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November
Equity index trading in East Asia is booming. Following in the footsteps of the Kospi 200 Index, the most active exchange traded derivatives contract in the world by volume, exchanges across the region are harnessing the growth of the local retail market and opening up to foreign investors.
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September
Commodity trading in East Asia has been heralded as an almost unstoppable juggernaut. However, in 2011 commodity futures and options markets in the region look set to suffer their first year-on-year decline. Has the unthinkable happened and the market was a bubble that has now burst? Colin Packham discovers that Asia’s commodity success is far from over, but the incredible speed of growth may be checked by a slowdown in China.
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July
China will open up its derivatives markets to foreign investors but it will take time and the focus will be on creating a secure environment for traders, a leading Chinese regulator said this month.
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Tadashi Ezaki, president and chief executive of the Tokyo Commodities Exchange, has called on the Japanese government to remove the barriers to exchange mergers.
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Napoleon famously described China as a “sleeping giant”, warning that once she wakes, “she will shake the world”. In terms of the derivatives industry, China is still slumbering but the global industry is eagerly awaiting her awakening.
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June
Japan was home to the first futures exchange market and once among the world’s leading venues, but fortunes have turned against the once great powerhouse. Hopes of a revival were raised last year by the new government only to be dashed by the devastating tsunami on March 11. Colin Packham looks at how Japan lost its crown, whether Japan is any closer to embracing exchange consolidation, resolving its tax issues and how the Tsunami has impacted on work to restore its fortunes.
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May
The Hong Kong Mercantile Exchange went live on May 18, becoming the latest new bourse to open in Asia.
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Singapore has long been an Asian centre for derivatives trading. The market has not grown as fast as its backers had hoped, but remains an open and welcoming way into Asia for foreign capital. With fresh leadership at the Singapore Exchange and two other new markets eager for business, the state is rich with new initiatives to promote derivatives trading. William Mitting reports.
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April
Permission has been granted by the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission for the Hong Kong Mercantile Exchange to start operating automated trading services on May 18 that the exchange said would “link China with the rest of the world”.
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First quarter profit at Bursa Malaysia Berhad has risen 44% year-on-year to RM40.5m (£8.2m) driven in part by an upturn in derivatives trading.
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Newedge and Orc Software have agreed to let US-based customers of the software vendor trade on Asian derivatives markets through the world’s largest futures brokerage.
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February
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Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing will launch an over-the-counter derivatives clearing house in late 2012, subject to regulatory approval.
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The potential of India’s derivatives market has long been clear. But in 2010 it grabbed the world’s attention. Volume soared, new products began trading and new exchanges came online. The way ahead is hard to predict – regulators hold most of the cards. As Mareen Goebel reports, the energy in the market is palpable; the challenge will be to let it express itself safely.
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The Singapore Exchange’s FTSE Xinhua China A50 future has soared in popularity over the past four months and could become “absolutely huge”, according to one head of futures in Singapore.
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Martin Wheatley, chief executive of the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission, will leave his position when his contract expires in the summer.