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re: FIX to Korean Stock Exchange - issues, warnings..
Simon Leung / Salomon Smith Barney
17 Aug 2003 11:48PM ET

Dear Andrew,

There are many global brokers that offer STP for Korean instruments. In such cases, these brokers would have taken care of complexity on local exchange connectivity; and all you need is a FIX gateway for your order management system. One of the preferred way to build this FIX gateway is to talk to a FIX engine vendors whom will 1) sell you a off-the-shelf FIX engine; 2) may do the OMS/FIX integration.

On the other, if you want to connect directly to KSE, then there are a no. of issues:

1) You need to be a member of KSE to trade there
2) A good portion of these systems are provided by KOSCOM which provides mostly proprietory systems for local use.
3) Legal and compliance issues that you may problems trading direclty off-shore from the US.

Let me know if you have more questions.

Simon Leung
Citigroup Global Markets Asia Ltd.
simon.leung@citigroup.com

 > Andrew,
>
> For your vendor shopping, local/regional Asian vendors have limited routing platforms and they all tend to only provide access to their local markets in their local language. So you'll probably end up with a global vendor who has Asian capabilities so you'll be looking at higher costs.
>
> If you need to start trade soon, you may need to pay up to a vendor to get the front-end as well as connectivity to KSE executing brokers. If you have a little more time, then it's more sensible to buy a FIX engine and build the trading functionality yourself.
>
> Hope this helps...
>
> Grace
>
>
> > Hi All-
> > We are a small U.S. buy-side firm looking to trade stocks, options, and futures on the KSE.
> >
> > We have little formal electronic trading infrastructure in place, and we have a very aggressive timeframe to get trading.
> >
> > We are currently researching from the Buy v. Build perspective, trying to determine what would be the correct mix for us at this time.
> >
> > *** Any guidance to that end would be greatly appreciated!
> >
> >
> > thanks!
> > Andrew Freese
> > afreese@aviatorfund.com
> > (212) 471-3968
> >
> >
>


FIX to Korean Stock Exchange - issues, warnings..
Andrew Freese / Aviator Fund Management LLP   23 Jul 2003 11:06AM ET
re: FIX to Korean Stock Exchange - issues, warnings..
Grace Lin / Goldman Sachs (Asia) L.L.C.   24 Jul 2003 12:28AM ET
re: FIX to Korean Stock Exchange - issues, warnings..
Simon Leung / Salomon Smith Barney   17 Aug 2003 11:48PM ET