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The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is on course to run out of room to store its data by October because of an £11 million technology budget cut, Commissioner Scott O'Malia has claimed.
26 January 2011
The Futures Industry Association has fired the latest salvo in its campaign to head off onerous new record-keeping rules by pressing ahead with plans for an ownership and control reporting system that it claims will form a 'practical and cost-effective' alternative to that proposed by industry watchdogs.
12 October 2010
US futures regulators have upbraided the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and Chicago Board of Trade for cutting compliance staff levels in the wake of their 2007 merger.
16 September 2010
CME Group says it inadvertently placed thousands of test orders on live energy and metals markets on its electronic trading platform yesterday.
15 September 2010
The Futures Industry Association has slammed regulatory proposals to gather more account information from market participants as "premature" and overly burdensome for the industry.
02 September 2010
Electronic trading and brokerage giant Instinet has launched a dark liquidity pool for US listed options.
03 August 2010
An oil trader who bought seven million barrels of crude in the early hours after "extremely heavy drinking" has been banned and fined by the FSA.
30 June 2010
Despite receiving regulatory approval, Cantor Fitzgerald appears set to abandon plans to launch an exchange for trading movie box office receipt contracts after lawmakers moved to ban the practice.
29 June 2010
BNY Mellon is creating a new company to clear futures and derivatives trades on behalf of its institutional clients.
22 June 2010
A US Senator has called on the Securities and Exchange Commission to review its "revolving door" policy, which sees many senior staffers leave for jobs with firms they once regulated.
17 June 2010
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is calling for a new rule governing co-location in a bid to level the playing field for traders.
11 June 2010
The Futures Industry Association (FIA) has set out recommendations devised to help manage the risk related to direct market access to exchange networks.
30 April 2010
A coalition of Hollywood players and politicians have joined forces to oppose two new electronic futures exchange for trading movie box office receipt contracts.
08 April 2010
US firm Media Derivatives claims it will pip rival Cantor Fitzgerald to launch the first electronic futures exchange for trading movie box office receipt contracts.
11 March 2010
Cantor Fitzgerald is set to launch an electronic futures exchange in April that lets traders hedge and speculate on the financial performance of movies.
24 February 2010
The credit crisis and rise of electronic trading have led to a fundamental shift in the global foreign exchange market towards risk mitigation over the last couple of years, according to research from CME Group.
22 February 2010
In a bid to woo high-frequency traders in London and Chicago, Thomson Reuters has launched a market data delivery service promising microsecond access to "market moving" machine readable news content.
25 January 2010
The Financial Information Services Division (FISD) and Finextra have forged a partnership to deliver a series of video webcasts for market data and risk management professionals worldwide with a focus on real-time data management and delivery, reference data, and standards.
06 January 2010
Screen dealing vendor Patsystems has won a $6 million contract to provide exchange, trading and risk management technology to the Turkish Derivatives Exchange (TurkDex).
14 December 2009
The US National Futures Association has set out highly restrictive compliance rules on the use of social networking channels such as blogs, chatrooms, forums, facebook and Twitter by member financial firms.
10 December 2009
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