The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) has launched the CBOE Mobile options application for iPhone and iPad users. The app features a variety of basic to advanced educational courses specifically developed for mobile application by The Options Institute, CBOE's educational
By Gene Ekster – Some historians note that in the 50’s Sam Walton, the founder of Wal-Mart, would get into his silver 75hp two-seater airplane and take to the skies to count cars in parking lots with the aim of
Hedge360’s Risk Reporting Service, as part of the platform’s managed service offering, equips managers with the tools needed to manage and effectively report risk to an institutional standard. Laurence Wormald identifies this growing level of institutionalisation, coupled with regulatory requirements,
EY (Ernst & Young) last year published an operational efficiency survey and in it, they found that 40 per cent of respondents had already outsourced their middle office functions (26 per cent), or planned to over the next two years
Bloomberg’s multi-asset swap execution facility, Bloomberg SEF LLC, has launched a List trading tool for Interest Rate Swaps (IRS). The new List tool enables market participants to improve operational efficiency by creating and sending a “basket” of swaps that can be
Euronext is planning to launch a full rapeseed derivatives solution on 14 November 2014, which will allow the industry to trade individual futures and options contracts for rapeseed grain, meal and oil. Euronext is the first exchange in the world
Eurex Exchange continues to ensure market support for its recently launched listed variance futures contract, which is based on the EURO STOXX 50, the most prominent equity index in Europe. DRW Investments, developer of the variance conversion methodology, has started
CitiFX has launched a new multi-manager platform, CitiFX Access, offering a range of vehicles facilitating investment in FX managers via multi-strategy benchmark and actively-managed indices licensed from leading index sponsors. The returns of these indices are driven by the performance
Orc Group has launched Orc Market Maker for EMEA, a high-performance solution designed to address the most pressing challenges faced by market makers in today’s competitive markets. Developed and proven on some of the most demanding instruments listed on
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC’s) Office of General Counsel has issued a no-action letter on 31 August, 2011, permitting the offer and sale in the United States of Euronext Brussels’ (EB) futures contract based on the BEL 20 Index
