Futures and options

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Trading Technologies develops market data feed

When we set out years ago to rethink how technology could solve the industry’s toughest challenges, one prevailing theme we focused on was the idea of empowering a community.

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CME to close Chicago trading floor as Covid-19 precaution

CME Group today announced it will close its Chicago trading floor as of the close of business Friday, March 13, 2020, as a precaution to reduce large gatherings that can contribute to the spread of coronavirus in line with the advice of medical professionals.

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FIA Tech picks Baton Systems to streamline futures brokerage payments

FIA Tech, a leading provider of financial technology solutions for the futures industry, has selected Baton Systems (“Baton”), a provider of post-trade solutions for capital markets, to accelerate brokerage payments and shorten the settlement cycle for FIA Tech’s customers, which will benefit from faster time to revenue.

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Cboe buys data analytics firms Hanweck and FT Options

Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (Cboe: CBOE), one of the world's largest exchange holding companies, today announced it has acquired Hanweck Associates, LLC, a real-time risk analytics company based in New York, and the business of FT Providers, LLC, a portfolio management platform provider based in Chicago, commonly referred to as FT Options.

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Digital Vega hires JPMorgan's Rob Wemyss as head of business development

Digital Vega, the leading FX Options e-trading platform and provider of FX Options trading solutions, today announced the appointment of Rob Wemyss as a Non Executive Director and Head of Business Development, to support its ongoing product development and global expansion strategy.

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Dash ships options ATS

DASH Financial Technologies, an industry leading capital markets technology and execution provider, today announced the launch of an enhanced liquidity solution within its agency listed-options routing suite, SENSOR.

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Nasdaq eases access to options market data

Nasdaq (Nasdaq: NDAQ) today announced the launch of Nasdaq Smart Options, a service that allows for easier access to essential options market data.

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CME Group to launch bitcoin options in Q1 2020

CME Group, the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today announced it will launch options on its Bitcoin futures contracts in Q1 2020, pending regulatory review.

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Standard Chartered goes live with Digital Vega

Digital Vega, the leading FX Options e-trading platform and provider of FX Options trading solutions, today announced that Standard Chartered Bank has become a Liquidity Provider (LP) on its Medusa trading platform.

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Gedik Investment chooses Horizon platform for futures market making and algo execution

Horizon Software (Horizon), a leading provider of electronic trading solutions and algorithmic technology, announced today that Gedik Investment, the Borsa Istanbul-listed leading non-bank brokerage house of Gedik Investment Holding, has begun using its platform for futures market making and algorithmic execution.

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CFTC issues report on automated futures trading

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) Market Intelligence Branch in the Division of Market Oversight (DMO) issued a report today that analyzed the entering of orders manually and automatically in commodity futures markets in the United States to determine how technological change is affecting futures trading.

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Stable launches a commodity price risk management platform and seals $6m seed funding round

Stable, the venture backed fintech that is rapidly disrupting the commodity price risk management (CPRM) industry, today announces the launch of its risk management platform.

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OCC picks Cinnober clearing system

Cinnober, a global provider of exchange and clearing technology solutions acquired by Nasdaq, today announces that OCC will replace its legacy clearing system with a system that employs Cinnober’s TRADExpress RealTime Clearing.

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CME Group closes NEX acquisition

CME Group Inc. (Nasdaq: CME) today announced that it has completed its acquisition of NEX Group plc (NXG.L). The combined company will enable clients worldwide to trade futures, cash and over-the-counter (OTC) markets, optimize portfolios and analyze data to efficiently manage risk and capture opportunities.

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Trading Technologies inks deal with TradeStation

Trading Technologies International, Inc. (TT), a global provider of high-performance professional trading software, today announced that the company has entered into a long-term agreement with TradeStation Securities, Inc. (TradeStation Securities) to provide TT’s advanced options-on-futures trading functionality to TradeStation customers via the TT trading platform.

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QuantHouse adds access to QB best execution algos

QuantHouse, the leading independent global provider of end-to-end systematic trading solutions including innovative market data services, algo trading platform and infrastructure solutions, today announced access to Quantitative Brokers’ (“QB”) best execution algorithms for futures and fixed income.

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Gmex collaborates with Demand Derivatives on futures exchange and blockchain clearing house

Demand Derivatives Corp., a creator of novel derivative instruments, and GMEX Group (GMEX), a leading provider of exchange and post-trade business technology solutions, will combine forces to launch a U.S.-regulated futures exchange, RealDemand Board of Trade (“RealBOT”), and clearing house, RealDemand Clearing (“RealClear”).

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Straits Financial Services signs for TT futures trading platform

Straits Financial Services Pte. Ltd. (Straits Financial), a leading Singapore-based brokerage, and Trading Technologies International, Inc. (TT), a global provider of high-performance professional trading software, today announced Straits Financial has contracted with Trading Technologies to distribute the TT futures trading platform.

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Quantitative Brokers opens Sydney office

Quantitative Brokers (QB), an independent provider of advanced algorithms and data-driven analytics to clients in the Futures and US Cash Treasury markets, today announced that they have expanded into the Asia Pacific region with a new office in Sydney, Australia, and offering their services 24 hours a day, six days per week.

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Caitong Securities goes live with Horizon options trading platform

Horizon Software (Horizon), the leading global technology provider for electronic trading and investment management, announced today that the China-based securities firm Caitong Securities has gone live with its Options Trading platform to trade SSE 50 ETF options on the Shanghai Stock Exchange.