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The Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange is set to raise the minimum number of shares that can be transacted in order from 50 to 100. It had planned to effect the change on January 18, but after testing and interaction with securities companies it has decided to…
The bank joins other major FX participants in serving strong institutional FX flows in Asia, as the republic aims to boost its role as the global FX price discovery and liquidity hub in the Asian time zone. UOB will launch an electronic foreign exchange (FX)…
The Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) has resumed regular operations on Friday after a technical outage that lasted all day Thursday. TSE is currently planning to replace the hardware and taking steps, including other maintenance, to ensure normal trading from…
The platform is the company’s fourth global currency pricing, following others in London, Tokyo, and New York. Goldman Sachs will be launching a foreign-exchange (FX) trading and pricing engine in Singapore, planned for the first quarter of 2021, the company…
The VN-Index edged up 0.14 percent to 897.47 points Wednesday, with trading volume significantly down compared to the last several sessions. The Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange (HoSE), on which the VN-Index is based, saw a fairly balanced session with 183 stocks…
Barclays’ head foreign exchange trading in Asia Pacific will reportedly exit just 18 months after joining the British bank. Pritpal Gill, head of G10 FX and FX options trading in the region, has been let go by Barclays, according to a report citing unnamed…
Developed by the bank’s Digital Asset Management department, the application is the first third-party app from a China-based financial institution on the Eikon platform. Bank of China is launching DeepFX, an AI-based forex trading prediction application…
Standard Chartered’s newly set up electronic pricing engine for global currencies completed its first-ever trade with promising improvements to efficiency. The trade was executed earlier this week with counterparty UOB and resulted in a reduction in trade…
BNP Paribas announced its plans to launch an electronic FX pricing and trading engine in Singapore in a move to further improve efficiency and liquidity in the city-state’s market. The new offering will include 50 currencies in spot, forwards, swaps,…
Global stock markets closing for Christmas break on Wednesday could reduce selling pressure from foreign investors and help the VN-Index recover, analysts say. With foreign investors have been net sellers for the majority of sessions in December, the…
In another move to internationalize Chinese markets, plans are underway for a Shanghai-Frankfurt stock link driven in part for Europe’s «unabated eagerness» for collaboration with the second-largest economy. The China Europe International Exchange (CEINEX) is…
Citi will drop links to two-thirds of the existing foreign exchange platforms it is using, in a move to consolidate technology and reduce costs. Citi will reduce the number of FX platforms it uses from 45 to 15 by the first quarter of 2020, citing anonymous…
Up to five trading houses were affected by the attack, which disrupted trading from 30 minutes to up to the whole morning session. Several brokerage houses in Singapore were hit by distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on October 24, the Monetary…
Singapore banks will enjoy increased FX volumes going forward as the country grows as a foreign exchange (FX hub), banking heads said. «Singapore is fast evolving into a natural hub for FX in Asia with the many initiatives to promote FX trading in the region,…
Vietnamese shares slid yesterday as large-cap companies faced strong selling amidst a lack of supportive information while investors awaited discussions on the amended securities law. The benchmark VN-Index on the Hồ Chí Minh Stock Exchange fell 0.91 per cent…
TradeGecko, a leading technology company that provides cloud-based inventory and order management solutions for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), today launched its Founder Plan, expanding access to its powerful technology platform to early-stage…
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