The International Securities Exchange (ISE) has filed for approval with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to list options on the ISE Max SPY Index, a new proprietary index that represents ten times the value of the SPDR S&P500 ETF
Direct Access Partners, LLC, the customer-focused, multi-asset trading partner to a diverse range of clients including pension funds, mutual funds, hedge funds and RIAs, has announced a major enhancement to the Global Prime Services platform. The comprehensive offering provides an
On 19 January 2011 the European Commission (EC) suspended national registries in the EU ETS due to a theft of EUAs in a number of those registries. As a result, spot trading was not possible and Climex closed its spot
Eurex Credit Clear, the European over-the-counter clearing solution for credit default swaps, has successfully cleared its first transaction.
Apollo Global Management has completed the initial public offering of the Apollo Senior Floating Rate Fund, Inc (the fund). The fund is a closed-end fund investing primarily in a portfolio of senior secured floating rate loans with the objective of
Trading of ISS shares has opened on Nasdaq OMX Nordic. ISS, a large cap company within the industrial sector, is the third company to list on Nasdaq OMX Nordic in 2014, and the largest company to list on Nasdaq OMX
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has filed a Notice of Intent to Suspend, Revoke or Restrict the Registrations (Notice) of M25 Investments, In. (M25) and M37 Investments, LLC (M37), registered Commodity Trading Advisors of Waxahachie, Texas. According to
The CFTC has announced that Bloomberg SEF’s available-to-trade determinations (MAT determinations) for certain interest rate swap (IRS) and credit default swap (CDS) contracts are now self-certified. This self-certification involves only certain IRS and CDS contracts made available to trade via
Clearstream, BNP Paribas Securities Services, Intesa Sanpaolo and BBVA are developing an asset servicing model for a market environment with TARGET2-Securities (T2S). Clearstream will connect via its central securities depository to the T2S platform, hence attracting settlement flows, while the
A surge in algorithmic trading helped drive a significant increase in the share of US equity trading volumes executed via electronic platforms last year, according to the results of Gre
