As the top tier of exchanges worldwide vie with alternative trading venues and pursue strategies of acquisition, partnerships and technology sales to become truly global businesses, the Asia-Pacific region is shaping up to be a key battleground in 2010.
But as well as following Western markets in embracing high-frequency and algorithmic trading and focusing on latency reduction, incumbent exchanges in Asia-Pacific are forging their own path and finding ways to innovate in their own markets and attract more liquidity.
