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MF Global is to write off its 48% stake in ailing US Futures Exchange, spurring the mart to a last ditch effort to find a buyer for the business before the year end.
18 December 2008
GL Trade has closed a deal with Newedge Group, the global multi-asset brokerage firm, to extend the use of GL Instant Brokerage globally from its UK business to also cover its brokerage operations in Paris, New-York and Hong Kong.
16 December 2008
Cantor Fitzgerald has filed an application with regulators to launch an exchange that will allow users to hedge and speculate on the financial performance of movies.
08 December 2008
Nasdaq OMX has been chosen by the Futures & Options Association (FOA) to set up a UK spot and cash-settled derivatives power exchange.
27 November 2008
New York-based broker-dealer Ballista Securities has begun live trading on its alternative trading system (ATS) for block options and delta neutral orders.
10 November 2008
GL Trade has reported Q3 revenue up 10.5% to EUR162.8m despite its front-office sales being hit in Europe and sales of its Tradix and Sierra solutions falling worldwide.
06 November 2008
To terminate its LCH.Clearnet clearing contract the London-based derivatives exchange owned by Nyse Euronext will make a one-time payment of EUR260 million.
31 October 2008
Thomson Reuters has launched a hosted, low latency direct market data feed to the US Options Agency (Opra).
27 October 2008
North American hedge funds and asset managers will spend $253 million on low-latency options infrastructures in 2008 and this is set to rise to $305 million in 2011, a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of six per cent, according to Tabb Group.
16 October 2008
Wall Street Systems has launched a "pay as you go" post-trade processing utility for FX cash, FX derivatives, money markets, vanilla interest rate derivatives, and listed futures and options.
15 October 2008
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the UK's Financial Services Authority (FSA) will head up a task force - established by the technical committee of the International Organisation of Securities Commission (IOSCO) - that will examine regulation of the commodities markets.
02 October 2008
Bank of China International (BOCI) has signed for Massachusetts-based Progress Software's algorithmic trading platform, Apama.
08 September 2008
Transatlantic exchange Nyse Euronext is to launch a new US futures exchange in September after the Commodity and Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) approved its application to become a designated contract market (DCM).
22 August 2008
Nyse Euronext has won a deal to supply an options trading system, based on its Liffe Connect platform, to the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE).
28 April 2008
London-based derivatives exchange Liffe has confirmed plans to establish its own clearing house and says it will renegotiate contract terms with its current supplier LCH.Clearnet.
26 March 2008
CME Group has confirmed that it is acquiring The New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex) in a cash and stock deal worth around $9.4 billion.
17 March 2008
European derivatives exchange Eurex says it will establish a transatlantic trading and clearing link that will enable its customers to access options products at the New York-based International Securities Exchange (ISE), which it acquired last year.
13 March 2008
The new electronic futures exchange being set up by a group of banks and trading firms to take on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange will be named ELX Electronic Liquidity Exchange.
12 March 2008
RBC Capital Markets, the corporate and investment banking arm of Royal Bank of Canada, is implementing risk management technology from London-based trading technology vendor Patsystems across its futures division.
London-based derivatives exchange Liffe is planning to enter the clearing business in a bid to fight off competition from Project Rainbow, the European exchange being set up by investment banks, according to a Bloomberg report.
27 February 2008
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