Chi - X Global may well succeed the bet to be at the "crossing" between scholarships of yesterday and today and scholarship. This is the meaning of the name ce derived from the Greek letter in the form of "x". Within four years, the designer of electronic negotiation platforms came to print its brand on three continents who rely for financial markets: America, Europe and the Asia-Pacific. In Europe, with Chi - X Europe. in America, with Chi - X Canada; in the Asia-Pacific, with soon Chi - X East, Chi - X Japan and Chi - X Australia. All these entities respond to a request, a more efficient technology and less high prices for stock transactions.
By positioning itself firmly on the segment of trade in securities, Chi - X Global, a subsidiary 100 of agency brokerage Instinet, itself a subsidiary of the Japanese Bank Nomura, took advantage of the progressive liberalization of the market sector in all countries where it has managed to establish themselves. In Europe, it is the directive on markets in financial instruments (MIF) which opened him the way. Introduced November 1 2007, it broke the monopolies of historical Awards, such as the transatlantic operator Nyse Euronext, parent company of the Paris stock exchange.

Technological advances
Aged just three years, Chi - X Europe climbed to the forefront of alternative negotiations or MTF platforms and captures up to a quarter of the volume of activities at the Pan-European level, according to figures of OrangeLFA. At the other end of the globe, Chi - X Australia has, on the other hand, benefited from very recent liberalisation of the market sector on the Australian continent. Its launch is scheduled for October. More to the North, Chi - X East will see the day in June in a joint venture of type "dark pool" created with Singapore Stock Exchange, and will provide its users exchanging blocks of any confidentiality until their titles. Chi - X Japan, finally, should make its debut at the end of the summer. "We are exploring opportunities in Hong Kong and South Korea, explains Mark Howarth, Managing Director of Chi - X Global, in a telephone interview. But we have no specific plans for the time being.
The market infrastructure provider has also benefited from the recent technological advances that allow to split orders and send them at very high speed. This "high-frequency trading" gives rise to a race between the different levels of market, which include number of investment banks. They control more than half of the capital of Chi - X Europe, Instinet retaining a significant part but held confidential.
Mark Howarth wants to see these stockholding recur elsewhere. "We expect that the situation is evolving in a similar sense, he said." We encourage the participants in the market to take part in our activity. "The question now is whether if the fumes of Chi - X Global limited to trade in securities, in all their forms, or if they skip the step to take care also of the introductions on the stock exchange, remaining the preserve of the incumbent operators. This does not appear in their intentions for the moment.