Chief Executive Officer
Singapore Exchange
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Thinking small is not one of Magnus Böckers faults. In June 2010, six months after the former Nasdaq OMX Group president became Singapore Exchange CEO, he launched a $250 million initiative to make SGX the worlds fastest trading venue. In October he agreed to an $8.9 billion merger of his company with Australias ASX. Combined, they would have been the biggest Asia-Pacific exchange and No. 5 in the world, but the deal was shot down in April when Australian Treasurer Wayne Swan ruled that it was not in his countrys interest. Böcker, 49, now vows to pursue other forms of cooperation with ASX along the lines of SGXs many alliances and partnerships. Recent examples include the introduction of contracts jointly developed with the London Metal Exchange; an arrangement to make Nasdaq OMX investor relations tools available to SGX-listed companies; and an electronic trading link with exchanges in Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand planned for late this year. Meanwhile, the ultra-high-speed trading engine SGX Reach, with order response time below 90 microseconds, is on plan for completion in August, says Böcker, who was the technology architect of Swedens OMX and headed that company before Nasdaq bought it in 2008.
Singapore Exchange
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Thinking small is not one of Magnus Böckers faults. In June 2010, six months after the former Nasdaq OMX Group president became Singapore Exchange CEO, he launched a $250 million initiative to make SGX the worlds fastest trading venue. In October he agreed to an $8.9 billion merger of his company with Australias ASX. Combined, they would have been the biggest Asia-Pacific exchange and No. 5 in the world, but the deal was shot down in April when Australian Treasurer Wayne Swan ruled that it was not in his countrys interest. Böcker, 49, now vows to pursue other forms of cooperation with ASX along the lines of SGXs many alliances and partnerships. Recent examples include the introduction of contracts jointly developed with the London Metal Exchange; an arrangement to make Nasdaq OMX investor relations tools available to SGX-listed companies; and an electronic trading link with exchanges in Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand planned for late this year. Meanwhile, the ultra-high-speed trading engine SGX Reach, with order response time below 90 microseconds, is on plan for completion in August, says Böcker, who was the technology architect of Swedens OMX and headed that company before Nasdaq bought it in 2008.