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Asia-Pac Traders React to Barclays’ Dark Pool Case

Asia-Pac Traders React to Barclays’ Dark Pool Case

Kent Rossiter, head of Regional Asia-Pacific Trading for asset manager Allianz Global Investors -Buy-side traders are more wary but urge prudence and diligence over pulling the plug on dark pools. Dan Barnes reports. On 25 June 2014 the New York Attorney General, Eric Schneiderman filed a >>

HK SFC fines HSBC Securities $5 million for Providing Inaccurate Information in Licence Application

HK SFC fines HSBC Securities $5 million for Providing Inaccurate Information in Licence Application

HSBC Hong Kong HeadquartersThe Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has reprimanded HSBC Securities Brokers (Asia) Limited (HSBC Securities), a wholly owned subsidiary of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited (HSBC), and fined it $5 million for providing inaccurate information to >>

ASIC Puts a Leash on Broker Dark Pools

ASIC Puts a Leash on Broker Dark Pools

Emma Quinn, head of Asia Pacific trading, AllianceBernstein New rules succeed in pushing liquidity from dark to lit markets Australian market participants have seen a move of between 3-4% of total market volume from dark pool trading into lit venues since dark trading was restricted in May, >>

Best Execution in Dark Pools

Best Execution in Dark Pools

Dark pools can be vital sources of liquidity for buy-side firms, but to achieve best execution in broker dark pools, asset managers must ensure that they understand the pool’s characteristics and have the right feedback in place to monitor routing. With end investors demanding greater levels of >>

What Does Best Execution Mean in a Dark Pool?

What Does Best Execution Mean in a Dark Pool?

Purpose: Alternative venues are steadily rising in prominence in Asia with the help of technology, regulation and user education. As sophistication of Asia buy-sides continues to improve best execution rules will require granular and more transparent definitions in markets that are just now >>

Professor Alex Frino, CEO of CMCRC

Dark Liquidity Could Damage Market Quality and Increase Trading Costs

Professor Alex Frino, CEO of CMCRCProfessor Alex Frino, CEO of Capital Markets Co-operative Research Centre (CMCRC) and Professor of Finance at the University of Sydney Business School, released new research June 27 indicating that dark liquidity could damage market quality and increase trading >>

HSBC Puts Retail Investor Dark Pool On Ice

Banking giant HSBC Holdings PLC put its plans to launch Hong Kong’s first-ever dark pool for retail investors on ice, it said Tuesday, dimming prospects for the development of alternative liquidity pools in the Chinese territory. The U.K.-based bank said it decided to launch its controversial >>

HK Securities Regulator Restricts HSBC Dark Pool To Professional Investors

Hong Kong's securities regulator said on its website that banking giant HSBC Holdings PLC (0005.HK) can only offer its dark pool services to professional investors, scuttling the bank's earlier plans to market the product to retail investors. The Securities and Futures Commission on Monday >>

NZX Says AXE ECN To Be Wound Up

New Zealand exchange operators NZX Ltd will wind up its Australian subsidiary AXE ECN after deciding there is no market opportunity for the joint venture, the company said on Friday. AXE ECN was set up in 2006 with the aim of providing a low cost electronic platform for large trades in the >>

HK To Gather More Data On Dark Pool Operators

Hong Kong's alternative liquidity pool operators earlier this month received a letter from the city's exchange operator advising them they will have to start reporting their trades using a new transaction code, in a move that could shed more light on the developing and inherently opaque business. >>