{"id":1225,"date":"2003-09-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-09-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"bloomberg-tradebook-becomes-hong-kongs-first-automated-trading-service-first-ats-authorized-by-securities-and-futures-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2003\/bloomberg-tradebook-becomes-hong-kongs-first-automated-trading-service-first-ats-authorized-by-securities-and-futures-commission.html","title":{"rendered":"Bloomberg Tradebook Becomes Hong Kong&#8217;s First Automated Trading Service First ATS Authorized by Securities and Futures Commission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;body.content&gt; &lt;block&gt; &lt;p&gt;HONG KONG, Sept. 29 \/PRNewswire\/ &#8212; Bloomberg Tradebook Hong Kong Ltd (&#8220;Bloomberg Tradebook Hong Kong&#8221;) is pleased to announce that it is authorized asHong Kong&#8217;s first Automated Trading Services (&#8220;ATS&#8221;) platform under Part III of the Securities and Futures Ordinance (&#8220;SFO&#8221;) by the Securities and Futures Commission (&#8220;SFC&#8221;) today.&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&#8221;With the authorization of Bloomberg Tradebook Hong Kong as an ATS, BLOOMBERG TRADEBOOK serves to fill the market needs and provides a complete global solution to sophisticated investors:including an integrated trading platform, enabling innovative trading tools, trading anonymity, added liquidity, advanced trading capabilities and sophisticated algorithms,&#8221; stated Kevin Foley, ChiefExecutive Officer of Bloomberg Tradebook LLC (&#8220;BLOOMBERG TRADEBOOK&#8221;) and Executive Director of Bloomberg Tradebook Hong Kong.&lt;\/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Bloomberg Tradebook Hong Kong is a wholly ownedsubsidiary of BLOOMBERG TRADEBOOK, member of NASD\/SIPC. BLOOMBERG TRADEBOOK is a leading global ATS used by institutional traders, broker-dealers, hedge fund managers, market makers and portfoliomanagers to trade. Since established in 1996, BLOOMBERG TRADEBOOK has become a leading electronic consolidator of global liquidity, offering its global customer base trading on 65 exchanges in 54countries with services via six offices on three continents.&lt;\/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Mr. Foley further commends SFC&#8217;s professionalism and effectiveness in vetting and considering ATS applications underthe SFO enacted earlier this year. &#8220;We have confidence in Hong Kong&#8217;s continuing role as a leading international financial center. Bringing healthy competition further adds efficiencies to themarket.&#8221;&lt;\/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Bloomberg Tradebook Hong Kong is also approved by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority as a money broker &#8212; offering electronic trading in foreign exchange products viaPowerMatch.&lt;\/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Bloomberg Tradebook Hong Kong has a consultative sales force to guide customers through the electronic trading world; it also offers 24\/7 customer support at852-2977-6000.&lt;\/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;For more information about this press release, please contact Mr. Alistair Duff at 852-2977-6350 or &lt;virtloc idsrc=&#8221;dummy&#8221;value=&#8221;dummy&#8221;&gt;aduff@bloomberg.net&lt;\/virtloc&gt;. BLOOMBERG TRADEBOOK&#8217;s website: &lt;a&gt;http:\/\/www.bloombergtradebook.com\/&lt;\/a&gt;. Chris Taylor, 212-318-2660 &lt;virtloc idsrc=&#8221;dummy&#8221;value=&#8221;dummy&#8221;&gt;taylorc@bloomberg.net&lt;\/virtloc&gt;.&lt;\/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;(R) All rights reserved &#8212; Bloomberg LP (&#8220;Bloomberg&#8221;). The BLOOMBERG TRADEBOOK system is only available toprofessional\/qualified\/institutional investors and in countries and markets where the necessary clearances have been obtained. The BLOOMBERG TRADEBOOK system is not available to private investors.&lt;\/p&gt; &lt;datasource&gt;Bloomberg Tradebook Hong Kong Ltd&lt;\/datasource&gt; &lt;\/block&gt; &lt;block class=&#8221;contact&#8221;&gt; &lt;p&gt;CONTACT: Alistair Duff, +1-852-2977-6350, &lt;virtlocidsrc=&#8221;dummy&#8221; value=&#8221;dummy&#8221;&gt;aduff@bloomberg.net&lt;\/virtloc&gt;, or Chris&lt;br\/&gt;Taylor, +1-212-318-2660, &lt;virtloc idsrc=&#8221;dummy&#8221; value=&#8221;dummy&#8221;&gt;taylorc@bloomberg.net&lt;\/virtloc&gt;, bothof Bloomberg&lt;\/p&gt; &lt;\/block&gt; &lt;block class=&#8221;website&#8221;&gt; &lt;p&gt;Web site: &lt;a&gt;http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/&lt;\/a&gt;&lt;br\/&gt;&lt;a&gt;http:\/\/www.bloombergtradebook.com\/&lt;\/a&gt;&lt;\/p&gt; &lt;\/block&gt; &lt;\/body.content&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;body.content&gt; &lt;block&gt; &lt;p&gt;HONG KONG, Sept. 29 \/PRNewswire\/ &#8212; Bloomberg Tradebook Hong Kong Ltd (&#8220;Bloomberg Tradebook Hong Kong&#8221;) is pleased to announce that it is authorized asHong Kong&#8217;s first Automated Trading Services (&#8220;ATS&#8221;) platform under Part III of the Securities and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedgeco-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}