PTS usage in Japan is projected to grow following a pending revision to the 5% tender-offer bid rule, but many brokerages have best execution policies that route orders to exchanges...
Currently, 20% of investment trust investors buy and sell investment trusts online. Investment trust investors who use only the face-to-face channel for their investment trust transactions include many highly IT-literate...
Japan's securitization market appears to have finally bottomed, but sustained recovery hinges largely on reduction in the cost of gathering and analyzing information. Achieving this aim will require innovative solutions...
With their assets under management showing signs of recovery, Asian hedge funds prefer to use full-service prime brokers that offer research and back-office capabilities and access to IPOs and...
In Asia, trade orders from foreign institutional investors have historically been routed to their destination market through Hong Kong or Singapore. Recently, with trading volume growing throughout Asia, brokers...
China's equity index futures market, launched in April 2010, is currently dominated by retail investors but it should evolve into more of an institutional market once regulations are eased...
Chinese securities firms have started to diversify their operations in response to 2010 earnings deterioration stemming from fierce price competition in the brokerage business. Against such a backdrop, investment...
The earthquake that struck offshore Tohoku on Friday, March 11 and ensuing mega-tsunami inflicted severe damage across much of eastern Japan. Most notably, the tsunami destroyed critical equipment at...
Public warehouses' monitoring of inventories stored on their premises adds substantial value to asset-based lending. The revival of long-dormant warehouse finance should prove to be a major catalyst for the warehouse...
China's securities industry landscape is expected to change dramatically over the next several years. Until a new order led by several internationally competitive securities firms emerges, China will delay...