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  • Gold Market Benchmark

    ICE Benchmark Administration continues to adjust the process used to set the LBMA Gold Price, the revamped benchmark for daily gold prices.

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  • Common Platform

    Following its merger with Direct Edge, Bats Global Markets has consolidated all of its markets in the U.S. at one data center, the NY5 facility in New Jersey operated by Equinix.

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  • Fine-Tuning Dodd-Frank

    On April 30, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission approved for public comment a proposed rulemaking that would reduce certain reporting and recordkeeping requirements for end-users that transact in trade options, a term used by the CFTC to refer to physically settled over-the-counter options on commodities that are purchased by commercial end-users.

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  • Fine-Tuning Dodd-Frank

    On April 30, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission approved for public comment a proposed rulemaking that would reduce certain reporting and recordkeeping requirements for end-users that transact in trade options, a term used by the CFTC to refer to physically settled over-the-counter options on commodities that are purchased by commercial end-users.

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  • Liquidity Roadmap

    The London Metal Exchange continues to upgrade LMEselect, the exchange’s electronic trading platform, as part of a broader strategy to attract more financial institutions to its markets.

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  • Changing of the Guard

    LME Sells Stake in LCH.Clearnet

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  • Information Sharing

    Australian Prudential Regulation Authority Chairman Wayne Byres and Tim Massad, Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, signed a memorandum of understanding on April 13.

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  • Cap-and-Trade

    MGEX Targets California Carbon Market

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  • OTC Derivatives

    On March 31, FIA Asia and ASIFMA, a trade association representing international banks and brokers active in Asian markets, submitted a joint comment to the Monetary Authority of Singapore's consultation on proposed amendments to the Securities and Futures Act.

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  • Trade Analytics

    Traders scouting for relative value opportunities across fixed income futures, swaps and cash Treasuries now have access to an online application that taps into real-time data from CME Group and ICAP.

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