Tag: Asia-Pacific

September 01, 2016 BY Mike Fox

Singapore’s share of global FX volumes grows to 7.9%, remains 3rd overall

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) announced today that Singapore remains the largest foreign exchange (FX) centre in the Asia-Pacific region and third largest globally after London and New York, according to the 2016 Triennial Central Bank Survey of the global FX and over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives markets by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS). The average…

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August 02, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

Financial institutions provider Axioma launches Australia office

  The innovative risk-management and portfolio-construction solutions to financial institutions provider Axioma has announced the launch of its Australia office and the appointment of Brian Smith as the Head of Australia and New Zealand. The launch underscores the increasing demand from institutional clients and asset owners for risk-management and portfolio-construction tools to support decision-making across complex multi-asset…

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July 19, 2016 BY Mike Fox

Chan Wai Kin joins XTX Markets as Head of Sales for Asia

XTX Markets today announced that Chan Wai Kin has joined the firm’s sales team as Head of Sales for Asia. He was formerly Head of FICC eCommerce (APAC) at Morgan Stanley and previous to that, led the eFX sales team within the APAC (ex-Japan) region at Deutsche Bank. Jeremy Smart, Global Head of Sales at…

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October 22, 2015 BY Mike Fox

HKEx proposes to build "London-Hong Kong Connect"

Hong Kong Futures Exchange Limited (HKFE), HKFE Clearing Corporation Limited (HKCC), the London Metal Exchange (LME) and LME Clear Limited (LME Clear), subsidiaries of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx) and members of the HKEx Group, today signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding (MOU) for the proposed development of a trading link between HKFE…

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October 20, 2015 BY Maria Nikolova

MetaQuotes builds Asia Pacific presence, opens new office in Tokyo

MetaQuotes Software Corp., the developer of the popular platforms MetaTrader 4 and MetaTrader 5, today announces the opening of a new representative office — MetaQuotes Japan in Tokyo. This is the twelfth representative office of MetaQuotes in the world. The company currently has five offices in the Asia-Pacific region, located in Australia, China, Singapore, Thailand and Japan.…

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July 13, 2015 BY Mike Fox

Taiwan Futures Exchange sets RMB futures launch date for July 20th

After months and weeks of preparation to clear regulatory hurdles, the Taiwan Futures Exchange finally announced today in an official notice that RMB futures will launch on Monday, July 20th. You can read the official notice below: The USD/CNT FX futures(RTF) and USD/CNH FX futures(RHF) will be launched on July 20th. The position limits of…

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