Volumes on FXSpotStream grew at the fastest rate of all reporting eFX cash venues during the first half of 2018. Alan F Schwarz, CEO of FXSpotStream, says: “Our Average Daily Volume (ADV) was up 49 per cent in the first
A paper on the impact of the Securities Financing Transactions Regulation (SFTR) reveals that transaction reporting for securities financing trades may create five times as many reports as trades when the regulation takes effect, which is expected in early 2020.
NYSE Liffe, the Europe-based derivatives business of NYSE Euronext, says the rules and trading procedures of the Amsterdam and Brussels derivatives markets have been harmonised after regulatory approval of their respective regulators, the AFM and the CBFA. This harmonisation is
Citi has cleared its first client trades through the Chicago Mercantile Exchange on the CME’s newly launched interest rate swap clearing platform. In addition to CME, Citi currently clears interest rate swap trades for clients through LCH.Clearnet’s Swapclear service. Andrew
OKCoin is to join SharesPost’s Global Liquidity And Settlement System (GLASS) as exchange nodes. In conjunction with SharesPost’s existing Alternative Trading System (ATS), GLASS will provide OKCoin with compliant access to the US investor market. “With the security token market
The European Energy Exchange (EEX) has successfully conducted its 1,500th primary market auction for emission allowances. The auction, which was held on behalf of Poland, comprised a volume of 1,773,500 EUA and cleared at a price of 17.38 EUR/EUA.
February proved to be a difficult month for hedge funds, according to data released by Newedge, with eight of the firm’s suite of 11 hedge fund indices reporting negative returns for the month. The Newedge Short-Term Traders Index (0.62
Singapore Exchange (SGX) and The Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to cooperate in the development of Philippines-linked derivatives products. As part of the MOU, SGX and PSE will jointly explore the development and
Eze Software, a global provider of investment technology, has expanded its best execution offering with Trade Informatics’ (TI) Strategic & Tactical Analytic Research & Trading tool (START), a broker neutral automated intelligent trading engine. Backed by TI’s advanced pre-trade transaction
Options, provider of the Options PIPE Private Financial Cloud, a managed infrastructure platform for the trading and alternative investment communities, has expanded connectivity to additional global foreign exchange markets and has upgraded connectivity between the major US trading venues. With
