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...
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...
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.
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.
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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...
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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...
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...
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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The Intercontinental Exchange Group had a record 2014, but for CEO Jeff Sprecher "boy, it was a chaotic year." ICE posted revenues of $3.01 billion last year from transaction and clearing fees, as it consolidated operations from the 2013 NYSE Euronext acquisition,...
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Observations & Insight Sarah Ponczek of Bloomberg News shared on Twitter that 32 million call options traded yesterday, the second most on record, only behind a day last November. Lead Stories Retail Traders Are Piling Into Viral Options Calls at All-Time High...
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