The Johannesburg Stock Exchange has established a point-of-presence (PoP) at a UK data centre with low-latency service provider Fixnetix, facilitating access to its bourse for non-domestic market participants.
Qatar's inability to improve foreign ownership limitations and continuing fears over how the UAE deals with failed trades have stopped index provider MSCI from upgrading the two countries to emerging markets status.
The Bahrain Financial Exchange, the first multi-asset exchange in the Middle East and North Africa region, has commenced trading on its conventional market segment.
UK telecoms provider BT has added market data from the Qatar Exchange to its Radianz Cloud community as it continues to build up its exchange connectivity network.
Deutsche Bank is now providing direct access to the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, allowing institutional clients to access the bourse through the German bank’s Autobahn Equity business.
Global agency broker Bloomberg Tradebook has launched a DMA trading platform that will connect local and international institutional investors to two United Arab Emirates stock exchanges.
Auerbach Grayson, a New York-based broker specialising in global trade execution and research services, has announced a partnership with IS Investment, the investment banking arm of Turkey-based Isbank.
Index provider MSCI has said that it will extend the review period for the potential upgrading of the MSCI Qatar and UAE indexes from frontier to emerging market status.
BNY Mellon, the investment management and securities servicing firm, has launched BNY Mellon Clearing International, a derivatives clearing services provider for buy- and sell-side institutions in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Qatar's Supreme Council for Economic Affairs and Investment has approved the establishment of a junior market for small and medium enterprises at Qatar Exchange.