Facilitation on the rise

This is an excerpt from "Smaller, cheaper, faster: Trading Asian equities", a supplement to AsianInvestor magazine's April edition. Bulge-bracket firms are stepping up facilitation of equities trading in Asia-Pacific, in response to more demand from the buy side, according to numerous brokerage executives. This trend goes hand in hand with the development of electronic trading. It is the flip side to the eternal struggle in Asia to find liquidity and trade blocks without disturbing th…