The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has launched two RBS Market Access Currency Hedged ETFs on NYSE Euronext’s Amsterdam market. These new currency hedged ETFs enable investors to invest internationally and hedge currency exposure in one trade, without having to
NYSE Euronext’s Board of Directors, consistent with its fiduciary duties and advised by its independent financial and legal advisors, has unanimously reaffirmed the previously announced combination agreement with Deutsche Boerse AG (XETRA:DB1) and rejected the unsolicited and highly conditional proposal
Union Investment, one of the largest German asset managers for private and institutional investors, has adopted EurexOTC Clear for Interest Rate Swaps (IRS). The company has been connected as an individually segregated client since end of March and has cleared
Quintillion has been chosen to provide administration services to the Investment Funds managed by Insparo Asset Management Limited (Insparo). Based in London, Insparo’s flagship Africa and Middle East Fund has returned 33% since launching in June 08. A second fund,
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission (Commissions) have delivered to Congress a joint staff study on “the feasibility of requiring the derivatives industry to adopt standardised computer-readable algorithmic descriptions that may be used to describe
Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) and CME Group have begun disseminating values for a new volatility benchmark index using futures options data on CME Group’s 10-year US Treasury note contract. The CBOE/CBOT 10-year US Treasury Note Volatility Index is the
OTC Markets Group, an operator of financial marketplaces for 10,000 US and global securities, and Exchange Data International (EDI), a provider of back- and front-office financial and securities data, have created the OTC Corporate Actions Data Service which will provide
Newedge UK and Newedge USA have both joined LCH.Clearnet’s SwapClear, the global clearing service for interest rate swaps. LCH.Clearnet’s SwapClear has been clearing OTC interest rate swaps for 14 years. The service has cleared more than 3.1 million contracts,
Financial data management specialist RIMES has enhanced its managed data services to offer buy-side firms an immediate solution to the ongoing challenges of managing a growing volume of reference and security master data. Reference and security master data form
The international derivatives exchange Eurex is to launch a new interest rate contract on 19 September 2011. The Mid-Term Euro BTP Future is based on notional medium-term bonds issued by the Republic of Italy (Buoni del Tesoro Poliennali – BTP).
