BEQUANT, cryptocurrency exchange and prime brokerage, has launched BEQUANT DIRECT, a new Advanced Connectivity Service offering a low-latency co-located trading environment for institutional and professional traders. BEQUANT’s co-location service will offer ultra-fast transfer of data, allowing for faster execution speeds
PEAK6 Advisors, an investment advisory firm launching a multi-asset class hedge fund, has selected Paladyne FastStart as part of its institutional-grade investment management platform. PEAK6 Advisors is a unit of PEAK6 Investments, a financial institution based in Chicago with businesses
Advent Software has launched a new interface between Tamale RMS and IntraLinks offering multi-manager organisations enhanced information automation and significant time savings with their research and due diligence processes. Advent’s Tamale RMS is the only RMS to offer the IntraLinks
The European Energy Exchange (EEX) has completed a contract agreement with the Hungarian Ministry of National Development for the auctioning of EU Allowances (EUA) for the second trading period of the EU ETS. The auction volume amounts to 2.5 million
CBOE Futures Exchange, LLC (CFE) plans to launch trading in S&P 500 Variance futures on Monday, 10 December. The S&P 500 Variance futures contract, like over-the-counter (OTC) variance swaps, allows users to trade the difference between the implied and realized variance
NYSE Liffe, the European derivatives business of NYSE Euronext, has expanded Bclear, the exchange’s trade confirmation, administration and clearing service, to include fixed income products. The new contracts available through Bclear will be Three Month Euro (Euribor) Futures, Three Month
ATA RiskStation has launched a web-based risk reporting solution for hedge funds and hedge fund services providers powered by PortfolioScience’s RiskAPI, an on demand, multi-asset risk analysis system. "Our proprietary risk system fills a clear market gap for cost-effective but
Eurex Exchange, the derivatives arm of Deutsche Börse Group, has launched what it believes to be the world’s most advanced trading system. Participants of Eurex Exchange will benefit from significantly improved performance, more choice and enhanced functionalities. “We believe this
The total trading volume on the European Energy Exchange (EEX) natural gas market amounted to 7,388,020 MWh in November. The spot market accounted for 3.474,450 MWh and the derivatives market for the other 3.913,570 MWh. The daily reference price on
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation plans to establish a subsidiary called DTCC Derivatives Repository, which will maintain global credit default swap data identical to that maintained in its New York based Trade Information Warehouse. The move is intended to
