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The Korea Exchange plans to launch a new auction-based block trading service, A-Blox, for trading securities from the Kopsi and Kosdaq indices.

Chi-X Global could expand on three fronts in Asia over the next few quarters, but CEO John Lowrey believes Chi-East – the first exchange-led dark pool in the region – could be the real “game-changer”.

New York-based agency broker and financial technology firm Investment Technology Group has announced that is hiring Jamie Selway as a managing director in its New York office.

Although it will be signed into US law this week, the Dodd-Frank bill is not close to effecting the reforms to the financial system that its thousands of pages contain.

NYSE Technologies, the commercial technology unit of exchange group NYSE Euronext, has launched Order Routing Direct, a managed point-to-point order routing service.

US trading venue Direct Edge will start trading as an official stock exchange from today, after completing its migration to a new technology platform and data centre.

The Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR), the body that harmonises securities markets regulation across Europe, has issued consultation papers on measures to make the European OTC derivatives market more secure and efficient.

Barclays Capital, the investment banking division of Barclays Bank, has launched a new tool that offers clients real-time analysis of equities trading performance.

Agency brokerage and trading technology provider ITG has extended its European algorithmic offering to cover markets in Israel, Hungary and Poland.

Stock exchanges' announcements of unbundling pre- and post-trade data have passed the 'hot potato' of transparency to OTC traders.