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OCC returns $110 million to exchanges after SEC rejects capital plan
The Options Clearing Corporation, the Chicago-based clearinghouse, will return $110 million of the $150 million contributed by its shareholder exchanges after its capital plan was rejected by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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The electronification of interest rate swap trading
Matthew Scott is head of global rates, securitized assets and currency trading on the U.S. taxable bond trading desk at AllianceBernstein, an investment management firm with more than $500 billion in assets under management. He has been trading interest rate swaps for 13 years and has seen tremendous changes in his business, especially since the financial crisis. A large part of the changes came about as the result of the regulatory response to the crisis and the requirement that most swap trades be cleared.
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Tying the knot: New directions in capital markets M&A
Market infrastructure is hot again.
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CEO Insight: Energy boom shows the power of global markets
A recent news article caught my attention and highlighted the power of our markets to change the human condition. While a U.S. story, it has implications for all markets globally. A few months ago buried in the business section of the newspaper read a headline—the U.S. had become the world’s largest producer of crude oil and a net exporter of petroleum for the first time in 75 years, thanks to an unprecedented boom in oil production over the last decade.
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People News: February/March 2019
Jean-François Grégoire, Frank Drouet, Mel Gunewardena, Andrew Busch, Gabriel Benincasa, Jay Clayton, Etienne Amic, Wilfred Yiu, Charles Li, Calvin Tai, Roger Lee, Bipin Patel, Romnesh Lamba, Roland Chai, Nic Maalouf...
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Trader-backed school invests in the future of Cambodia
Can one school change a country? Trevor Gile thinks so. He is one of the co-founders of the Liger Leadership Academy, a secondary school in Cambodia with an innovative and ambitious approach to education.
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EEX strengthens green energy push with Grexel acquisition
The European Energy Exchange has acquired Grexel Systems, a leading European energy certificate registry and a key service provider to the clean power industry. The acquisition, which was announced in December and closed in early February, is intended to complement the German exchange’s strengths in the European electricity and emissions markets and position the exchange to play a bigger role in Europe’s transition to a clean energy economy.
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TAIFEX delivers a stellar performance and hits an all-time trading record in 2018
Overall trading volumes on the Taiwan Futures Exchange reached another all-time record in 2018. More than 308 million contracts were traded, an increase of 16% compared to the previous year. In addition to growth in the exchange's core products, two other distinct factors also contributed to this exciting growth: the popularity of TAIFEX's night session, which more than doubled compared to 2017, and the expanding participation of international investors, who now account for 20% of the exchange's total volume.
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Photo Gallery - FIA Asia 2018
The 14th annual FIA Asia conference took place 27-30 November 2018 at The St. Regis Singapore.
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TAIFEX delivers a stellar performance and hits an all-time trading record in 2018
Overall trading volumes on the Taiwan Futures Exchange reached another all-time record in 2018. More than 308 million contracts were traded, an increase of 16% compared to the previous year. In addition to growth in the exchange's core products, two other distinct factors also contributed to this exciting growth: the popularity of TAIFEX's night session, which more than doubled compared to 2017, and the expanding participation of international investors, who now account for 20% of the exchange's total volume.
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