Regions Archive

A clearing and settlement code of conduct released by Australia's incumbent exchange last week signals the venue operator will look to consolidate its current monopoly position before equities clearing competition begins in the country. read more>

Market changes driven by regulation and technology offer opportunities that should not be stifled by uninformed fear of the unfamiliar, regulators and stakeholders agreed on the opening morning of TradeTech 2013 in London today. read more>

A large-scale crash in financial markets due to automated trading is inevitable and MiFID's policy-makers are still out of step with how financial markets technology works, a senior academic claimed at high-frequency trading event in London yesterday. read more>

Barclays claims the automated capital commitment feature launched this week for its US clients will "shift the industry" towards hybrid alternatives to electronic trading. read more>

Tokyo-based Japannext will next month launch a platform that allows orders to be crossed before the primary exchange market opens and settled at the volume-weighted average price after it closes. read more>

Exchanges in Asia have shown strong performance in March, as they recover from a weaker than usual February, according to a new report. read more>

Nomura will develop new fixed income indices as part of new collaboration with S&P Dow Jones Indices, based on the Japanese investment bank's Bond Performance Index. read more>

Barclays has introduced a 'toxicity framework' to its LX dark pool that it claims makes predatory trading easier to identify. read more>

European trading veteran Mark Spanbroek has been appointed non-executive director of new European equities trading venue Aquis Exchange. read more>

A loophole created by the exception of OTC derivatives from the issuance principle in the European financial transaction tax proposal needs to be closed as it could "prove detrimental" to the tax's success, a European Parliament report says. read more>