Eurex Clearing is to go live with Europe’s first central counterparty (CCP) service for the bilateral securities lending market on 22 November. In order to ensure a smooth and efficient market establishment, Eurex Clearing’s lending CCP will commence operations with
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) processed approximately USD19trn in securities transactions last week during the events of Superstorm Sandy. During and since this time period, DTCC has remained operational from its multiple out-of region facilities. The company’s New
NYSE Euronext has announced the 2013 holiday calendar and early closing dates for its European markets. NYSE Euronext’s European cash markets, including NYSE Arca Europe and SmartPool Trading, and its derivatives markets will be open Monday to Friday through 2013
The Eurex KOSPI Product traded 352,562 contracts on 7 November 2012 – a new daily record since the June 2012 introduction of the 500,000 KRW contract multiplier. The trading value of this daily record equals 121 billion Korean Won.
Scoach achieved a trading volume of EUR62 billion in Zurich and Frankfurt in 2011, making it Europe’s number 1. Its total offering of over 800,000 tradable products is actually the largest in the world. Turnover in Frankfurt was EUR19.6 billion
Gnip, a provider of public social media data for enterprise applications, has launched Gnip MarketStream, a product designed to incorporate the most relevant social media data streams into a single solution for hedge funds and high-frequency traders Gnip also announced
Hazeltree, a provider of integrated buy-side treasury management solutions, has release of Hazeltree Securities Finance Version 7, a comprehensive portfolio finance solution integrated with new market coloru, benchmark and intra-day rates, and utilisation trends. Hazeltree Securities Finance Version 7 enables
NYSE Liffe’s Robusta Coffee and Cocoa Futures contracts will be added to the Rogers International Commodity Index (RICI) for the first time. The changes will be implemented during the January roll period, at the end of January 2013. These new
Capital Markets Cooperative Research Centre (CMCRC), the Australian independent academic centre for capital market research, has shown that there is no link between high-frequency trading (HFT) and market manipulation, based on a new report using mathematical models for market abuse.
The industry decision to close the US markets for two trading days due to Hurricane Sandy resulted in a nine per cent decrease in the number of trading days in October 2012 for NYSE Euronext’s US cash equity and equity
