The Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEx) has laid out a strategic plan for 2010-2012 that will help it adjust the developing competitive landscape and enable it capture more business in mainland China. read more »
Exchanges
Frankfurt modernises floor trading to boost liquidity
The exchange council of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, the main regulated market of German exchange group Deutsche Börse, has resolved to abolish ‘lead-broker’-based trading in equities and fixed income securities from 28 March 2012. read more »
NYSE rolls out TCA platform to floor traders
Exchange group NYSE Euronext has teamed up with trading analytics provider William Ryan Group to provide New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) floor brokers with a new transaction cost analysis technology platform. read more »
Euroclear reduces netting fees following LSE pressure
Euroclear UK & Ireland, the UK’s central securities depository, has said it will reduce its trade-netting tariff from the start of next month, thereby reducing the cost of trading on the London Stock Exchange (LSE). read more »
NYSE solution to boost institutional trading on ASEAN bourses
The new infrastructure that will be supplied to six ASEAN exchanges by NYSE Technologies, the commercial technology unit of exchange group NYSE Euronext, is expected to lure more overseas institutional liquidity into the region. read more »
Oslo Børs plans more fee changes to ward off rivals
Oslo Børs, Norway’s national exchange, plans to alter its trading fees for a third time in six months as it continues its battle against fragmentation of Norwegian equities trading. read more »
ASX to implement sub-millisecond trading platform in 2011
Global exchange group Nasdaq OMX is to supply Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) with a new trading system – ASX Trade – scheduled for launch in Q2 2011. read more »
Nasdaq to boost fees for some order types in March
The Nasdaq Stock Market, exchange group Nasdaq OMX’s main US equities bourse, plans to introduce a fee for removing liquidity using its Mid Point Peg order type from 1 March and hike the routing fee for certain order types. read more »
BATS sets pricing for new options exchange
US equities bourse BATS Exchange has unveiled the price schedule for its new options platform, BATS Options, scheduled for launch on 26 February. read more »
SHUAA to trade equity derivatives on Nasdaq Dubai
Nasdaq Dubai, a stock exchange operating in the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), has admitted brokerage SHUAA Securities to trade on its equity derivatives market. read more »
