Osaka Securities Exchange, Japan's largest derivatives venue, and India's Bombay Stock Exchange have signed a memorandum of understanding to develop opportunities including cross-licensing of indices and other potential areas of cooperation.
Trading technology provider Fidessa has launched a new platform tailored specifically for trading in Mexico, following the introduction of new market regulations in September 2010.
Equity and derivatives venue Korea Exchange has launched 12 exchange-traded funds on its platform so far this month, including an instrument that tracks US dollar fluctuations.
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing is offering investors real-time basic prices from its securities and derivatives markets through a range of information vendors, allowing them to offer data via interactive platforms such as websites and mobile applications.
In today's fast-trading environment where automated strategies are often up against one another, brokers' ability to implement real-time risk management tools has become all the more crucial, says Murat Atamer, head of AES product, Asia Pacific, at broker Credit Suisse.
The electronic trading arm of Deutsche Bank, Autobahn Equity, has unveiled a new version of its Stealth liquidity-seeking algorithm, which uses high-frequency trading models to help institutions interact with short-term liquidity more effectively.
Fears that a merger of the US market's largest exchange operators, NYSE Euronext and Nasdaq OMX, would lead to imbalance in the concentration of trading volumes have been dismissed by buy-side firms contacted by The TRADE.
US regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission and industry body the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority have confirmed plans to establish a new 'limit up-limit down' mechanism to address extraordinary market volatility in US equity markets.
ConvergEx Group, a provider of trading technology, has added Brazilian futures and options functionality to RealTick 10, its multi-asset class execution management system.