Five years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, central clearing services are appearing for over-the-counter derivatives in Asia Pacific, but challenges remain.
There is growing interest among regulators and exchanges in Asia in the introduction of national tri-party collateral platforms to mitigate against counterparty credit risk.
Australia’s securities regulator has fined the agency broker for failing to reject or report stock manipulation by a high-frequency trader that had the potential to damage market efficiency.
Contrary to comments by the ASX chief, industry players say dark pool trading has not grown at the expense of lit-market volume, nor does it distort prices.
Australia's move to charge HFT participants based on the number of messages they send to the exchange is self-defeating, but may be copied, warns Deutsche Bank.