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The Securities and Futures Commission, Hong Kong’s financial regulator, has highlighted significant progress in efforts to offer institutional investors direct access to Chinese markets.

As rival pan-European clearing house EuroCCP claims it is soaking up market share for trades executed on BATS Chi-X Europe, EMCF has struck back with a new pricing scheme that it says is the cheapest in the world.

Cash equities have remained flat while derivatives and options trading has experienced strong growth at the Hong Kong Exchange.

Members of UK telecoms provider BT’s Radianz Cloud connectivity network now have expanded access to Russia following a deal with banking group ING.

While former MF Global clients anticipate the return of missing funds, few realise the impact of a case pending in Britain’s Supreme Court on whether and how quickly these funds will be returned.

Institutional investors can achieve more effective access to liquidity on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange thanks to a partnership unveiled earlier this month between trading systems vendor Portware and Cuttone & Co, an agency brokerage steeped in floor broking tradition.

NYSE Euronext has told market participants it will either bust trades or adjust prices for executions involved in an erroneous trading incident on its Amex options platform on 24 February.

The Securities and Exchange Commission is encouraging firms to review controls designed to prevent and detect unauthorised trading in brokerage and advisory accounts.

US-based market operator BATS Global Markets has revealed plans to enter at least two new markets by 2014 and is considering broadening the asset classes it offers.

Bloomberg has unveiled the latest version of its market data terminal, which it says has been reengineered to offer simplified and more uniform access to market information.