Market Data & Technology

Trading & Investment

HKEX Reports on Business Progress in Quarterly Results

By Manesh Samtani | 10/05/2019

Among the updates are plans to extend trading hours for derivatives products and introduce new interest rate derivatives. HKEX also reportedly plans to shorten IPO settlement to T+1.

AI Risk & Governance

Japan FSA Seeks AI Expertise to Examine Securities Reports

By Editors | 09/05/2019

The FSA is looking to conduct an experiment to explore the use of AI to read and analyse the data in annual securities reports published by listed companies.

Clearing & Post-Trade

ASX Opens Testing Environment for CHESS Replacement

By Editors | 08/05/2019

ASX has made available the first of seven ‘drops’ of software code, with additional functionality set to be released at eight-week intervals.

Market Data & Technology

FSB Designates UK Agency as Sole UPI Service Provider

By Editors | 03/05/2019

The Derivatives Service Bureau will be the sole issuer of UPI codes and operate the UPI reference data library, facilitating the use of OTC trade reporting data in assessing systemic risk.

Trading & Investment

MAS Seeks to Strengthen Singapore as a Global Hub for FX Trading

By Editors | 26/04/2019

MAS has reportedly been encouraging major FX players to build their systems, trading engines and data centres locally to reduce latencies from routing trades through other FX hubs.

Structural Regulation

ISDA, FIA Respond to Singapore, Australia BMR Equivalence

By Manesh Samtani | 19/04/2019

The associations say a preferred approach would be to recognise Singapore’s and Australia’s regimes as a whole rather than the current benchmark-by-benchmark approach.

Clearing & Post-Trade

DTCC Partners with Droit to Automate Pre-Reporting Decision-Making

By Editors | 10/04/2019

DTCC’s pre-reporting solution can now determine – in real-time – the global cross-regulatory reporting implications and obligations for a particular transaction.

Clearing & Post-Trade

SWIFT Sees Growing ISO 20022 Adoption in Asia Pacific

By Manesh Samtani | 03/04/2019

SWIFT has released a new report on the state of adoption of the ISO 20022 financial messaging standard among Asia Pacific securities market infrastructures.

Trading & Investment

Automated Trading Does Not Impact End-of-Day Volatility – CFTC

By Editors | 01/04/2019

A new report reveals that the rise of automated orders has not resulted in a systematic increase in end-of-day price volatility over a 6 year period.