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SGX’s CEO Talks With John Lothian News
John Lothian News interviewed Singapore Exchange CEO Loh Boon Chye over Zoom in Singapore after the FIA Boca-V conference. Boon Chye talked about SGX, its new products and marketing during the pandemic.
FIA Asia-V: CCP Resilience Does Not Dissuade Industry From Self Assessment
Jackie Mesa, who is FIA’s COO and Senior VP of Global Policy, moderated Asia-V’s panel, "The CCP Perspective on the Asia-Pacific Clearing Environment." Her panelists were Kate Birchall from LCH, Agnes Koh, from Singapore Exchange, Vikram Kothari from NSE Clearing...
SGX Execs See Return to Macro Trades; COVID-Led Push Toward Digitalization
In a press briefing, Singapore Exchange Limited (SGX) CEO Loh Boon Chye Thursday said the pandemic has created both challenges and extreme market moves, and the resulting economic damages are just now beginning to unfold. However, since Asia was pushed into the COVID...
Loh Boon Chye: Singapore Exchange Expands as Asia Market Grows
Since FIA Boca didn’t take place this March, John Lothian News posed our questions to Loh Boon Chye, the CEO of SGX, from afar, and he responded in this video shot in mid-March.
The Spread: Crash and Burn
This week on The Spread: the coronavirus causes crashes not seen since 2008, derivatives trading hits record volumes for major exchanges, Robinhood has yet another outage, and the OCC adds two clearing-side veterans to its board of directors.
CFTC agrees to rein in rules for overseas clearing houses
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Italian market chaos; Vix-mageddon revisited
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Singapore, India exchanges ‘abandoning trade link talks’
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Looking for Continued Growth, SGX Goes West
Singapore Exchange has had a good stretch of late. The exchange’s fiscal first quarter results were reported on October 25, showing approximately $149 million in revenues, a 7 percent year-over-year increase, and net profits of $66 million, a 9 percent year-over-year...
Singapore bourse offers to link up with Chinese futures trading venture; Twitter Teams Up With Bloomberg for Streaming News; Calypso and R3 successfully test FX trade matching on Corda DLT platform
First Read Trading Technologies Goes Big with TT Desktop Anthony Malakian - WatersTechnology TT CEO Rick Lane talks with Waters about the vendor's new desktop offering, which can accommodate 18 monitors, if not more. Prior to this release, the TT platform was only...
2016 Exchange CEO Series: SGX’s Boon Chye Expanding With New Products, New Platform in 2016
Loh Boon Chye took over the Singapore Exchange CEO post in July 2015 with a focus on growing the overall business in derivatives, clearing and equities. But he faces headwinds across the asset classes as China's economy slows. Boon Chye, however, believes the exchange...
Sweet 16: The Tops for 2016
At last fall's FIA Expo Chicago, John Lothian News partnered with Cinnober Financial Technology to bring you industry conversations, where we conduct short interviews with industry participants on the important topics facing the...
New Captain: SGX’s Boon Chye Navigates Tough Asian Markets
Loh Boon Chye took the reins as CEO of Singapore Exchanges (SGX) in July. A former SGX board member and Bank of America Merrill Lynch's deputy president and head of global markets in Asia Pacific, he said there is much opportunity for the exchange to grow, and perhaps...
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