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Majority ready for MiFID II: Spot poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 8 JAN 2018
... strategy for APAC, Drew Brick, said one important change that must be embraced is that everything must be digitised. Voice trading, particularly for over the counter (OTC) trades and every discussion related to executing trades must to be stored - even ...

Happier New Year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 JAN 2018
... rise." But this calls to mind that old adage, "so goes January, so goes the rest of the year" - specifically, the first trading week of January as it had done so in 2017. Equity market returns: 1st week of Jan 2017 Full-year 2017 Nasdaq 2.56 28.24 MSCI ...

Industry names team up for cryptocurrency fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 21 DEC 2017
... technology officer Michael Kong and chief investment officer Jake Choi, formerly of Macquarie Bank. The fund is set to commence trading on 1 January 2018 with a minimal investment of US$100,000. The launch coincides with news that the price of Bitcoin ...

Platinum sells $24m Asia stake

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 14 DEC 2017
... sale came about due to "substantial investor demand" for shares which could "not be easily met by the ordinary ASX daily trading volume in the stock." At this time, Platinum still holds 30 million PAI shares, making it the largest shareholder in the ...

Listed advice firm loses major shareholder

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 14 DEC 2017
... funds under advice grew by 8% to $42.5 billion. Bell FG executive chair Colin Bell said that despite "somewhat mixed" trading conditions over the period, he was pleased to report a slight improvement in net profit, which facilitated an increase in the ...

CBA admits to anti-money laundering breaches, AUSTRAC flags new allegations

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 14 DEC 2017
... enhanced digital electronic customer verification processes to supplement face-to-face identification. CBA shares were trading at $79.76 at publication time.

Down, down business conditions are down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 DEC 2017
... than offsetting the 7 point surge that sent it to the record high reading of 21 in the previous month. The results for "trading" (down 14 points in November after rising by 11 points in October) and "profitability" (down 11 points after a 9-point increase ...

ASX pioneers blockchain technology

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 7 DEC 2017
... "carefully" as the ASX becomes the first major stock exchange to implement distributed ledger technology (DLT) across its trading platform, says deputy chief executive Peter Hiom. In announcing it will replace its trades settlement system, CHESS, with ...

Calastone adopts blockchain

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 5 DEC 2017
... imminent introduction of MiFID II, blockchain can provide much needed relief to reduce costs, and deliver friction-free trading and regulatory transparency, Hammerson said. Calastone's network has more than 1300 financial service organisations across ...

Banks feeling heat as MiFID II looms: Liquidnet

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 4 DEC 2017
... provided the best-in-the-world products, though. It's just that they've controlled the market with bundled research and trading, everything. It's not unlike the Royal Commission here, where you have a few banks that control everything, and as we've seen ...