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Most Asia markets advance, with Nikkei rising as yen slips
April 12th, 2016
Most major Asia markets ended higher Tuesday, shrugging off after a lower finish in U.S. equities overnight ahead of earnings season. Australia’s ASX 200 added 44.06 points, or 0.89 percent, to 4,975.60, boosted by a 1.73 percent gain in the heavily-weighted ...
Asia markets broadly lower as risk-off sentiment settles in
April 8th, 2016
Asia markets were broadly lower on Friday, after U.S. equities sold off overnight amid renewed concerns over global growth and the effectiveness of central bank policy. Australia’s ASX 200 retraced some of the early losses to trade down 0.4 percent, as ...
Fidessa and Alpha Omega partner to offer one-stop-shop for post-trade
April 7th, 2016
Fidessa group plc (LSE: FDSA) today announced it has signed a partnership agreement with Alpha Omega that will leverage Fidessa’s post-trade Affirmation Management Service (AMS). This utility provides alternative low-cost affirmation processing to Fidessa’s extensive community of buy-sides and ...
Asia markets higher; Nikkei turns up on slightly weaker yen
April 6th, 2016
Asia markets turned higher on Wednesday, shrugging off a global sell-off in equities overnight, as oil prices advanced and activity in China’s services sector showed signs of pick-up. Australia’s ASX 200 was up 0.54 percent. Japan’s Nikkei 225 wavered before trading up 0.28 ...
RBI:India Cuts Rates,First Bi-monthly Monetary Policy Statement, 2016-17
April 5th, 2016
Part A: Monetary Policy Monetary and Liquidity Measures On the basis of an assessment of the current and evolving macroeconomic situation, it has been decided to: reduce the policy repo rate under the liquidity adjustment facility (LAF) by 25 ...
GTX launches high-speed binary market data protocols on its FX ECN
April 5th, 2016
GTX, the institutional foreign exchange trading arm of GAIN Capital Holdings Inc., announced today it has launched live market data binary protocols free of charge to clients of its ECN trading platform. GTX developed the binary protocols to meet requests ...
Deutsche Bank just lost its prime position in a prominent investment banking league table
April 4th, 2016
Deutsche Bank is suffering — it lost £5.1 billion ($7.4 billion) in 2015, shares tumbled, it is cutting thousands of jobs to shore up costs, and some of its key businesses continue to suffer. So it comes as no surprise that ...
Asia markets mixed; Nikkei up 0.4%, Kospi down 0.5%
March 31st, 2016
Asia markets traded mixed on Thursday, with some markets partially retracing their advances following Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen’s cautious stance on the path of tightening earlier this week. Japan’s Nikkei 225 wavered between gains and losses before trading up 0.41 percent, while ...
DTCC and Digital Asset to Develop Distributed Ledger Solution to Drive Improvements in Repo Clearing
March 30th, 2016
Firms sign agreement to develop proof of concept to improve the current U.S. repurchase agreement clearing process The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, and Digital Asset Holdings ...
Most Asian markets up in wake of dovish Yellen remarks, but Nikkei lags
March 30th, 2016
Most Asian markets advanced after remarks from Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen assuaged concerns about a near-term interest rate hike, but Japan’s shares retreated as the yen strengthened. “Janet Yellen doubled down on dovishness, in a speech full of risks to ...
