MarketVoice News
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Market Surveillance
Two technology vendors, GlobalRisk and Interactive Data, are collaborating on a project to help the Commodity Futures Trading Commission improve its ability to assess and monitor market risk exposures in real time.
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Capital Optimization
Eurex Clearing in November launched its Prisma Margin Estimator, a free service that allows clearing members and their clients to estimate initial margins for futures, options and swaps.
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Market Access
Korea Exchange is seeking to enhance its appeal to international market participants by introducing several changes to its trading rules and technological infrastructure.
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Trading technology
Bloomberg Tradebook in December announced several upgrades to its multi-broker platform for trading futures.
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Dodd-Frank Fix
On Dec. 4, President Obama signed into law a transportation bill that includes a provision removing a barrier to the sharing of data on swap trading. The provision stripped away a requirement in Dodd-Frank that U.S.-based swap data repositories obtain a written indemnification agreement from overseas regulators seeking to access their data. This indemnification provision was intended to protect the confidentiality of the data, but proponents have warned that it effectively restricted foreign regulatory access to data.
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WeSeeHope and Futures for Kids
When Futures For Kids was set up by a group of individuals from the futures industry in London in 2008, the objective of the foundation was to help the industry raise funds for charitable causes that help improve the lives of disadvantaged children and young adults across the world.
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State of the Union
Happy New Year and welcome to the first issue of MarketVoice as a newly merged FIA.
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Cybersecurity: NFA Sets Standards
The National Futures Association, the U.S. futures industry’s self-regulatory organization, has drafted standards that all NFA members will need to apply in protecting themselves from the risk of unauthorized access or attacks on their information systems.
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CFTC Examines FCM Consolidation
Agricultural hedgers are worried about the dwindling number of futures commission merchants, particularly as financial regulations have called for more businesses to be centrally cleared.
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