The London Metal Exchange continues to upgrade LMEselect, the exchange’s electronic trading platform, as part of a broader strategy to attract more financial institutions to its markets.
CONTINUE READINGThe Autorité des Marchés Financiers, the French regulator, in July implemented position limits for agricultural commodity derivatives.
CONTINUE READINGNEARLY 17 YEARS AGO, Mead Welles started an organization that has changed the lives of thousands of disabled children worldwide.
CONTINUE READINGAustralian Prudential Regulation Authority Chairman Wayne Byres and Tim Massad, Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, signed a memorandum of understanding on April 13.
CONTINUE READINGExchange-for-physical transactions have been custom-tailored over-the-counter products until now, but Euronext is about to change that.
CONTINUE READINGOn Sept. 28 the European Securities and Markets Authority published the final versions of its regulatory technical standards on three major pieces of financial reform legislation
CONTINUE READINGIHS Markit announced in April that it has acquired DeriveXperts, a provider of valuation services for OTC derivatives and other complex financial securities.
CONTINUE READINGThis past March, a group of venture capital firms and banking organizations led by BNP Paribas invested $30 million into Digital Reasoning, a privately held company based in Nashville that is emerging as one of the leaders in using artificial intelligence to analyze human communications.
CONTINUE READINGIn this issue, MarketVoice takes a look ahead at the "mega trends" affecting our industry. We asked four thought leaders—two from the regulatory world and two from the markets—to talk about the trends and issues that they see as the most important for our industry as we start the new year.
CONTINUE READINGOn Dec. 11, the Securities and Exchange Commission voted by a 3-1 margin to issue a proposed rule limiting how much investment companies such as mutual funds and exchange-traded funds can invest in derivatives such as futures, forwards and swaps.
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