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Metals Market Makeover
The London Metal Exchange and LME Clear have published a discussion paper to solicit feedback on a wide range of issues related to its core markets in non-precious metals, including trading and booking structures, clearing structures and services, delivery and physical market structure, membership and the LME ecosystem as a whole.
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Trading in 3D
Traders have always thought in terms of tides, waves and cliffs. Soon they will be able to actually see them in the markets.
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Asia Partnership
Deutsche Börse has added market data from the Taiwan Futures Exchange to its offering, making it possible for its customers to incorporate Taifex data into their systems.
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Bits to Barrels
Trafigura, the global commodity trading house, is experimenting with a distributed ledger system for processing trades in crude oil. In March it announced that it is working with Natixis, a French bank, and IBM to develop a platform that will digitize crude oil trades, and said the new system will offer "improved transparency, enhanced security and optimized efficiency. The system is hosted on IBM's cloud platform, Bluemix, and is built on an open source network called Hyperledger Fabric.
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Trading in 3D
Traders have always thought in terms of tides, waves and cliffs. Soon they will be able to actually see them in the markets.
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Expanded Access to Commodity Derivatives
The Securities and Exchange Board of India announced it will issue unified licenses to brokers and clearing members to transact in both commodity derivative and equity markets. This follows the merger of the Forward Markets Commission, which regulates commodity markets in India, and SEBI in September 2015. Previously, separate legal entities were required for the different businesses. Additionally, SEBI proposed to permit hedge funds to invest in commodity derivatives and said it will soon permit exchanges to offer commodity derivative options.
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Standardized Stress Testing for CCPs
In the paper “Stress This House,” LCH proposed a stress testing regime for central counterparties that would enable members to draw meaningful comparisons among CCPs, regardless of the variations due to product portfolio, margin models, confidence levels, default fund structure, assessments levels, etc.
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Rule 1.31
In January, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued a proposal to update and modernize Rule 1.31, which sets out certain recordkeeping requirements for futures commission merchants, commodity pool operators, trading firms that are exchange members, and other market participants.
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Rule 1.31
In January, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued a proposal to update and modernize Rule 1.31, which sets out certain recordkeeping requirements for futures commission merchants, commodity pool operators, trading firms that are exchange members, and other market participants.
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People - June 2017
The Hong Kong government reappointed Ashley Alder as chief executive officer of the Securities and Futures Commission for another three-year term effective from Oct. 1.
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