The proposed merger between the Australian Securities Exchange and the Singapore Exchange has been endorsed by a report from consultancy Access Economics, entitled 'ASX-SGX: why the combination is in Australia's national interest'.
CQG, an order execution, charting and analytics provider, has set up its spreader core servers at exchange group NYSE Euronext's Basildon data centre, in direct proximity to the NYSE Liffe derivatives market.
Deutsche Börse is making its algorithmic news feed, AlphaFlash, available in two data centres in Singapore and adding macroeconomic data from China, Japan and Australia, as part of an ongoing rollout in Asia-Pacific.
Société Générale Corporate and Investment Banking has strengthened its equity trading capabilities with the creation of a new sales and sales trading team focused on the CEEMEA region.
The French arm of European clearing house LCH.Clearnet has started operating on a new cash equity trading platform to help it better serve multiple markets and provide greater efficiencies to members.
The headline issue for the European Commission's review of MiFID is dark pools. Introducing a threshold for order sizes on dark pools could threaten the models of some but equally could improve the buy-side's ability to trade large blocks.
The Australian Securities Exchange has launched ASX Trade, its new platform for equities and derivatives trading, which it claims is among the fastest in the world.