On Nov. 17, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission published market integrity rules which create a consolidated set of market integrity rules for futures markets and securities markets.
CONTINUE READINGMike Davis, director of oil market development at Intercontinental Exchange, discusses current trends shaping the global oil markets.
CONTINUE READINGA few years ago, Simon Vincent, now of FIS, and Tony Foreman of Ancoa were on their normal train commute – from Kent in southeast England to the City of London.
CONTINUE READINGJ.P. Morgan Chase, ICAP and Barclays see a silver lining ahead for the New York voice communications startup Cloud9. In April, they announced that they had invested in the startup, which has a widely-used cloud-based voice trading platform.
CONTINUE READINGOn April 29 the European Securities and Markets Authority released the results of its first EU-wide stress test exercise for clearinghouses.
CONTINUE READINGSince joining Singapore Exchange as chief executive officer in July 2015, Loh Boon Chye has been busy reinforcing the exchange's position as a gateway to Asia's financial and commodity markets.
CONTINUE READINGIn an effort to better compete with global markets, Hong Kong's Financial Services Development Council issued a report on Feb. 26 proposing that a hedge exemption be included in Hong Kong's position limit regime.
CONTINUE READINGThe European Energy Exchange, a leading player in the European power, gas and emissions markets, is stepping up its presence in Asian commodity markets.
CONTINUE READINGOn Nov. 14, five U.S. financial associations including FIA asked the Securities and Exchange Commission to update its broker-dealer electronic retention Rule 17a-4 by eliminating an obsolete recordkeeping requirement known as WORM (write once, read many) that was first put in place more than 20 years ago.
CONTINUE READINGOn Oct. 26, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued an order that will keep the swap dealer de minimis threshold at $8 billion until December 2019.
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