First-day trading volume for CBOE Short-Term Volatility Index options with weekly expirations totalled an estimated 3,134 contracts, according to data released by the Chicago Board Options Exchange. “We were pleased to see a very active opening day of trading in
The number of agricultural derivatives traded on Eurex has exceeded 100,000 contracts since their launch in July 2009. Volume has been increasing steadily, partly due to the volatile weather conditions in 2011 and 2010. Year-to-date, the average daily volume (ADV)
Pictet Asset Management, the asset management arm of the Swiss private bank Pictet & Cie, has launched the Kronos Fund, a global equity long/short trading fund. The fund is distinctive as it combines a long/short equity strategy with an overlay
LCH.Clearnet’s interest rate swap (IRS) clearing service, SwapClear, has launched the industry’s first certification programme for consultancy firms preparing market participants for the implementation of centralised OTC clearing. Five consultancies have already signed up to join the global initiative, which
EFETnet BV and The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), following their successful pilot program launched in January as the first global repository for OTC commodity swaps, have begun accepting trade submissions from commodity market participants into the new Global
C-View, the UK-based discretionary currency trading hedge fund manager, has selected alternative assets marketing firm MCAM Group to raise capital for the C-View Currency Managed Account Program (CMAP) and for the C-View Emerging, Developing and Minor Currency Program internationally. 

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Eurex Clearing has published a study looking at maximising capital and cost efficiency through an integrated cross-product central counterparty (CCP) clearing service. The study was supported by and commissioned to Oliver Wyman, a global management consulting firm. The study
Wealth manager and ETF specialist SCM Private has marked its two year anniversary with the launch of the SCM Private Bond Reserve Portfolio and fee reductions that continue its philosophy of putting investors first. The SCM Private Bond Reserve Portfolio
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) Divisions of Market Oversight (DMO) and Swap Dealer and Intermediary Oversight (DSIO) have issued a no-action letter with respect to swaps trading on multilateral trading facilities overseen by authorities designated by European Union member
NYSE Liffe, the Europe-based derivatives business of NYSE Euronext (NYX) is adding options on the shares in UNIT4 N.V. (ticker symbol: UNT) to its highly successful range of equity option classes. Trading in options on UNIT4 will start on 24
