Exchanges Archive

The Stock Exchange of Thailand has reported a 31.5% decrease in securities trading volume in the year to January 2012. read more>

US market operator BATS Global Markets will waive listing fees for companies whose stock or exchange-traded product trades over an average of two million shares per day. read more>

The Securities and Exchange Commission has again extended the comment period for NYSE Euronext’s plans to establish a dark pool for retail investors after admitting that the plans “raise novel market structure issues” that warrant further consideration. read more>

Eurex, the derivatives exchange owned by Deutsche Börse, plans to introduce a new trading system in Q4 this year, based on Deutsche Börse Group’s proprietary global trading architecture, which is already in use at the US-based International Securities Exchange. read more>

South Africa’s Johannesburg Stock Exchange is to benefit from a policy change by South Africa’s National Treasury that allows foreign domiciled companies to be included in domestic indices. read more>

Bursa Malaysia’s derivatives trading revenue jumped 36% to RM51.2 million (US$17 million) last year as securities average daily trading value increased 14% to RM1.79 billion (US$0.6 billion), securing a sharp increase in profits for the southeast Asian exchange. read more>

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEx) is to launch its first renminbi (RMB)-denominated exchange-traded fund (ETF), the Hang Seng RMB Gold ETF, on 14 February. read more>

While electronic order books have now supplanted open outcry trading all over the globe, human interaction on the NYSE floor can still offer a significant source of liquidity for buy-side institutions, according to Harish Devarajan, CEO of Deep Value. read more>

The actions of a Japanese regulator following an outage at the Tokyo Stock Exchange has led to calls from the country’s proprietary trading systems to rethink rules governing alternative venues. read more>

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEx) has reported a decrease of 26% in average daily turnover – a loss partly attributable to a 13% drop in the Hang Seng Index. read more>