The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (Commission’s) Division of Market Oversight (Division) has issued a letter providing temporary relief from the requirements of the Commission’s regulations regarding large trader reporting of physical commodity swaps (§§20.3 and 20.4). Because this is the
Chi-X Japan, a wholly owned subsidiary of alternative market operator Chi-X Global, has added two local brokers, Yamawa Securities and Ark Securities, as trading participants. This brings the total number of trading participants to 23. Yamawa and Ark will
SEC trading rules may be providing dark venues a regulatory advantage over traditional stock exchanges, according to research by The Capital Markets Cooperative Research Centre (CMCRC). Soon to be published in The Journal of Financial Economics, the paper says that
Global bitcoin-gold platform DigitalTangible has expanded its offerings into Asia with new partner Melotic, allowing customers to trade their bitcoin and gold on the new Chinese crypto-gold trading platform. DigitalTangible offers the fine 1 oz Pamp Suisse physical Gold bars
Societe Generale Securities Services (SGSS) is to widen the scope of its implementation of direct connectivity to the Target-2 Securities (T2S) platform. T2S will provide participating central securities depositories with a single platform to which they may opt to outsource
Investment Technology Group, Inc. (NYSE: ITG), a leading agency research broker and financial technology firm, has launched algorithms for Mexican equities, including the proprietary Active algorithm, which has been customized for the structure and spread profile of the Mexican market.
NYSE Liffe will introduce a premium-based tick size for all equity options traded on Amsterdam’s derivatives market on 2 June 2009.
GAM, the active investment manager, has announced that GAM Multi-Systematic Trading is now available as a public fund.
Managed futures gained 0.16% in August according to the Barclay CTA Index compiled by BarclayHedge. Year-to-date, the Index remains down 0.51%. “Increasing volatility across global markets provided profitable opportunities for most of the major sectors,” says Sol Waksman (pictured),
GBST has worked with Omgeo to develop and certify its Syn~ application with Omgeo’s Central Trade Manager (CTM). The next generation GBST Syn~ application, an adaptable, workflow driven and easily integrated, rules-based solution, now provides clients with Omgeo CTM connectivity,
