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NYSE Technologies adds SGX co-location for Asian investors
Market participants in Singapore can now co-locate at SGX to gain access to NYSE's SFTI Trading between different Asian markets and Europe is now easier, following a deal between the Singapore Exchange...
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RTS sets sights on Asia Pacific expansion
RTS chief executive Steffen Gemuenden will re-locate to Singapore in January RTS Realtime Systems has set out an ambitious plan to centre its technology business on growth opportunities in Asia...
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Singapore Exchange reaches out to Germany
Singapore: reaching out to international market participants The Singapore Exchange has stepped up its efforts to connect to international market participants, with a deal between itself and German...
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Singapore CLTX poaches Langley from UBS
Singapore’s Cleartrade Exchange has appointed Mark Langley as its new Asia business development director as it seeks to expand its presence in commodity futures. Langley was previously at UBS, where he...
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Barclays and HSBC offer Singapore stocks on LSE
Singapore-listed stocks can now be traded in London HSBC and Barclays have begun trading Singapore-listed stocks on the London Stock Exchange, using the LSE’s newly-created international board. The...
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Swift Innotribe names Singapore startup challenge finalists
The Singapore finalists will compete against New York and London at Sibos Dubai in September Swift’s innovation-focused spin-off Innotribe has announced the five Singapore finalists for its global...
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Singapore Exchange partners with Clearstream for Asian collateral service
The Singapore Exchange and Clearstream will target Asia’s need for collateral The Singapore Exchange and Luxembourg-based Clearstream are planning to launch a collateral management service that should...
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ICE acquires Singapore Mercantile Exchange and clearing house
ICE has established a presence in Asia via Singapore (pictured) with SMX IntercontinentalExchange is to acquire Singapore Mercantile Exchange, including the venue’s clearing house, in a deal that will...
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Collateral tops concerns at Singapore Securities Financing Conference Asia 2014
The Singapore Exchange and Clearstream have highlighted Asia’s need for collateral Sourcing the right collateral to cover global exposures has risen up the list of priorities for financial institutions...
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The rise of the Asian superbroker
Steve Grob is group strategy director at Fidessa As the global banks grapple with tides of regulation, fines, and a myriad of other post-crisis issues, local Asian institutions are tooling up and...
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Exporting payments excellence
The Singapore challenge Singapore is an advanced economy that employs a variety of clearing and settlement systems. It needed to transform its payments infrastructure to offer instant interbank...
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DBS Bank Singapore overhauls anti-crime tools
Singapore-based DBS has begun retooling its AML and anti-crime systems Singapore’ DBS Bank has begun a major overhaul of its financial crime prevention strategy, as the bank seeks to upgrade its...
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CLTX Singapore rolls out commodity futures platform
Singapore’s CLTX platform will be supported by Deutsche Borse’s infrastructure Singapore futures market Cleartrade Exchange has launched a new matching and trading platform, CLTX Trader, which will go...
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The Big Red Dot: a guide to Singapore
Sibos delegates are arriving in the city state of Singapore at a turning point in its history: 2015 marks the 50th anniversary of independence from Malaysia, but also the death of Lee Kuan Yew – prime...
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Singapore Exchange and EBS Market to build bridge between FX OTC and futures
Singapore’s SGX and EBS Market are targeting OTC business The Singapore Exchange is to launch foreign exchange block futures on ICAP’s EBS Market, in a move the two say will bridge the FX and futures...
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MIT on TRAC with OCBC Bank for trade finance
Maggie Cheong, OCBC Swiss vendor MIT (Micro-Informatique & Technologies) has signed a contract with OCBC Bank to support its commodity trade finance business with its TRAC (Trade Risk Active...
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DBS heads to cloud with Amazon Web Services
DBS plans to shift up to 50% of computer workload to Amazon’s AWS cloud within two years Singapore-based DBS Bank has signed an agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to use its cloud technology. The...
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Singapore start-ups soar with OCBC support
Samuel Tsien, OCBC OCBC Bank’s fintech accelerator programme, the Open Vault, will pilot tests with three start-ups – Fincast, BondIT and CogniCor. The tests involve wealth management and artificial...
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Hitachi and BTMU cheque mates for blockchain digitalisation
Singapore Hitachi and the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ (BTMU) have started proof of concept (PoC) testing for using blockchain in the digitalisation of cheques in Singapore. In this PoC testing,...
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Byte Academy partners with Standard Chartered and tech heavyweights for...
Singapore makes fintech talent flourish Byte Academy has unveiled its first international campus outside of New York with programmes in fintech, data science and Python full-stack development. The new...
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