The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today announced it filed separate but related civil injunctive complaints in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York in connection with the operation of two forex pooled investment vehicles
Quantifi, a provider of analytics and risk management solutions for the global OTC markets, has published a joint whitepaper with consultant Jon Gregory exploring the difference in capital charges between the simple and more advanced approaches and the capital relief
Irwin Menken, founder of software company C3, has joined Avalon Lake Partners. C3, a proprietary, web-based regulatory infrastructure tool, assists hedge funds and broker dealers with document aggregation, document audit trails and calendaring as these tasks relate to SEC and
Thomas (Tom) Kingsley is to drive Bloomberg Tradebook’s Asia Pacific execution consulting practice from Singapore. Kingsley brings 15 years of experience with the Asian equity markets having led sales and trading teams at buy-side and sell-side institutions. He joined Bloomberg
Indus Valley Partners (IVP), a provider of technology solutions to alternative asset managers, has added CPO-PQR and CTA-PR reporting functionality to the firm’s regulatory filing and reporting application – IVP RAPTOR. The update gives registered commodity pool operators (CPOs) and
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) processed approximately USD19trn in securities transactions last week during the events of Superstorm Sandy. During and since this time period, DTCC has remained operational from its multiple out-of region facilities. The company’s New
NYSE Euronext has announced the 2013 holiday calendar and early closing dates for its European markets. NYSE Euronext’s European cash markets, including NYSE Arca Europe and SmartPool Trading, and its derivatives markets will be open Monday to Friday through 2013
AXA Private Equity announced this week the opening of its first China office in the country’s capital, Beijing. This continues the firm’s expansion in Asia having opened its first office in Singapore in 2005. It has since deployed USD1.3billion of
The Eurex KOSPI Product traded 352,562 contracts on 7 November 2012 – a new daily record since the June 2012 introduction of the 500,000 KRW contract multiplier. The trading value of this daily record equals 121 billion Korean Won.
Scoach achieved a trading volume of EUR62 billion in Zurich and Frankfurt in 2011, making it Europe’s number 1. Its total offering of over 800,000 tradable products is actually the largest in the world. Turnover in Frankfurt was EUR19.6 billion
