Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) has expanded the frequency for disseminating values on its recently created CBOE Short-term Volatility Index (VXST index). VXST index values now are generally disseminated every 15 seconds during the trading day versus once a day
Fund administrator Capita Financial Group, a subsidiary of the London-listed Capita Group, the UK’s leading provider of outsourcing services, has established a dedicated Guernsey office he
UBS has formally opened the new office of its fund services business in Hong Kong, which will provide business development and client relationship management services to fund administratio
Options on futures markets are seeing rapid growth in trading volumes as investors expand their use of these instruments in hedging and volatility strategies. This is especially so as investors have anticipated changes in the winding down of the US
The CBOE Futures Exchange (CFE) and DRW Trading Group have completed an agreement that will allow CFE to use DRW’s patent-pending methodology to create variance futures that match the quoting conventions and economic performance of over-the-counter (OTC) stock index variance
The CBOE Futures Exchange saw new single-day volume records for total trading volume exchange-wide at CFE and for futures on the CBOE Volatility Index on 1 August. Total volume at CFE was an estimated 530,794 contracts traded, which surpassed the
HazelTree Fund Services, a New York-based provider of Treasury management services for hedge funds, will be expanding its operations westward with the opening of its newest office in San Francisco, California headed by Daniel Osborne, former Partner, COO and CTO
The future of quantitative trading methods is at risk of being indistinguishable from anything else in a transition to a new quant landscape where its success will require significantly more data, says research by TABB Group. “Micro-market structure arbitrate strategies
Dow Jones Indexes has expanded the Dow Jones LSP Position Sizing Index family to include three new size-segment indexes: Dow Jones LSP Position Sizing US Large-Cap 250 Index; Dow Jones LSP Position Sizing US Mid-Cap 250 Index; Dow Jones LSP
Deltix, a provider of software for the development of advanced quantitative strategies, has integrated its quantitative analytics and trading technology with Object Trading’s global DMA platform for equity, derivative and FX markets. The demand for an integrated solution comes as
