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Asian trading venue the Singapore Exchange is enhancing its securities borrowing and lending service, increasing the number of stocks available for lending from 150 to more than 600.

Buy-side crossing network Liquidnet is now accessible through agency brokerage Instinet's execution management system.

Online trade venue and inter-dealer broker Tradeweb has launched an institutional marketplace for equity derivatives.

BM&F Bovespa, the domestic Brazilian equities and derivatives exchange, has launched Brazilian depository receipts, giving local investors the chance to trade US companies.

Canadian trading platform provider TMX Group is to introduce new on-book non-displayed order types on the Toronto Stock Exchange and public venture capital marketplace TSX Venture Exchange.

After a slow start, Japanese proprietary trading systems are seeing an uptick in turnover despite the overall decline in market volumes, says Takayuki Saito, the new head of electronic trading, Japan at Morgan Stanley MUFG Securities.

Liquidity returned to Asian markets in August, marking a departure from what had looked like a traditionally quiet summer period when agency broker ITG's monthly Asia Pacific Liquidity Barometer dropped by around 15% in June.

Buy-side crossing network and agency brokerage Liquidnet has appointed AEGON Asset Management's Adrian Fitzpatrick as the first non-executive director on the board of Liquidnet Europe.

NYSE Euronext subsidiary and global derivatives business NYSE Liffe is to extend the availability of its FTSE 100 Index Futures contract into Asian trading hours.

Polish trading venue the Warsaw Stock Exchange (WSE) has introduced its first exchange-traded fund (ETF).