Vanguard'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.
CONTINUE READINGIn 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.
CONTINUE READINGTraders scouting for relative value opportunities across fixed income futures, swaps and cash Treasuries now have access to an online application that taps into real-time data from CME Group and ICAP.
CONTINUE READINGMoney.Net, a New York-based start-up founded by a former Bloomberg executive, has developed an online market data and analysis platform for professional traders with many of the same features as a Bloomberg terminal but at a much lower cost.
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