THE Hong Kong stock exchange's $100-million automated trading and order-matching system (AMS) could be improved, chief executive Paul Chow Man-yui has conceded.
''The system is now performing satisfactorily, although there's still room for improvement in some areas,'' Mr Chow said yesterday.
The exchange will seek to improve three aspects of the system: speed of response, screen size and screen format.
''We've already consulted brokers' opinions on the system. We'll examine the problems,'' he said.
On screen size, Mr Chow said some brokers found them too small.
''Considering we have about 1,000 brokers in the trading hall, it's difficult to introduce longer screens, but we'll see if we can introduce bigger screens which do not take up more [horizontal] space,'' he said.