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Thomson Reuters has enhanced the Reuters Capital Markets 19901 (RCM19901) service with pricing sourced through Dealerweb and ICAP, providing its fixed income trading clients with a global rates offering to further enable trading decisions.
This is the first time that Tradeweb’s Dealerweb pricing will be available to the market, delivering robust pricing from leading market makers for the RCM 19901 service. Through this collaboration, Thomson Reuters trading clients will continue to have the same level of access to high quality data.
RCM 19901 enables clients to make effective evaluations using an extensive source of prices that assists with both portfolio
AcadiaSoft Inc, a provider of margin automation solutions worldwide, and risk analytics firm Quaternion Risk Management have formed a partnership to provide risk services for firms subject to initial margining requirements for non-centrally-cleared derivatives.
The initiative couples AcadiaSoft’s proven capabilities in automation with Quaternion’s extensive quantitative expertise and will enable AcadiaSoft clients to access a range of services via the secure environment of the AcadiaSoft Hub.
“Combining AcadiaSoft’s existing infrastructure with our risk analytics tools presents opportunities to create new products that will greatly benefit both the smaller players in the non-centrally-cleared market facing near-term hurdles, as well as
EEX Group significantly increased trading volumes in its biggest markets during the first six months of 2018.
On the power market, which faced significant regulatory uncertainty last year, EEX Group was again able to increase volumes. Furthermore the Natural Gas and Emission Allowance markets also achieved significant gains. In addition, EEX Group launched further measures in the smaller market segments for Agricultural products and Global Commodities with a view to strengthening its global position.
Peter Reitz (pictured), CEO of EEX, says: “These results clearly show that we have successfully dealt with the challenges of 2017 demonstrating that we are
PEGAS, the pan-European gas trading platform operated by Powernext, registered a total volume of 140.7 TWh in July 2018 (July 2017: 150.3 TWh), including 894,000 MWh traded on its Options segment.
The overall spot volume climbed by 55 per cent over the previous year, following, among others, a sharp increase in gas-for-power demand mainly caused by a resilient heatwave over Europe.
Spot trading volumes in July reached 84.2 TWh, up 55 per cent over the previous year (54.2 TWh). The Dutch TTF market area registered more than a two-fold increase with 29.2 TWh (July 2017: 13.2 TWh). The German
The London Metal Exchange and LME Clear have launched a consultation on proposed rule changes to enable the progression of their Strategic Pathway.
To facilitate the introduction of a broader range of contracts, the LME is proposing rule changes to enable a new streamlined approach to selected contract launches where the LME sees potential future success.
As such, following the technical deployment of “dynamic instrumentation” towards the end of 2018 and in response to specific requests from market participants, the LME proposes to launch eight new cash-settled futures contracts from January 2019, to include: three regional hot-rolled coil contracts
Exchange Data International (EDI), a provider of global security corporate actions, pricing and reference data, has launched US Bankruptcy Data developed in partnership with New Generation Research (NGR).
EDI, through this collaboration, now offers comprehensive data on US Bankruptcy Data for businesses with over USD50 million in assets. Historical data goes back to 2001.
The Bankruptcy Data allows subscribers to spend less time looking for business bankruptcy information and more time using it.
Jonathan Bloch (pictured), CEO of Exchange Data International says: “We are pleased to launch NGR’s US Bankruptcy Data service into our suite of products as
The European Energy Exchange (EEX) has successfully conducted its 1,500th primary market auction for emission allowances.
The auction, which was held on behalf of Poland, comprised a volume of 1,773,500 EUA and cleared at a price of 17.38 EUR/EUA. In total, 26 bidders took part in the auction.
Peter Reitz (pictured), CEO of EEX, says: “Over the years, EEX has decisively contributed to establishing large-scale emissions auctions in the EU ETS. Auctions have become a well-accepted and common market practice in Europe today. We support the further strengthening of auctions for emission allowances in the future, also with
CryptoCompare, a global cryptocurrency market data aggregator, has entered into a strategic partnership with Thomson Reuters, a provider of news and information for professional markets.
Under the agreement, CryptoCompare will integrate order book and trade data for 50 coins, sourced from a wide variety of trusted exchanges, into Thomson Reuters financial desktop platform Eikon, providing institutional investors with reliable insight into the crypto asset market as a whole.
Thomson Reuters Eikon is a solution for consuming real-time and historical data, enabling financial markets transactions and connecting with the financial markets community. Its news, analytics and data visualisation tools help
IHS Markit’s trade processing service for OTC derivatives, MarkitSERV, is at the forefront of the use of new reference rates replacing LIBOR in derivatives markets.
The first wave of OTC derivatives trades using the new Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR) used MarkitSERV to match, confirm and straight through process them for clearing and regulatory reporting. To date, seven major derivatives dealers have completed SOFR trades using MarkitSERV. These included both cleared and non-cleared, as well as party-to-party direct and SEF-executed trades.
“Helping our clients adopt new reference rates is a classic example of how we provide a highly reliable and
Resurgens Technology Partners has acquired InvestorForce from MSCI and is to merge it with portfolio company Investment Metrics. The combined investment analytics and reporting solutions business will cater for investment consultants, wealth managers and investment managers.
The transaction is expected to close within the next three months, subject to customary closing conditions. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
Resurgens says the merger will enable the combined business to provide investment tools for performance analysis, investment reporting, investment policy statements, peer benchmarking and competitive insights, leveraging the unique and substantial data assets of the combined company. The newly
