Thanks for clear clarification.It very clear.

I wonder is it easy for us to open account, transfer fund etc.

Some of my client who use IBKR also inquiry about Tradestation, i am checkout on it.

Totally understand. I’m just surveying and checking out options for business purposes as well.
Looking to broaden the range of brokers beyond just IBKR.

May i know how is the Rakuten broker model working in Malaysia ?

Ar ,thanks for your advise, however I am not ready to be broker yet.
We are tech vendor that provide integration service or develop automation tools, mainly for IBKR,
and some client always inquiry about other broker especially Tradestation etc.
Therefore i exploring the integration work with it.

Yeah, previously, some clients planned to provide brokerage solutions,
thats relying on them to work things out since it involves regulatory compliance.

newbie here, does ibkr impose any fee for SG and HK stock dividend disbursement?  I am using Hlebroking and it is changing me sgd8 for each dividend disbursement.

Wow prompt reply!  I assume there is a trust account where ibkr will park our dividend in each currency right?

trust account is a account that we bank in our fund bank into a brokerage to buy stock and brokerage transfer dividend into that account

got some diff between trust and custody... usually trust implies got 3rd party oversight...

he just wanna know if the div is kept in a trust acc...

imho... its moot, as you send them $$$$ to buy stocks and they manage it via custodian acc, no reason $ from div needed to be managed via trust acc...

for all local brokerage for bursa, it is called trust account, don't you guys have it also?

no time to really check but looks like "Malaysian Ringgit-denominated Equities and ETFs" no longer have "Coming Soon" anymore. anyone wanna investigate? https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/tradi...sa-malaysia.php

cc TOS

More than one Taiwanese friend has told me, only half in jest, that this male-dominated workforce “only know how to talk to computers” and certainly not to the opposite sex. Only 13 per cent of engineers in all of Taiwan are women, according to a 2020 survey by the Chinese Institute of Engineers.

As a result, these male engineers in Hsinchu are often labelled as zhai nan, or nerdy homebodies who are obsessed with technology to the detriment of their social skills.

More than one Taiwanese friend has told me, only half in jest, that this male-dominated workforce “only know how to talk to computers” and certainly not to the opposite sex. Only 13 per cent of engineers in all of Taiwan are women, according to a 2020 survey by the Chinese Institute of Engineers.

As a result, these male engineers in Hsinchu are often labelled as zhai nan, or nerdy homebodies who are obsessed with technology to the detriment of their social skills.

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Mr Jay Tsai, an engineer at leading smartphone chipset supplier MediaTek, said tech companies in the industrial park often provide comprehensive childcare services and other family-related benefits.

These companies also host regular matchmaking and speed dating events, to pave the way for its single engineers to meet employees from other departments or industries in Hsinchu, such as finance and education.

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The generally higher incomes of these engineers make them attractive to those seeking to move up the social ladder.

According to an August 2024 survey by popular jobs portal Yes123, the No. 1 profession that Taiwanese women hope their future husbands will be in is tech engineering, ahead of finance and medicine.

“There is the idea that Hsinchu professionals can offer a comfortable and stable way of life, and it’s true that workers at the science park earn more,” said Mr James Liao, 48, who used to be a financial manager in MediaTek.

“But this also comes at a cost – these employees work many, many hours, which means that their families might not get to spend much time with them,” said Mr Liao, who is now the chief executive of healthcare company Taichan.

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