News

The Stock Exchange of Thailand has reported a 31.5% decrease in securities trading volume in the year to January 2012.

New connectivity is helping Middle Eastern buy-siders expand their exposure across the region and letting local brokers attract global investors.

Newly-established Polish clearing house and central counterparty, KDPW_CCP, has adopted a new OTC derivatives clearing solution to meet global standards.

Block trading venue operator Liquidnet has announced that Patrick Young has joined its European business as a non-executive director.

Regulation and discretion can often seem like two opposing forces. Europe's tick sizes have a polarising effect on market participants, with major differences of opinion emerging over who should decide the increments in which stocks are available to trade. So what is the best solution - regulation, discretion, or neither?

Marcus Hooper has stepped down from his position as executive director and head of Europe at block trading facility Aritas, as the firm seeks to reposition its offering in the region.

Hong Kong’s Securities Futures Commission has set out new rules on short position reporting, following a consultation that ended in November.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), the US derivatives regulator, has formed a new subcommittee of the Technology Advisory Committee (TAC) to focus on automated and high frequency trading (HFT) and provide a workable definition of the practice.

US market operator BATS Global Markets will waive listing fees for companies whose stock or exchange-traded product trades over an average of two million shares per day.

LCH.Clearnet, the Anglo-French multi-asset clearing house, expects to make announcement on its ongoing merger negotiations with the London Stock Exchange “shortly”, but CEO Ian Axe declined to give a date in conference call following the release of the member-owned clearer’s 2011 results.