MarketAxess Holdings has launched a client to multi-dealer electronic credit default swap (CDS) index trading system in London and New York. The new system has been
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) Division of Market Oversight has issued a letter advising the Bolsa de Valores, Marcadorias e Futuros (BVMF-Brazil) that its MICEX Index, Hang Seng Index, FTSE/JSE Top 40 Index, and the BSE Sensitive Index
BeQuant, a cryptocurrency exchange for institutions and active traders, has launched allowing users to invest in numerous crypto asset classes.

 BeQuant’s core product is partnered with established technology Multiexchange who aggregates liquidity and works with large institutions such as HitBTC.
A growing number of North American institutional investors are using listed and highly liquid equity derivatives for hedging and investing purposes. This includes
Xtrakter, the fixed income specialist, has launched an over-the-counter liquidity service called XVOL. XVOL provides access to a range of liquidity and volume data to assist users in better determining the liquidity of differing OTC fixed income securities. XVOL offers
SteelEye, a compliance technology and data analytics firm, has published a White Paper outlining its best execution support for MiFID II’s regulatory technical standard, RTS27. SteelEye has expanded its comprehensive regulatory solution to support the requirement for trading venues to
Topix Futures will be available for trading on NYSE Liffe from 18 October, making the benchmark index available in both Tokyo and London. The Tokyo Stock Exchange’s Topix (Tokyo Stock Price Index) is the most popular index for benchmarking Japanese
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has released details on how its depository subsidiary, The Depository Trust Company (DTC), will introduce Settlement Matching, bringing enhancements to the settlement process and further reducing settlement risk. In a paper titled “Increasing
LCH.Clearnet has received approval from the UK Financial Services Authority to extend its interest rate swap clearing service, SwapClear. Buy-side firms can now access the service through clearing members based in Ireland and Switzerland. The extension means that institutional investors
Chicago-based Hedge Fund Research, Inc. has launched HFRX, a family of investable hedge fund indices.
