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Futures industry cricket tournament raises funds for medical research
Fresh from the England cricket team’s world cup victory, fans of the game got another fix in July when organisations from across the futures industry took part in a full-day, six-a-side cricket tournament to raise money for the Motor Neurone Disease Association. Braving record-breaking temperatures in the City of London, teams from Euronext, Intertrader, Interxion, INTL FCStone, KRM22 and the London Metal Exchange competed in the third annual David Setters Trophy where, after a round-robin tournament, Interxion and Euronext faced each other in a closely contested final. Interxion went on to be crowned the winners.
CONTINUE READINGPeople News - July/August 2019
Appointments, promotions and other people news in the derivatives industry
CONTINUE READINGEuropean exchanges embrace tokenization
In the field of tokenization, European exchanges are thinking like venture capitalists. To get a better handle on this promising new technology, the exchanges are buying equity stakes in young companies with expertise in tokenization and helping them develop new products and services.
CONTINUE READINGGreater Chicago Food Depository helps fight hunger and its root causes
Hunger may sound like a problem only faced by the poorest regions of the world, but nearly 12% of American households do not know where their next meal will come from. Research also shows that hunger affects many kinds of people in the U.S., across all regions and races and age groups. That makes the work of the Greater Chicago Food Depository vital to the communities it serves, and has challenged the food bank to continually evolve since it opened back in 1979.
CONTINUE READINGVoLo Foundation uses data to fight climate change
When David S. Vogel founded Voloridge Investment Management in 2009, he was focused on using his expertise in predictive modeling to identify winning investment strategies. The fund's strategy applied sophisticated mathematical techniques to identify patterns in market data to try to predict which way stocks and futures would move next. His fund has been remarkably successful, attracting several billion dollars in assets under management. But David’s passion for numbers extends far beyond finance and markets.
CONTINUE READINGRisk Controls
Two leading international derivatives exchanges are planning to introduce a new type of risk control later this year to prevent a market participant from inadvertently trading with itself.
CONTINUE READINGPeople - June 2015
Martin Abbott, the former chief executive of the London Metal Exchange, was appointed as an independent non-executive director of Mitsui & Co. Commodity Risk Management, the London-based energy derivatives trading subsidiary of Mitsui & Co.
CONTINUE READINGMining Twitter for Trading Signals
The explosion in social media has created new ways to measure investor sentiment and turn that information into actionable intelligence about market direction. With this article, MarketVoice launches a series spotlighting companies with innovative financial technology.
CONTINUE READINGLeadership Through Sport and Business
A lot of my friends are either dead or in jail because they got involved in drugs
CONTINUE READINGInsight: The Importance of Deference
Welcome to the first issue of MarketVoice magazine and the new Insight column. As part of the expanded industry coverage in MarketVoice, I’ve set aside this column to explore key topics that are affecting our industry and membership.
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