NYSE Euronext’s (NYX) global derivatives average daily volume (ADV) was 9.0 million contracts traded per day in January 2011, a decrease of 2.7% versus the prior year, but an increase of 35.6% sequentially. The fall in global derivatives ADV versus
New York Portfolio Clearing, a derivatives clearing house that will deliver single-pot margin efficiency between fixed income securities and interest rate futures, has been granted NYPC registration as a US Derivatives Clearing Organization (DCO) pursuant to the Commodity Exchange Act,
The international derivatives exchanges of Eurex Group recorded an average daily volume of 10.4 million contracts in January. Of those, 7.1 million were Eurex Exchange contracts (Jan 2010: 7.0 million), and 3.3 million contracts were at the US-based International Securities
Newedge, a global brokerage, has appointed Nicolas Breteau as the global head of sales and front office.
The Alpari group of companies has launched QuantumFX, an anonymous forex trading platform aimed at institutional investors. QuantumFX will provide corporations, hedge funds, banks and high frequency trading institutions with access to a diverse and deep liquidity pool and
Lucera Financial Infrastructures is making its infrastructure available to power electronic trading by financial institutions and high-frequency trading (HFT) firms. Lucera’s platform enables customers to accelerate time-to-market, high speed connections to marketplaces and exchanges, and reduce operational and regulatory risk
Morningstar has added OTC Markets Group data (previously known as Pink OTC Markets) to its Morningstar Quotes Data Feed. This latest addition complements the existing realtime and fundamental data sets, with realtime pricing data of more than 10,000 OTC securities.
BATS has selected Equinix as its primary data centre provider for all of the BATS exchange platforms, including the Direct Edge Exchanges – EDGA and EDGX. BATS and Direct Edge completed their merger on 31 January. EDGA and EDGX
100 Women in Hedge Funds (100WHF), a leading non-profit organisation for professionals in the alternatives industry, has launched its yearlong 10th anniversary celebration with events at several of the world’s leading stock exchanges. On January 24th, 100WHF members will
Omgeo and EuroCCP have launched joint development of a pan-European equities central counterparty service for hedge fund transactions.
