Brokerage

ConvergEx, an agency broker and trading technology provider, has integrated access to the latest options execution and routing technologies from its LiquidPoint derivatives broking subsidiary into its Eze OMS order management system. read more »

Drew Miyawaki has been appointed head of Liquidnet’s European trading desk, as part of an expansion of the firm’s services to institutional investors. read more »

ConvergEx Group, a trading technology and execution service provider, has launched a new automated trade messenger system to help advertise its internal liquidity to clients. read more »

ConvergEx Group, a trading technology and execution services provider, has made its commission management technologies and soft dollar services available to clients of its NorthPoint prime brokerage business. read more »

US-based agency broker Knight Capital Group has made a raft of new hires to strengthen its institutional options sales and trading teams. read more »

Tora, a trading technology and financial services company focused on equities execution in Asia, plans to expand geographically following investment from Goldman Sachs. read more »

The Indian subsidiary of global investment bank Citi has made a slew of new hires to its equities sales and execution business. read more »

CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets, a pan-Asian agency brokerage, is aiming to launch broking and research services in domestic Chinese shares in the second quarter of 2010 though its Chinese joint venture company, Fortune CLSA. read more »

Agency broker Instinet has appointed four executives, including three sales traders, to its new office in Sydney, Australia, to support its aim of becoming a top 10 institutional brokerage in the country by the end of this year. read more »

BTIG, an institutional broker-dealer, has expanded its London sales trading team with five new hires, four of which are from rival brokerage Pali International. read more »