Search

MarketVoice News

  • Exchange Fee Management

    CME Group and Duco Technologies, a global fintech provider, announced in March an agreement designed to help clearing and trading firms manage fee control processes.

    CONTINUE READING
  • Cultivating Fintech: Deutsche Boerse Invites Startups to Frankfurt

    <div class="entity entity-paragraphs-item paragraphs-item-html-content" about typeof> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-name-txt-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"></div></div></div>

    CONTINUE READING
  • Options Connectivity

    Users of Bloomberg’s Execution Management System can now send, execute and confirm orders electronically with CBOE floor brokers and other users of CBOE’s PULSe trader workstation.

    CONTINUE READING
  • Mandatory Clearing in Mexico

    On March 30, Mexico’s central bank granted CME Clearing recognition as a foreign central counterparty, paving the way for Mexican market participants to clear interest rate swaps through CME Clearing.

    CONTINUE READING
  • Gallery - BOCA 2015

    8th Annual FIA Europe International Derivatives Expo - Delegates network at the International Exchanges Luncheon.

    CONTINUE READING
  • Gallery - FIA Rings Closing Bell at New York Stock Exchange to Celebrate Global Merger

    FIA leadership joined president and CEO Walt Lukken on Jan. 29 to celebrate FIA’s recent merger by ringing the closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange.

    CONTINUE READING
  • Insight: Oil Prices: A Study in Hedging Against Unpredictable Prices

    Watching oil prices crash below $30 a barrel is a sobering lesson in the limits of our ability to predict the future. I was at the helm of the CFTC in 2008 when the price of oil topped $145 a barrel. At the time, certain members of the “Peak Oil” crowd were predicting $200 per barrel by that year’s end. As recently as last year, the U.S. Energy Information Administration forecast that Brent crude oil prices would average $58 per barrel in 2015 and $75 per barrel in 2016. EIA is now predicting Brent prices will average $38 per barrel in 2016, almost 50% lower than last year’s forecast. 

    CONTINUE READING
  • EU Regulatory Report Card: End-Users Decry Cumulative Impact of Regulation

    In the eight years since the financial crisis, the derivatives industry has been playing a game of slow motion table tennis as it reacts to the swathe of new rules that regulators and politicians around the world have been batting its way in a bid to prevent a recurrence.

    CONTINUE READING
  • MAC Swaps: An Analysis of Trading Trends in 2015

    Several years ago a group of buy-side firms came together in an effort to lead the interest rate swap market towards greater standardization of contract terms.

    CONTINUE READING
  • Swap Futures

    Eris Exchange has undertaken a massive expansion of its interest rate swap futures, doubling the range of maturities available and introducing a new set of forward-starting contracts.

    CONTINUE READING