The Japan Securities Clearing Corporation, the clearinghouse owned by the Japan Exchange, has extended the availability of its cross-margining service to customers.
CONTINUE READINGThe process by which the U.K. will leave the European Union, known as Article 50, is on course to be triggered by the end of March, following a vote in favor of the Article 50 Bill by the British members of Parliament on Feb. 8, endorsed by the House of Lords later in the month after thorough debate.
CONTINUE READINGThe Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation in January selected IBM, Axoni, and R3 to build a distributed ledger to handle certain post-trade processing functions for credit derivatives.
CONTINUE READINGVanguard's head of fixed income derivatives discusses trends in electronic trading and liquidity
CONTINUE READINGSADLY, IT IS MORE COMMON than not to be the victim of a cyber attack.
CONTINUE READINGTrading volume on U.S. options exchanges totaled 4.14 billion contracts in 2015, a 2.9% decrease from 2014.
CONTINUE READINGOn 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.
CONTINUE READINGThe Federal Reserve Board and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the branch of the U.S. Treasury Department that oversees national banks, proposed a rule on April 11 that would revise the leverage ratio requirements for the eight largest and most systemically important U.S. banking organizations.
CONTINUE READINGThe arms race of trading technology is showing no signs of stopping in the exchange world.
CONTINUE READINGOn June 24 the Monetary Authority of Singapore reprimanded the Singapore Exchange for “lapses” related to two market outages last year and directed the exchange to improve its recovery capabilities and processes.
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