BNY Mellon has launched MarginEdge, a global derivatives margin management service that allows financial institutions, clearing members and central counterparties (CCPs) to manage margin collateral efficiently while balancing trading costs and capital requirements associated with listed, cleared over-the-counter (OTC) and
Systematic Alpha Management (SAM), a New York based CTA, will launch the Systematic Alpha Multi-Strategy Futures Fund (SAMSFF) in January 2012, a new fund that aims to achieve consistent positive returns with low volatility and low correlation to all other
NYSE Euronext and French state-owned bank Caisse des Dépôts have announced plans to open an organized international market to trade carbon allowances and credits.
While equity brokerage firms across Europe currently continue to reap the benefits of global stock markets, a series of structural changes threaten the economic prospects of the continent’
Alliance Bernstein is now actively clearing over-the-counter interest rate swaps through LCH.Clearnet’s SwapClear service. The move comes in advance of regulatory mandates in the US to clear over-the-counter derivatives. The initial trades were executed and cleared by Citi and affirmed
The first trade repositories need to begin European Market and Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) reporting for all derivative counterparties in February 2014, according to the European Securities and Markets Authorities (ESMA).

 As a result, any derivative counterparty in the European Economic
ICAP and Interactive Data Corporation have formed a new collaboration for over-the-counter data distribution. Risk managers, institutional investors and portfolio managers increasingly require access to comprehensive pre-trade price information for improved evaluations, risk management and compliance assessments. Under the
Direct Access Partners has launched ETF Liquid providing a centralised source of aggregated liquidity in the overnight market for Exchange Traded Funds. ETF Liquid offers enhanced pricing and greater market depth for Direct Access Partners’ institutional client base. The group
A total of some 156 million contracts were traded on the Eurex international derivatives exchange in September, a year-on-year increase of more than 16 per cent from 134 million contracts
Online foreign exchange portal FXall has announced record trading volume of more than USD90bn in a single day, along with a rise in average daily volume for September of more than 44 per c
