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Japanese buyside traders seek defence against HFT

After years of stagnation, Japan’s equity market is booming and alternative trading system providers are flocking in. Buyside traders now hope that the stranglehold...

Cboe Japan equities business closes amid market share decline

Cboe is shuttering its Japan equities business, including its proprietary trading system and block trading system Cboe BIDS Japan. Volumes at Cboe BIDS Japan collapsed...

Leading Japan’s trading transformation

After years of stagnation and insularity, Japan’s buyside is now catching up fast. At Nomura Asset Management, Mai Tanaka and her team are helping...

Surfing Japan’s equity trading boom

Japan’s buyside giants are learning to use algos for equity execution but amid information leakage and HFT concerns, the path to adopting the new...

Jefferies and SMBC to launch joint Japan equities venture

A new memorandum of understanding (MoU) states the Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) Group’s and Jefferies’ intentions to combine their Japanese equities and equity...