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Nasdaq is now supplying futures data to Interactive Data's product line through Nasdaq Futures, Inc (NFX), the exchange group's US-based designated contract market (DCM) that launched on July 24, 2015.
Interactive Data connects to NFX through its 7ticks service, a platform that combines exchange access and market data services, infrastructure managed services, proximity and co-location services and global connectivity. NFX data is supplied to Interactive Data's Consolidated Feed, a single delivery mechanism that connects to more than 400 global market venues, and through FutureSource, an Interactive Data desktop offering that gives futures and commodities industry participants pre- and post-trade analysis
Bloomberg Tradebook has launched an Electronic Trading Platform (ETP) in Japan, in support of the September 1 mandate for banks and securities firms to use electronic platforms for specified over-the-counter (OTC) derivative transactions.
Tradebook Japan is operating the new trading platform for its ETP, under the Japan Financial Instruments and Exchange Act (FIEA). As of 1 September, mandatory use of electronic trading platforms goes into effect, covering certain Japanese yen denominated interest rate swap transactions and affecting certain financial institutions with notional amounts of JPY6 trillion or more for specified OTC derivative transactions.
"Bloomberg is committed to support the
ChartIQ, a specialist in HTML5 financial charting, and Adaptive, an institutional front office software development consultancy, have launched a new integration via OpenFin, demonstrating the future of integrated HTML5 software for capital markets.
As banks look to replace or enhance legacy systems they are turning to HTML5 for rapid development of front office systems. Unfortunately, these applications are too often locked inside a browser, and don’t offer the seamless experience users expect from integrated market data terminals or trading applications. OpenFin provides firms with a desktop runtime that allows HTML5, Java, .NET and C++ applications to work together, bridging old
Euronext has received approval from the Israeli Securities Authority (ISA) to allow Israeli based qualified trading firms to have direct access to Euronext’s cash and derivatives markets.
The agreement will allow Israeli based firms to trade cash and derivatives on the regulated markets operated by Euronext. In addition, Euronext will now be able to promote its products locally with such qualified firms.
Lee Hodgkinson (pictured), Head of Global Markets and Sales and CEO of Euronext London, says: “In line with the impressive entrepreneurial and technological development of the country, Israel’s financial services community has rapidly evolved. The Israeli trading
The Retail Distribution Review has aided the recent rapid growth in ETF usage in the UK says Hector McNeil (pictured), Co-CEO, WisdomTree Europe. "Increasingly with the move to fee-based models, the alignment of the wealth adviser and investors is more apparent," he says. "It's now a much more symbiotic structure and basically the structure that they have in the US, where ETFs have taken off."
ETFs are cost effective, transparent and liquid, McNeil says, allowing a blend in asset allocation of active and passive funds.
"The majority of products are Delta one using either asset allocation or a core satellite
In terms of ETF assets under management, Lyxor Asset Management is in the top three in Europe, with USD54 billion in assets in ETFs, behind iShares and Deutsche Bank.
Arnaud Llinas (pictured), Head of ETFs and Indexing at Lyxor Asset Management says: "We are one of the major players in this industry in Europe , and the second largest issuer of ETFs in Europe in terms of inflows year to date." The firm first launched ETFs in Europe in 2001. "What we have particularly focused on since our creation is innovation. We try to be at the forefront of innovation,
By Nitesh Shah (pictured), ETF Securities – The commodity cycle is turning. Excess supply is being cut back across a broad range of commodities. While it will take time to reduce surplus stock, the trend is now set in the right direction. Sentiment however, remains stubbornly negative as multiple years of poor performance has jaded investors. We assert that if sentiment starts to realign with fundamentals there maybe scope for strong price gains. Exchange traded products (ETPs) allow investors to capitalise on such investment themes.
There are plenty of examples within the commodities space where sentiment and fundamentals are currently
By Fannie Wurtz, Amundi – The development of Smart Beta solutions has become a major field of innovation in the ETF industry: the wide range of both mono and multi-strategy ETFs allows investors to benefit from a broad choice of tools to meet different investment needs and weather changing market conditions. In the case of ETFs which track Buyback indices, investors may be able to access significant yield through a return-oriented filter to the underlying investment universe. Furthermore, stock selection can be improved with an equal-weighting scheme applied by the index provider to ensure unbiased exposure to the underlying theme.
Swiss bank UBS, headquartered in Zurich has been offering ETFs for some time across continental Europe but it was only in the last few years that they entered the UK market from which point their business has been gaining strong momentum ever since.
Andrew Walsh (pictured), head of UBS ETFs sales in the UK, explains that the long history of active fund use in the UK had held back the demand for ETFs for a number of years, but since 2013 usage has continued to increase at a steady pace.
"Increasingly, wealth managers and independent financial advisers are using ETFs
There are convincing signs, including the recent 18-year high of the Nikkei share index, that Abenomics is reinvigorating the world's third largest economy. The Japanese ETF industry too has enjoyed tremendous growth under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's economic reforms and now some leading Japanese ETF providers are courting Western investors.
Nikko Asset Management, one of the pioneers of the ETF business in Japan, launched their first ETF back in 2001. Tokyo-based Koei Imai (pictured), head of the firm's ETF Centre, explains that the Japanese ETF market underwent significant deregulation in 2007 in an effort to encourage greater product innovation. Nikko
