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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 29 MAR 2010
... last year to an annual pace of 5.6 per cent, from an earlier estimate of 5.9 per cent, had minimal impact on equities trading. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed up 9.15 points, or 0.08 per cent, at 10,850.36 points. The broad-market Standard & ...

BT Wrap tackles bigger bulk order trading

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 15 MAR 2010
... multi-client bulk order trading facility to improve its platform services to advisers. The new Multi-Client Bulk Order equities trading functionality includes the ability to buy or sell a single listed security for up to 25 clients on the screen in one ...

Desktop Broker signs on 17 clients

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2009
Direct equities trading platform Desktop Broker has recruited 17 dealer groups to use its services since February this year - partly driven by the firm's "10 business days or less" payment system. Desktop Broker, which has links with ASX-listed Bell ...

CBA adds Apama software

PRESS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2009
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has added Progress Software Corporation's equities trading software to make the bank's trading division more efficient. The software, Progress Apama, allows the bank's traders to apply specific and proprietary algorithms ...

BT revamps wrap for equities

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2009
BT Financial Group is heeding its advisers' calls for more efficient equities trading and recently unveiled a three-year program to rework the BT Wrap platform. The three year program, which begins next Monday, will include the introduction of bulk ...

Embracing derivatives: South Korea

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2008
... increase in trading, particularly by active traders," he adds. At the moment, over half of retail derivatives and equities trading is through online channels, including mobile phones. South Korea's brokerage landscape is fragmented, with the market shared ...

Liquidnet trading reaches $1 billion

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2008
... electronic marketplace, Liquidnet, since it's inception in February this year. Liquidnet facilitates institutional equities trading for various asset management firms worldwide. The firm's trading model consolidates and delivers the international equities ...

Credit Suisse buys AXE stake

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2008
Credit Suisse has purchased a stake in the alternative equities trading platform, AXE Electronic Communications Network (ECN). AXE ECN is a fast, low cost way of trading securities by avoiding stock markets, whereby a broker matches buyers and sellers ...

QIC appoints Aussie trading desk head

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2007
... Austock Securities executive Chris Claridge as head of equities dealing. Claridge will manage QIC's Australian equities trading desk, focussing on alpha generation. He specialises in facilitation, portfolio trading and derivatives. Claridge worked previously ...

Liquidnet trading breaks mould

... Singapore by the third quarter of 2007. The Australian office is jointly headed by Sam Macqueen, formerly head of equities trading at Schroders Investment Management Australia and Stephen Zilioli, who worked as equity sales trader at UBS and Merrill ...