Nasdaq and NYSE Get Go-Ahead to Open Offices in China
Nasdaq Stock Market has been granted approval to open an office in Beijing, just weeks after the Chinese Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) gave the New…
Waters Exclusive: Asia Report
Despite connectivity issues, regulatory hurdles and liquidity barriers, traders are eager to try out algorithms. Electronic trading and the use of algorithms in Asian markets…
Hedge Funds: Ready, Set …
Emerging markets pose regulatory obstacles and provide fewer trading options but offer the biggest opportunities. When Lou Gerken first started investing in Asia in the…
Is China Too Hot to Handle?
The Chinese government takes steps to put a lid on an overheated stock market. New Chinese investors are rushing into the stock market like buyers…
Competition Looms
Exchanges and regulators must brace for increased volumes as ATSes and crossing networks pour in resources, but governments are likely to remain protective. Alternative trading…
Don't bet it all on China
Article first appeared in FDM. What’s next for China? Best case, worse case and status quo scenarios are almost equally plausible. Here are eight questions…
Hidden Dragon
For five years, starting in 2001, the Chinese stock market headed down. Investors pulled out their money; brokerages went bankrupt. Then the Chinese government instituted…
Asia’s Alternatives
In many respects, Asia has been following the U.S. and European lead on matters of market structure and regulation as Asian laws and technologies steadily…
Build-Operate-Transfer Plan Brings Outsourced Jobs In
Article originally published in Insurance Networking News. Patrick Snowball, executive director of Aviva UK, flew down to Mumbai, India in February to accept an award…
Feeding the news appetite with RSS
Every day, Alex Dai, one of my full time employees, spends about an hour an a half looking for stories for the next day’s news…
War journalism
Note: This blog post also ran in the Society of Professional Journalism’s “Journalism and the World” blog. Click here to see the original post. I’ll…
How to become a foreign correspondent
I’ve answered it a lot as well (one of these answers is posted here: http://maria.trombly.com/FAQ.htm#correspondent). But my perspective on this has changed over time as…
Greetings from Shanghai, China
Dan Kubiske, chair of the SPJ’s International Journalism Committee, suggested that I blog about my experiences running a bureau out here in Shanghai, so this…
Banking on IT in China
SHANGHAI — In the first 10 months of 2006, Chinese regulators uncovered 776 banking crimes, including 205 cases involving more than 1 million yuan ($125,000…
SunGard Buys Chinese Trading Systems Supplier Fudan Kingstar
In a sign that the maturing of the Chinese financial markets is creating new opportunities for Western technology suppliers, SunGard Data Systems of Wayne, Pa.…
NYSE, 3 Others Buying Stakes in India Exchange; SGX in the Wings
The parent of the New York Stock Exchange and three other investors said last week that they will each buy 5 percent, $115 million equity…
Agricultural Bank of China Remains a Risky Play
Agricultural Bank of China (ABC) is likely to have a greater probability of making future non-performing loans (NPLs) than China’s other big banks, experts say.…
Foreign Broker Ban
From its founding on Dec. 25, 1925 as a spin-off of Osaka Nomura Bank Co., Nomura Securities grew into one of the giants of Japanese…
Chinese Carriers Expect Onslaught
Article originally published in Insurance Networking News. Chinese insurance companies were bracing for an onslaught by global competitors last month when a commitment to the…
Creative Recruiting
Four years ago, CEO John Cestar took a novel approach to increasing the skill levels at Freeborders, a small outsourcing provider that operates in China.…
Outsourcing in China
About two years ago, Kevin Miller needed a little help supporting legacy applications and developing new software for large automotive manufacturers. He decided to conduct…
Back-End Authentication Moves to Forefront
User authentication has been getting a lot of attention lately, what with lingering threats of identity theft, a U.S. regulatory initiative to have banks and…
Seagate Award
U.S.-based hard disk drive maker Seagate Technology International today won the prestigious Singapore Manufacturing Excellence Award. The award, presented by Singapore’s Economic Development Board in…
Robots to China
Though its purchasing power may be on the wane, the automotive industry is still the primary buyer of robotics products. With China’s automotive sector showing…
Brokers on Hold
The China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) has said that it will issue no new licenses to brokerages set up as joint ventures with foreign firms…
Brokers vs. Exchanges
The U.S. pattern of stock-exchange consolidation, which has recently spawned a flurry of new investments by market participants in alternative or smaller trading venues, is…
‘Homesourcing’ A Domestic Alternative
Article originally published in Insurance Networking News. There are three main reasons why it’s cheaper to outsource work to WillowCSN Inc. than to do it…
India Tightens Security
Article originally published in Insurance Networking News. Late spring 2005, the world learned that a crime ring that included call center employees of an Indian…
Bridging the Chinese Skills Gap
Originally published in Computerworld. Hankscraft Inc. has been making industrial motors and mechanized pumps for more than 50 years in Reedsburg, Wis. The company came…
Language Barriers
Originally published in Computerworld. Among the various sourcing peculiarities and problems specific to China is regionalism, says Pieter Tsiknas, director of SearchBank’s Beijing office. Read…