Saxo Bank, the multi-asset online trading and investment specialist, has launched Saxo Prime, its new FX prime brokerage solution offering institutional clients direct market access (DMA) to major FX liquidity providers and venues worldwide. Saxo Prime combines prime brokerage functionality
The total number of futures commission merchants (FCMs) on Traiana’s Harmony Network for Exchange Traded Derivatives (ETDs) has now reached 12. There has been a rapid uptake of buy-side hedge funds and asset managers benefitting from the service, with
Eurex Repo, the marketplace for international, electronic repo trading and secured funding, plans to extend the maximum term of tradable securities for the Eurex Repo markets such as GC Pooling and Euro Repo. Currently, the maximum duration for transaction is
Clearstream and Belfius have agreed to develop a new collateral management activity for bilateral trades, focusing on over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives and aimed primarily at corporates and medium-sized banks. The service, which will leverage Belfius’ specialist experience, will be white-labelled by
A new legal master agreement for triparty repo transactions has been developed by Clearstream to enable market participants to sign just one contract for multiple counterparties and speed up counterparty “marriage broking”. Clearstream Repurchase Conditions (CRC), a master agreement
Tradeweb Markets, a provider of fixed income marketplaces, has seen a 34 per cent year-on-year increase in trade volume for European government bonds in the first half of 2013, and 31 per cent growth for European cash credit volume during
MarketAxess has launched an index to inform market participants of trends in liquidity and transaction costs in the credit markets. The MarketAxess Bid-Ask Spread Index (BASI) is designed using a proprietary methodology and tracks the spread differential between buy
MTA International, Borsa Italiana’s new segment dedicated to the trading of shares of foreign issuers already listed in other regulated EU markets, started trading on Monday 24 July.
The international derivatives exchanges of Eurex Group achieved an average daily volume of 10.8 million contracts in June (June 2012: 11.0 million). Of those, almost 8.1 million were Eurex Exchange contracts (June 2012: 8.5 million), and 2.7 million contracts
Reuters and CME have completed the formation of their previously announced 50/50 joint venture FXMarketSpace.
