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.
The Securities Exchange Board of India has confirmed that it is reviewing options to remedy the lack of interoperability between India's two securities clearing houses, but market participants are pessimistic that regulatory action will boost smart order routing volumes in the near term.
Pipeline, a block-trading venue operator and agency brokerage, will launch its multilateral trading facility in early May, offering European market participants a fresh way of executing block trades that includes an element of pre-trade transparency.
Birla Sun Life Asset Management, an Indian mutual fund manager, has teamed up with post-trade processing firm Omgeo to reduce the inefficiencies related to manual settlement processes.