Regions Archive

Asset managers' reliance on advice from third-party vendors and clearing brokers as they prepare for new swaps reporting and trading regimes could lead to significant compliance delays, an expert has warned. read more>

Deutsche Börse-owned International Securities Exchange will launch its second US options exchange before the end of Q2, the company said yesterday. read more>

First-quarter figures for block trading venue Liquidnet have shown institutional investors in Europe again trading equities in size. The firm's Europe chief attributed the resurgence to regional stabilisation. read more>

Investors will abandon short-term trades amid a "dramatic" market contraction if the EU fails to exempt the repo market from its proposed financial transaction tax, according to Ulf Bacher, head of the agency cash management platform at prime broker Newedge. read more>

Australia's new listed derivatives venue FEX Futures Exchange is set to launch mid-year, after receiving regulatory approval to trade by the Government. read more>

One of Japan's top three banks, Mizuho Financial Group, has fired the last remaining member of the Lehman Brothers electronic trading team it brought to Japan in 2008. read more>

India's newest exchange MCX-SX is working to raise low volumes in cash equities and derivatives, including a move to strengthen its Liquidity Enhancement Scheme to incentivise market making and help challenge the duopoly of the National Stock Exchange and the smaller Bombay Stock Exchange. read more>

Liquidity in derivatives instruments on Deutsche Börse's Eurex platform could shift to competitors NYSE Liffe and Nasdaq's new NLX venue as a new German law requires high-frequency trading firms to register with national regulator BaFin. read more>

The Vienna Stock Exchange has played down rumours that it is in discussions with the Warsaw Stock Exchange about a possible merger. read more>

The Singapore Exchange on Thursday signed an agreement with the China Financial Futures Exchange (CFFEX) to collaborate on the development of the two countries' derivatives markets. read more>