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Liquidnet and OTAS ramp up AI play

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2018
... Liquidnet's acquisition of equity analytics firm OTAS Technologies is beginning to bear fruit for Australian institutional traders and investment offices, particularly following MiFID II implementation. About 12 months into the partnership, the institutional ...

Westpac off the hook in BBSW scandal

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2018
... "unconscionable" on four of the 16 occasions that ASIC alleged the bank manipulated the BBSW. While ASIC failed to prove Westpac traders had manipulated the BBSW, the bank was found to have inadequate procedures and training. It contravened its financial ...

Saxo Capital Markets hires Aussie markets strategist

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAY 2018
... hold responsibility for co-ordinating, monitoring and implementing equity strategies and research for both investors and traders. Additionally, Creagh will develop quantitative models and customised mathematical frameworks for Saxo's institutional clients. ...

Fintech launches active trading platform with no monthly fees

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2018
... 35,000 financial instruments at no monthly fees and without expensive legacy hardware. The product is aimed at professional traders and smaller institutional investors, according to Saxo Capital Markets Australia chief executive Ben Smoker. "With SaxoTraderPRO ...

Digital broker partners for multi-asset trading

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 16 APR 2018
... investors, with the new integration set to provide the platform with access to the world's largest community of buy-side traders and portfolio managers in the world. OpenMarkets chief executive officer Andrea Marani said the step was essential for OpenMarkets ...

Tech selloff builds cash pile at Pengana

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2018
... core placements, such as the gas distribution system in China, but taking opportunistic bets such as Dutch ETF maker Flow Traders which thrives on market volatility. The only no-go zone as Pengana looks for tech stock replacements is financials with ...

Australia's first OTC trading desk for digital currencies opens

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAR 2018
... trading desks, but there is no digital currency equivalent in Australia as yet. By establishing an OTC desk with sales traders we're able to connect institutions with one another, so they can trade without moving the market or getting price slippage." ...

Women-led super funds outperform again

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAR 2018
... market trading performance of Finnish investors by University of NSW and Sydney University academics that found women traders consistently outperformed male counterparts. Last year a study by Scandinavian bank Nordea of 11,000 globally-traded companies ...

SMSFs and instos driving crypto exchange growth

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 FEB 2018
... exciting for me to join as this is coming about," he said. Independent Reserve was founded in 2013 and allows investors and traders to buy and sell bitcoin and ethereum, taking deposits of up to $20 million per day.

EY issues ICO theft warning

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JAN 2018
... Russia and China each raising US$300m; Australia raised about $34m. The research also found the ICO network is congested as traders and business operations compete for limited transaction slots; ethereum is the most popular platform to raise funds. But ...