Asia

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. 

SGX confirmed in May that it would be delisting its MSCI futures by February 2021, as Eurex Exchange says it has increased its market share.  

Tokyo Stock Exchange suffers trading shut down for entire day as cash equities system arrowhead is hit by a major hardware malfunction. 

Charles Li will now retire in December with HKEX chief operating officer, Calvin Tai, set to take over as interim CEO as the search for a permanent chief executive is undertaken.