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Complex Order Tool
EESAT, a Chicago-based financial technology startup, has won an important endorsement.
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Capital Efficiency
INTL FCStone in July merged three U.S. subsidiaries, including its futures commission merchant subsidiary, into one business unit.
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Market Data
NovaSparks, a company that specializes in offering low-latency market data through field-programmable gate array technology, is now linked to the Montreal Exchange.
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Enhancing the Benchmark
On July 2 Intercontinental Exchange announced two steps to enhance the benchmark status of the Brent Index.
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Fair Markets
The Bank of England on June 10 published the final report of the Fair and Effective Markets Review, a comprehensive effort by the U.K. regulatory authorities to raise standards and improve regulation for wholesale markets in fixed income, currency and commodities.
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Uncleared Swaps
On June 29, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission voted unanimously to propose a rule that would apply the CFTC’s margin requirements for uncleared swaps in the context of cross-border transactions.
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Trading Analytics
In a move designed to diversify its offerings, CBOE Holdings, the parent company of the Chicago Board Options Exchange, reached an agreement in June to buy the market data services and trading analytics platforms of Livevol, a provider of options technology and market data services.
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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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