from frontier to emerging market status. read more>