By James Williams – “At Vanguard we view swap futurisation as a positive development. It is another step in the trend towards convergence of how fixed income securities are traded electronically. Whether its swaps or swap futures, going forward you
Chi-X Japan Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of market operator Chi-X Global, launched Chi-Match VWAP Cross (Volume Weighted Average Price) on 1 September. Chi-Match VWAP Cross offers participants a broker neutral morning, afternoon and full-day cross. Chi-X Japan trading
Morningstar is to make eVestment separate account and hedge fund data available to users of Morningstar Direct, the company's investment analysis platform for institutional investors. eVestment's database of more than 22,000 separate accounts and 23,000 hedge funds will be available
Eurex and Wiener Börse plan to enter into a cooperation which entails Wiener Börse operating its derivatives market on the Eurex system from March 2010, thereby replacing the
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has provided time-limited no-action relief concerning swap execution facility (SEF) access for block trade execution. This time-limited relief to SEFs is until 15 December 2015 at 12:00 am EST. The relief granted
Singapore Exchange (SGX) saw year-on-year growth in its commodities, clearing and fixed income activities in January 2012. Securities daily average value was notably 47% higher at SGD1.3 billion in January compared to a seasonally quiet December 2011, but down 27%
Volante Technologies has launched its SWIFT Funds Migration Accelerator, which is designed to increase firms’ readiness to support ISO 20022 funds message types. In November 2015, SWIFT will remove the ISO 15022 funds message templates from SWIFTNet. The 2015
CameronTec has integrated its FIX platform with the Object Trading’s global DMA platform for equity, derivative and FX markets. As sell-side firms wrestle with the opposing requirements to reduce business cost and complexity without diminishing client service, they increasingly look
Private financial cloud provider Options has partnered with Orchestrade Financial Systems to deploy its fully integrated position keeping, operations and risk management software to the Options platform. The partnership sees the IaaS provider offer clients a flexible, fully managed and
Euronext has launched weekly expiry dates on its CAC40 and AEX future contracts. The initiative, the first of its kind in Europe, complements the existing offer where futures contracts expire on a monthly or quarterly basis. The shorter expiry period
