Market Data & Technology

    News coverage on regulatory standards and innovations in market data infrastructure and technologies that support efficient, transparent, and secure financial market operations.

    Trading & Investment

    Japan FSA Orders JPX, TSE to Improve Following Market Outage

    By Editors | 30/11/2020

    TSE President and CEO Koichiro Miyahara has resigned to take responsibility for a system failure that caused a full-day market closure in October.

    Market Data & Technology

    NZX to Create Industry Working Group on Capital Markets Technology

    By Editors | 30/11/2020

    The working group will develop a roadmap to solve for New Zealand’s lack of scale and geographic isolation through the use of technology.

    Clearing & Post-Trade

    HKEX Outlines Derivatives Market Enhancements for 2021

    By Editors | 26/11/2020

    Market participants who plan to trade or clear selected derivatives contracts during Hong Kong public holidays will be asked to demonstrate technical readiness.

    Conduct, Culture & Accountability

    NZX Formalises Role of Technology Committee in Enhancing Governance

    By Editors | 26/11/2020

    The specialist committee was established in April as an interim measure in response to technical issues stemming from record trading volumes.

    Trading & Investment

    ASIC Launches Probe into ASX Over Equity Market Outage

    By Manesh Samtani | 23/11/2020

    ASIC had earlier said it would determine whether ASX followed the relevant regulatory requirements and met its licence obligations.

    Structural Regulation

    FSC Korea Set to Implement Financial Benchmark Act

    By Editors | 22/11/2020

    The FSC has enacted an enforcement decree setting out the requirements for benchmark administrators, contributors and users.

    Trading & Investment

    UPDATED – First Brokers Approved to Use TSE’s CONNEQTOR Platform

    By Editors | 22/11/2020

    CONNEQTOR enables institutional investors who want to trade a particular ETF at a particular quantity to send an RFQs to market makers.

    Market Data & Technology

    ASIC Flags Concerns Over Further Infrastructure Issues at ASX

    By Editors | 17/11/2020

    Following a near-full day market closure, data issues prevented ASX from displaying Chi-X bids and offers on its Centre Point matching system.

    Trading & Investment

    ASX Suffers Near Full Day Outage Due to ‘Software Issue’

    By Editors | 16/11/2020

    ASIC said it was focused on ensuring that market integrity is not compromised and that it would monitor for any impacts resulting from Monday’s failure.

    Trading & Investment

    Indonesia Launches Electronic Trading in Bond, Sukuk Markets

    By Editors | 15/11/2020

    The platform was designed by London software firm AxeTrading to accommodate Indonesia’s bond and sukuk markets, and boost liquidity and efficiency.

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