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News/Fixed income and OTC derivatives
The London Stock Exchange has extended its UnaVista service to the swaps market, automating the trading of CFDs and other equity derivatives and enabling users to communicate and match data through the platform.
13 October 2010
MTS, the electronic fixed income trading market majority owned by the LSE, has signed up six major banks to support its new Single Dealer Pages functionality for the BondVision platform, designed to enhance liquidity and best execution.
11 October 2010
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is calling for caps on the ownership stakes members can hold in clearing houses, exchanges and trading systems.
01 October 2010
The European Commission is proposing new regulations aimed at improving transparency and safety in over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives markets and tougher controls on short selling and credit default swaps.
15 September 2010
Inter-dealer broker Icap is to launch an electronic market for trading Euro interest rate swaps, with support from market makers Barclays Capital, Deutsche Bank and JPMorgan.
31 August 2010
US inter-dealer brokers have called on regulators to ensure fair access to newly-created Swap Execution Facilities as the Securities and Exchange Commission and Commodity Futures Trading Commission meet to discuss governance and conflicts of interest in the clearing and listing of swaps.
20 August 2010
Spanish bourse Bolsas y Mercados Españoles (BME) and Clearstream have begun testing their planned European OTC trade repository with the support of local banks BBVA and Banco Sabadell.
22 July 2010
The Committee of European Securities Regulators is considering mandating the use of electonric trade confirmation in the over-the-counter derivatives market as part of a regulatory overhaul designed to promote further standardisation and shift more dealing to organised trading venues.
20 July 2010
Five Chicago dealers have teamed up with the Chicago Mercantile Exchange to launch a new interest rate swaps trading platform in anticipation of financial reform measures designed to push over-the-counter derivatives trading to exchange-based systems.
14 July 2010
With IT budgets in the asset management industry beginning to stabilise, firms are turning their attentions to improving middle office processes, focusing particularly on client reporting, according to a survey from vendor Religare Technova.
09 July 2010
Just days after US-based Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation outlined plans to launch a European trade repository, Euroclear-owned Xtrakter says it might develop its own.
08 July 2010
Nyse Euronext is partnering with trade reporting venue Markit Boat to drive an OTC data consolidation initiative designed to enhance post-MiFID market transparency.
01 July 2010
Nasdaq OMX has initiated a pilot project with SEB and the Swedish National Debt office to offer central counterparty clearing of interest rate swaps as a prelude to the creation of a full scale clearinghouse for IRS in Swedish kronor.
23 June 2010
BNY Mellon is creating a new company to clear futures and derivatives trades on behalf of its institutional clients.
22 June 2010
Broadridge Financial Solutions has acquired City Networks, a long-standing UK-based provider of reconciliation, multi-asset process automation and operational risk management software and services to the finance industry. Financial terms were not disclosed.
21 June 2010
Credit Suisse has introduced a new algorithmic trading platform, Onyx, for fixed income dealing direct with the bank's US Treasuries trading desk.
15 June 2010
BNY Mellon has launched an auction marketplace where fixed income securities buyers and sellers can transact anonymously in real time.
11 June 2010
The influential EU Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee has called for an outright ban on speculative trading in certain derivatives contracts and the imposition of higher capital requirements for firms handling contracts that are not cleared centrally.
03 June 2010
Spain's Bolsa Y Mercados Españoles (BME) has set back the launch of a planned OTC trade repository by six months until the end of the year. The project's cross-border aspirations have received a boost, however, with Clearstream banking announcing its support for the venture.
01 June 2010
Bank-backed inter-dealer broker Dealerweb plans to take on Icap and BGC partners with the launch of electronic trading of US Treasury bills, according to a report in BusinessWeek.
28 May 2010
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