Tag: Direct market access

Martin Wheatley, chief executive of the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission, has acknowledged that alternative trading venues are a global trend with which individual regulators need to engage.

Trading solutions provider Townsend Analytics has integrated broking firm TD Securities’ algorithms and electronic execution services for Canada and the US into its RealTick execution management system.

“Project Turquoise is undoubtedly going to come to Japan,” announced Neil Katkov, group head of research at Celent Japan, the research and consulting firm, speaking at TradeTech Japan 2008 conference in Tokyo today.

CA Cheuvreux, the broking group owned by French bank Credit Agricole, has announced a further expansion of its central and eastern European presence.

Advanced Financial Applications (AFA), an EMS/OMS trading technology provider, has expanded its asset class coverage to include global equity markets.

Is Investment, a Turkish investment house, has launched a DMA platform to access the Istanbul Stock Exchange (ISE).

NYSE Euronext and Bursa Malaysia have launched a new direct market access (DMA) trading platform for the Malaysian derivatives market.

The future of Dresdner Kleinwort's direct market access (DMA) business was called into question Friday, following unconfirmed reports of redundancies in its DMA division.

It was announced on Tuesday that as part of its continued international growth, the listed derivatives business within Macquarie Bank's futures division is increasing the scope of its DMA offering to clients and has signed an agreement to take a hosted global trading solution from Patsystems, a solutions provider for derivatives trading performance and trade processing, from the first quarter 2008.

NeoNet, a DMA agency broker and trading technology provider, announced on Monday that it is connected to Instinet's Chi-X, an alternative equities trading system that directly competes with traditional exchanges in Europe.