The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) Division of Market Oversight has issued a letter advising the Bolsa de Valores, Marcadorias e Futuros (BVMF-Brazil) that its MICEX Index, Hang Seng Index, FTSE/JSE Top 40 Index, and the BSE Sensitive Index
BeQuant, a cryptocurrency exchange for institutions and active traders, has launched allowing users to invest in numerous crypto asset classes.

 BeQuant’s core product is partnered with established technology Multiexchange who aggregates liquidity and works with large institutions such as HitBTC.
SteelEye, a compliance technology and data analytics firm, has published a White Paper outlining its best execution support for MiFID II’s regulatory technical standard, RTS27. SteelEye has expanded its comprehensive regulatory solution to support the requirement for trading venues to
Topix Futures will be available for trading on NYSE Liffe from 18 October, making the benchmark index available in both Tokyo and London. The Tokyo Stock Exchange’s Topix (Tokyo Stock Price Index) is the most popular index for benchmarking Japanese
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has released details on how its depository subsidiary, The Depository Trust Company (DTC), will introduce Settlement Matching, bringing enhancements to the settlement process and further reducing settlement risk. In a paper titled “Increasing
LCH.Clearnet has received approval from the UK Financial Services Authority to extend its interest rate swap clearing service, SwapClear. Buy-side firms can now access the service through clearing members based in Ireland and Switzerland. The extension means that institutional investors
Chicago-based Hedge Fund Research, Inc. has launched HFRX, a family of investable hedge fund indices.
GAM Investments has announced that all subscriptions and redemptions in its CHF7.3 billion unconstrained/absolute return bond funds (ARBF) have been suspended as of 31 July 2018, following redemption requests of over 10 per cent since the suspension of investment director
NYSE Euronext says global derivatives average daily volume reached 7.7 million contracts traded per day in September 2010, up 4.8 per cent versus the prior year and 22.5 per cent from August 2010. The increase in global derivatives ADV versus
Traders around the globe now have access to a hybrid cryptocurrency derivatives trading platform, Blockchain Board of Derivatives (BBOD), which has launched in partnership with GMEX Technologies and is enabled by GMEX’s Fusion Technology Suite. BBOD’s co-founder and CTO
