Kinesis, the creator of bullion-based currencies traded on the blockchain, has formed a liquidity partnership with Finemetal Asia, a specialist distributor of physical precious metals. Finemetal Asia will be providing liquidity for the soon to be launched Kinesis currencies,
The international derivatives markets of Eurex Group ended 2012 with a turnover of approximately 2.3 billion contracts, compared with 2.8 billion in 2011. The total volume for 2012 splits into 1.7 billion contracts traded at Eurex Exchange (2011: 2.0 billion)
The Eurekahedge Hedge Fund Index was up one per cent in December, bringing the yearly number to 5.63 per cent. The MSCI World Index returned 2.28 per cent in December and was up 13.75 per cent for year 2012. Hedge
Total exchange-wide trading activity and trading volume in futures on the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) reached new all-time highs during 2012. Total exchange-wide trading activity and trading volume in futures on the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) reached new all-time highs
Celoxica, a provider of ultra low latency market data and order entry solutions for high frequency traders, has launched its next generation hardware-accelerated, futures trading platform for firms executing low latency trading strategies on futures exchanges. Continued volatility and escalating
The European Power Exchange (EPEX SPOT) and the clearing house European Commodity Clearing (ECC) have introduced 15-minute continuous Intraday trading on the Belgian and Dutch local power spot markets. The first trading day was 10 July 2018. “In Intraday trading,
All registered swap dealers active in credit and interest rate trading are now sending information to the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation’s (DTCC) swap data repository, DTCC Data Repository (DDR). On 31 December, DDR began accepting data from swap dealers
Scoach achieved a trading volume of EUR42.6bn in Zurich and Frankfurt in 2012. Since it was founded, Scoach has held its number one position in Europe continually and ranks third in global terms behind the Hong Kong Exchange and the
Technology company ConvergEx Group has signed a definitive agreement to acquire RealTick, a multi-broker, cross-asset electronic execution platform, from Barclays Bank. Financial terms were not disclosed. The deal is expected to close by year end 2010, conditional upon regulatory and
Calypso Technology, an application software provider of an integrated trading, risk and processing platform to financial institutions and corporate treasuries, has launched an over-the-counter clearing service for derivative clearing members. The latest product development builds on the Calypso System as
