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Nomura, the pre-eminent Asia-based investment bank, this week announced the launch of its Asian Electronic Trading platform, providing clients with Direct Market Access ("DMA") and Algorithms via its "ModelEx" platform connecting to equity markets in Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore and Australia. ModelEx is Nomura's algorithmic trading platform which allows clients to electronically access its suite of automated trading strategies.
The firm expects to launch the platform in India, Taiwan and Korea by April 2009.
Nomura is unique in the electronic trading services (ETS) business for its award winning quantitative analytics and risk models, which provide pre- and post-trade analytics, market microstructure and quantitative research to help clients generate new and innovative trading ideas.
The new ETS team combines the best electronic trading capabilities of the Lehman Brothers acquisition, including the quantitative analytics team, developers of the algorithms, information technology and operations personnel, with Nomura's strong client relationships and dominance in Japan.
Previously, Nomura has been active in the Japan ETS market in both DMA and Direct-Strategy-Access (DSA), utilizing its "Experts" algorithmic platform. The current ETS team, led by Managing Director Rob Laible, has maintained the Nomura platform while at the same time building-out the pan-Asian capabilities of ModelEx in order to ensure seamless execution and provide superior analysis and a competitive edge for its clients.
"Nomura is committed to establishing a world-class suite of electronic trading products for its customers globally, and we've been very focused over the last few months on re-establishing a market-leading platform in Asia," said Rob Laible, Head of Nomura Electronic Trading Services in Asia. "We are well-positioned to offer our long-only clients, hedge funds, pension funds, and other institutional investors value-added and customized trading solutions and execution services."
Nomura's Asia-Pacific Equities division delivers the full resources of a multi-product execution platform to its clients globally. Committed to a state-of-the art risk management platform and market-leading research coverage and insight, Nomura provides its clients with a full-service equity broker offering, including structured and flow derivatives sales and trading, cash sales and trading, program and electronic sales and trading, quantitative advisory/analytics, structured derivatives and prime services.
