With the increasing demand for alternative trading platforms, SGX has recently tied up with Chi-X Global to set up Chi-East to cater to dark pool trading.

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It involved swimming in the same pool with the trading desks of the big commercial banks.

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With this, SGX will be Asia's first exchange-backed dark pool, which will complement exchange trading by reducing the market impact of large trades.

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For this reason alone, no one can do comparative analysis between dark pool trades, get a real understanding of dark pool volumes or even do their own trading cost analysis.

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The case for international deals still holds: with merged trading systems, investors would get cheaper access to a wider pool of shares.

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However, according to the complaint, Leighton did not disclose these trading losses and, instead, issued false statements to the pool participants regarding the profitability and value of their shares of the pool.

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