Smaller, cheaper, faster: Trading Asian equities

The advent of electronic trading has multiple causes, of which two stand out: the reality on the ground in Asia-Pacific of poor liquidity, and growing sophistication on the buy-side. This is spurring the development of alternative trading venues, changing the way people trade, impacting how exchanges operate, and ultimately improving the liquidity conditions that led to the electronic revolution in the first place, according to “Smaller, cheaper, faster”, a new report on trading A…