Articles by Wei-Shen Wong
Witad Awards 2018 Write-Ups: Legal/Compliance Professional of the Year—Jennifer Keser, Tradeweb Markets
Jennifer Keser, director of regulation and market structure at Tradeweb Markets, wins the legal/compliance professional of the year category, thanks to her work in preparing the firm, its stakeholders and its clients for the revised Markets in Financial…
Witad Awards 2018 Write-Ups: Rising Star (Vendor)—Hella Hoffmann, Thomson Reuters
Hella Hoffmann, data scientist at Thomson Reuters Labs, takes home this year’s rising star (vendor) award. Despite having only left university in October 2015, Hoffmann, who specializes in graph databases and data cleaning/anomaly detection, possesses…
Encompass Opens in Hong Kong to Support Growth in Asia
Hong Kong, China, Singapore and Japan driving demand for automated KYC solutions.
ASX Considers Blockchain for Fixed-Income Platform
The exchange sees it as a logical development opportunity to make business easier for its customers.
Bloomberg Unleashes 'Kungfu' on Chinese Dollar Bond Market
The data provider will continue developing new tools and will also be rolling out analytics tools for the offshore dollar Chinese credit market.
MarketAxess Banks on Asian Electronic Markets with BlackRock Partnership
Partnership with BlackRock will allow Aladdin client community to access new sources of liquidity in Asian credit markets.
Nasdaq, Sina Hail Data Deal as Step Towards Globalization of Chinese Investor Portfolios
Nasdaq looks to broaden distribution in China via Sina, then replicate the partnership in other Asia-Pacific markets.
Asia’s New Tigers: Exchanges Overhaul Aging Systems
Waters looks at major projects being rolled out in 2018 at exchanges in Japan, Australia, Hong Kong and Singapore.
Thai Stock Exchange Settles in for T+2
The exchange is looking to use technology to innovate its post-trade processes and introducing e-proxy and e-voting to benefit shareholders.
State Street Global Advisors Promotes James MacNevin to Head of APAC
MacNevin will oversee the firm’s APAC business and is based in Sydney, Australia.
BSO Upgrades Singapore-Hong Kong Network
Electronic market makers will be able to trade derivatives on HKEx faster than previously possible.
Smartkarma Debuts Full Suite of Mifid II-Compliant Research Tools
Premium Service users will have access to analyst calls, financial modeling and bespoke research.
ASX to Upgrade Secondary Datacenter
Upgrading ASX’s backup datacenter facility will cost the exchange up to A$25 million ($19.8 million) in capital expenditure.
UPDATE: AxiomSL Drives Industry Collaboration On Open Taxonomy for MAS 610
AxiomSL has convened an industry group to help devise a taxonomy that will simplify compliance reporting for the revised Monetary Authority of Singapore 601 update.
Cusip Enhances New Issue Alert Service
The upgraded service includes information on new issues as well as changes to existing Cusip records.
Malaysia and Singapore to Establish Trading Link
The exchanges and central banks of both countries will iron out details in the coming months for it to be operational by year-end.
Delta Data Debuts FundBlast Corporate Actions Portal
FundBlast will provide a standardized, real-time means of communication that aims to mitigate risk, streamline operations and slash email notification volumes.
Ullink Extends Partnership with LiquidMetrix for Best Execution
New tool aims to enhance connectivity and trading infrastructure to achieve delivery of best execution services.
GLEIF and Swift Launch BIC-to-LEI Relationship File
Open-source model will streamline entity verification processes and reduce data management costs.
Metamako, Redline Ally for Low-Latency Data
The agreement will provide mutual clients with access to normalized market data at the lowest possible network latency for a wide range of asset classes.
EDI Launches Option Analytics Service
The service provides daily analytics and reference data for listed options, as well as stock borrowing rates to support strategy testing and financing activities.
SmartTrade Launches Blockchain Post-Trade Solution
Hosted clients can subscribe to the global service and access it through an open API.
T. Rowe Price Taps Former BlackRock Strategist for APAC Strategy Role
Shen will focus on creating solutions for institutional investors in the Asia-Pacific region.
Roger Worthington to Head AxiomSL’s New Product Ops Team
Worthington has more than two decades’ experience building and managing shared infrastructure.