On Oct. 19, the European Securities and Markets Authority published a report on the size of the interest rate, credit, equity, commodity and foreign exchange derivatives markets in the EU.
CONTINUE READINGBeing a customer just wasn't enough. In September Deutsche Börse made a minority investment in Trifacta, a data processing firm founded in 2012.
CONTINUE READINGCQG, a leading independent provider of trading software, is introducing a new feature that is designed to allow a central trading desk at a futures broker to manage trades for multiple customers.
CONTINUE READINGOn Dec. 14, several international regulatory bodies jointly announced that they will conduct surveys of market participants as part of a broader review of the impact of the G20 reforms on clearing incentives.
CONTINUE READINGCME Group is making another run at the OTC FX market. The Chicago-based market operator recently unveiled an agreement with seven leading liquidity providers to begin using its clearing service for non-deliverable forwards and redoubled its efforts to promote the capital efficiencies that clearing can provide for FX traders.
CONTINUE READINGOn Nov. 10, China’s vice minister of finance Zhu Guangyao announced several steps to further open up China's financial industry to foreign participation.
CONTINUE READINGIt has been said that data are to this century what oil was to the last one—a driver of growth, change and disruption.
CONTINUE READINGBlue Trading Systems, an independent provider of trading software, is rolling out a new platform called BTS Spark that is designed specifically for high-speed spread trading of futures.
CONTINUE READINGOn Dec. 15, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued a proposed interpretation concerning the boundaries of its authority over the spot market in bitcoin and other virtual currencies.
CONTINUE READINGOn Dec. 1, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission gave the green light for three exchanges to launch derivatives on bitcoin, opening the door for an influx of investors to an exciting but potentially risky new asset class.
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