From 13 August, all New York Stock Exchange and NYSE MKT securities as well as staff, operations and systems responsibility will return to the Designated Market Maker (DMM) unit of Knight Capital Americas from GETCO in light of the completion
In the first month of trading the AAM Mantis Program returned 2.49%, despite global economic problems. Whilst Portfolio manager Stavros Loizou’s mandate allows him to take long and short positions in Equity Indices, Bonds and FX, the Mantis’ return in
A total of 20 market makers have signed on to provide liquidity when trading commences in FX futures on 23 September 2005, on Eurex US. An additional eight firms ha
Order book turnover on Xetra and the Xetra Frankfurt specialist trading stood at EUR131.6 billion in September – an increase by 26.7 per cent year-on-year (September 2010: EUR103.8 billion). Of the EUR131.6 billion, EUR126.1 billion were attributable to Xetra (+28
NYSE Euronext has reported significantly increased trading volumes year-on-year across all venues, but mostly down sequentially from unseasonally strong levels in August 2011, which were driven by heightened market volatility in the US and Europe. NYSE Euronext global derivatives
Smith & Williamson Fund Administration (SWFAL) has successfully implemented the automated end-to-end straight through processing (STP) CREST settlement interface into its Babel messaging platform. Smith & Williamson is the first Bravura client to go live with this module, which provides
The removal of limits on foreign investments for Canadian institutions is expected to result in the transformation of Canada’s fixed income markets. More than 40% of Canadian institutional i
The international derivatives market Eurex Exchange has set several new records in its Euro-OAT Futures. In August 2012, open interest exceeded for the first time the 100,000 threshold with 104,869 contracts. Trading volume in July also set a new record,
Eurex saw turnover increase by around 19 percent to 90 million contracts against the same period last year (August 2004: 75.7 million contracts). At 821 million con
RS Platou Markets, the investment banking arm of RS Platou Group, has selected Fidessa group’s Software as a Service sell-side trading platform. The Oslo-based brokerage firm will be using Fidessa to underpin its global trading operations including connectivity to a
