With effect from 1 October, bond trading on Xetra will be expanded to include over 2,000 international government and corporate bonds and 60 German government bonds. Trading participants will benefit from a transparent and liquid bond market and gain access
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has approved the application of trueEX for designation as a contract market. trueEX is organised as a Delaware limited liability company and is a wholly owned subsidiary of trueEX Group. trueEX has indicated that
At the international derivatives markets of Eurex, an average daily volume of 10.4 million contracts was traded in October 2009. Year-on-year, the figure was 14.3 million due to the turbulence of the financial crisis. This year’s figure splits into 6.4
The CBOE Futures Exchange (CFE) says September 2012 was the most active trading month ever for futures on the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX). The record trading activity in VIX futures drove total volume at CFE to a new all-time high.
The international derivatives markets of Eurex Group recorded an average daily volume of 10.2 million contracts in September 2012, down from 12.4 million contracts in September 2011. Of those, 7.5 million were Eurex Exchange contracts (September 2011: 9.1 million), and
Fidessa, a provider of multi-asset class trading, portfolio analysis, compliance, market data and connectivity solutions, has launched LatentZero as a Service, its fully managed service for the buy-side front office. LatentZero as a Service goes beyond standard hosted or ASP
As the Securities Exchange Commission in the US puts pressure on measuring and defining dark pool activity, the same debate is occurring in Europe where buy-side equity traders are having a love-hate relationship with the dark. Trading in dark environments
Trend Capital, a Greenwich Connecticut based global macro hedge fund, has deployed Navatar Hedge Fund Cloud to manage its fundraising and investor relations. Navatar Hedge Fund Cloud helps manage operational functions, including investor subscriptions and redemptions, fund offering and returns,
PrimeOne Solutions, a division of CoreOne Technologies, is rolling out its new equity swap platform, Syn Prime, a synergistic addition to its set of hosted prime finance technology solutions. Syn Prime was developed by a team of industry experts to
The London Metal Exchange (LME) experienced record volumes in September, with 14.09 million lots traded. Average daily volume is up 8.5 per cent from 2011 with 633,702 lots trading per day. Up to the end of September 2012, 119.1 million
