Regions Archive

Tora, an Asia-focused technology and trading service provider, has extended the reach of its liquidity aggregation service to Hong Kong, Singapore and Australia. read more>

UK-based investment bank Execution Noble has recruited two senior equity sales specialists to its Paris office as part of plans to expand its French operations and service clients across continental Europe. read more>

Singapore Exchange will start trading its new SGX Nikkei Dividend Point Index futures contract in June, making it the first Asian derivatives exchange to trade a dividend futures contract. read more>

A record month of trading by SmartPool saw the NYSE-owned dark trading venue leapfrog BATS Europe and Liquidnet to become Europe’s third-largest non-displayed multilateral trading facility (MTF) in May. read more>

International investors will be able to buy and sell Brazilian equities using streaming quotes in their own base currency, following an agreement between exchange technology provider and trading venue operator Chi-X Global and BM&F Bovespa, the Brazilian exchange group. read more>

Trading in dark pools has continued to grow in the US according to the latest report from boutique brokerage Rosenblatt Securities, despite imminent intervention from regulators. read more>

The Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR) has left the door open for late responses to its MiFID consultation papers, but still expects to send advice to the European Commission within two months. read more>

BATS Europe, the pan-European multilateral trading facility operated by BATS Global Markets, has released a new onward routing strategy that will initially target liquidity on the London Stock Exchange. read more>

The ‘flash crash’ that temporarily floored US share prices on 6 May has dented investor confidence in market structure, but market participants broadly support the regulatory response, responses to a survey from consultancy TABB Group suggest. read more>

Electronic trading solutions and platform provider Goldman Sachs Electronic Trading can now route equity orders electronically to Brazil’s BM&F Bovespa stock exchange via its local subsidiary, Goldman Sachs do Brasil CTVM. read more>