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Feeling the squeeze
In the face of falling trading volumes, the London Metal Exchange has cut certain trading fees by 44% and introduced several structural changes designed to lower customers’ trading costs.
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Ensuring liquidity
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission on Aug. 8 announced several actions intended to address the impact of amendments to money market fund rules adopted by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Cyber security for market infrastructure
On June 29, the Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures and the International Organization of Securities Commissions released a set of guidelines for strengthening cybersecurity at exchanges and other financial market infrastructures.
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Clearing exclusion
FIA submitted a comment letter to the Federal Reserve on Aug. 5 supporting a proposed rule impacting a handful of large U.S. banks that are deemed to be systemically important at a global level.
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Protecting the secret sauce
Members of Congress from both sides of the aisle are questioning a proposal from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission that would give the agency the ability to get access to the computer code that underpins automated trading systems.
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Platform migration
ASX, the Australian securities exchange, plans to launch the first phase of a new electronic platform in November.
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Talk, don’t type!
The Potential for Automatic Speech Recognition in Financial Markets
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Instant messaging shift
Until Aug. 5, when Yahoo launched a new version of its instant messenger service, energy traders were still chatting like it was 1998.
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Blockchain and Futures: An Industry Perspective
Scores of companies are exploring ways to apply blockchain and other forms of distributed ledger technology, the technology that underpins bitcoin, to a wide variety of financial transactions.
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