Asia

SBI Financial Services agreed to take a minority stake in B2C2 in July and has now acquired the firm fully amid plans to launch a crypto dealing desk.

Seiichiro Miyaoka joins IHS Markit as head of the Global Markets Group in Asia from broker dealer Mizuho Securities.

Tim Gits joins Quantitative Brokers as sales director after 12 years at Eurex and will target expansion into Asia Pacific. 

FX trading and pricing engine from Macquarie will give traders access to developed and emerging regional markets including Australia, Singapore, Japan, China and others. 

Miyahara Koichiro has resigned effective immediately following a hardware malfunction that caused a day-long blackout at the Tokyo Stock Exchange in October. 

The Beeks CaaS provides ultra-low latency access to SGX trading platforms via shared or dedicated fibre uplinks through the Beeks infrastructure. 

The new office will complement the overall China strategy at Pictet Asset Management, including investing onshore in China for global clients.

The HKEX futures and options contracts will launch on 23 November 2020 and 18 January 2021 respectively as the first ETDs to track the Hang Seng TECH index.

Joel Jerome joins Gresham Technologies after working in senior sale roles at Finastra, OpenLink, and ITC Infotech.

Ititivi will deploy its multi-asset OMS to Hong Kong-based equity broker KGI Asia for high- and low-touch trading capabilities.