Following the acquisition of Prima SGR, Italian Banca Popolare di Milano's asset management firm Anima SGR, has chosen the Charles River Investment Management System to help support its needs once the merger of the two firms takes effect 1 January 2012.
New analysis of trading tactics during the extreme volatility that rocked European markets in August shows that buy-side firms shunned patient opportunistic trading strategies.
Trading in Australia came to a standstill Thursday when all markets on the exchange’s ultra-low latency trading platform – ASX Trade – were suspended for more than three hours.
UBS's David Rabinowitz says the Singapore Exchange's hopes of adding liquidity and reducing volatility through the introduction of all-day trading and the world’s fastest trading engine have yet to be realised.
Next Monday will mark a new era of competition in Australia’s equity market with the launch of alternative trading system Chi-X Australia. While the Australian Securities Exchange has embraced the impending multi-market environment, the full impact of new market integrity rules may take months if not years to unfold.
Twenty-five years after the so-called Big Bang cleared the way for an era of greater securities market competition and efficiency, experienced market participants fear that the industry’s innovative spark is danger of being extinguished.
The Singapore Exchange has opened a public consultation ahead of the launch of MSCI Indonesian index futures. The exchange has also reported the successful launch of its clearing service for OTC traded non-deliverable foreign exchange forwards.
By 2015, assets under management are expected to nearly double in Asia (ex-Japan and Australia) from their present levels, according to a recent study.
Global data centre provider Equinix has revealed details of a series of moves designed to give European participants better access to data centre services.
Institutional investment firms have welcomed proposals in MiFID II to bolster best execution, but admit that more most be done to hold the sell-side to account on execution performance.