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Company update/Futures and options
OptionsCity Software, a global provider of electronic trading solutions for professional futures and options traders, today announced that the firm has completed certification with CME Group’s Market Data Platform (MDP) 3.0.
29 September 2014
Today Euronext announced that trading in equity options on Euronext N.V. shares will start on the Amsterdam derivatives market as of Thursday 28th August.
20 August 2014
News/Futures and options
Exchange operator CME Group has agreed a deal to buy the Trayport and Fenics trading technology units from GFI Group in a deal worth around $655 million.
30 July 2014
The London Metal Exchange is to spend £1 million on new technology to reinvigorate trading on its 137-year old open-outcry dealing floor.
23 June 2014
A comprehensive rewrite of rules governing trading in financial markets has been agreed by the European Parliament and the bloc's Council of Ministers.
15 January 2014
A computer error at Goldman Sachs saw a wave of erroneous options orders sent out to American exchanges yesterday, and could cost the bank up to $100 million.
21 August 2013
CME Group's procedures for monitoring Exchange for Related Position (EFRP) transactions are "inadequate" and should be beefed up quickly, says the Commodity Futures Trading Commission,
05 August 2013
CME Group says that it is working to close the time gap that sometimes exists between customers receiving trade confirmations and the information appearing in public data feeds after the Wall Street Journal reported that high-speed traders are exploiting the lag.
01 May 2013
A badly bungled systems reconfiguration at the Chicago Board Options Exchange that shut down trading for three-and-a-half hours last week is set to increase pressure on the CBOE to let rival exchanges trade its proprietary options products.
30 April 2013
New swaps data reporting rules have left the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) floundering in a sea of data, its computers crashing under the strain, claims one of the watchdog's own commissioners.
20 March 2013
ION Group's acquisition spree shows no sign of ending, with the fintech firm's Pattington subsidiary agreeing to buy FFastFill in a cash deal which values the UK derivatives trading vendor at £106.1 million.
15 February 2013
A former Goldman Sachs trader has been charged by US regulators with bypassing internal systems to conceal an $8.3 billion position from the bank and defraud it of $118 million.
09 November 2012
The CBOE Futures Exchange (CFE) is to establish a London hub and expand trading of its popular VIX contract to 24-hours in 2013.
07 September 2012
CME Group, operator of the world's largest futures exchange, has applied to the Financial Services Authority to establish a European derivatives market based in London.
20 August 2012
IntercontinentalExchange says it will bring open-outcry floor trading at its ICE Futures US unit to an end in October, going exclusively electronic.
27 July 2012
Chicago-based exchange operator CME Group is opening a technology-focused office in Belfast, creating up to 90 jobs.
03 May 2012
The US Securities and Exchange Commission has charged online brokerage optionsXpress, four of its employees and one customer in connection with a naked short selling scheme.
17 April 2012
Swiss-German derivatives exchange Eurex is to move to an entirely new trading platform in a phased migration beginning in December 2012.
09 February 2012
UK screen-dealing software house Patsystems has issued a profits warning as sales to emerging exchanges are hit by economic and financial turmoil.
03 October 2011
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is to push ahead with a tranche of new rules governing market manipulation and large trader reporting under the Dodd-Frank financial reform act.
08 July 2011
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