US investment bank, Morgan Stanley, has appointed Kevin O’Reilly to run its China commodities at the turn of the year, reported Bloomberg this week.

UK bank, Standard Chartered, with its strong focus on emerging markets, has made a strategic move in Malaysia that will allow it to offer Shariah-compliant derivatives c

Abraham Merchant and Kenneth Kuhn, managing directors of Global Capital Investments, have launched the Iraq Fund. The fund will invest primarily in listed equities of the Iraq Stock Exchange and up to 20 per cent of its assets in private,

Liquidnet, an institutional investment community that enables secure and anonymous block trading of equities, has expanded its trading operations to include listed securities from Israel. Liquidnet will commence trading in this market on 1 November making it the first block

A strong end to 2012 saw Asia ex-Japan hedge funds deliver some solid results in what is sure to provide a welcome fillip to the region’s alternative funds industry. The Eurekahedge Asia ex-Japan Hedge Fund Index ended 2012 with returns

Singapore Exchange has investigated today’s delayed opening of the derivatives market and confirmed that it was not related either to market volumes or changes to the system.   The delay was caused by a system monitoring process which did not

Singapore Exchange’s (SGX) derivatives and commodities markets achieved several new record highs in both December and the full year. Securities market performance as measured by the Straits Times Index was up 20 per cent in 2012. As in most global

BNY Mellon continues to win new business, as its Q3 figures testify to: strong growth in assets under custody (+12 per cent) and assets under management (+9 per cent) helped it earn USD622mi