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Nyse Euronext and DTCC team on fixed income derivatives clearing house

Nyse Euronext and the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) are teaming up to create a clearing house for US fixed income derivatives.

18 June 2009

News/Fixed income and OTC derivatives

Omgeo and EuroCCP to develop central counterparty for hedge fund transactions

Post-trade utility Omgeo and clearing house EuroCCP have launched joint development of a pan-European equities central counterparty (CCP) service for hedge fund transactions.

08 June 2009

News/Fixed income and OTC derivatives

ICE Trust backers accused of freezing out rival CME-led clearing house

Major derivatives dealers have been accused of "filibustering" to protect their ogilopoly by withholding support from buy-side-friendly rivals to the InterContinental Exchange's credit default swaps clearing house.

02 June 2009

News/Fixed income and OTC derivatives

LCH.Clearnet to extend SwapClear to hedge funds and asset managers

LCH.Clearnet is moving to meet regulatory demands for improved risk management in the over-the-counter derivatives markets by extending its interest rate swap clearing service, SwapClear, to the broader buy-side trading community.

27 May 2009

News/Fixed income and OTC derivatives

Northern Trust adds Markit post-trade suite to OTC platform

Northern Trust is to strengthen its over-the-counter derivatives processing platform for third party clients with the addition of a suite of post-trade confirmation matching and reconciliation services from financial information outfit Markit.

26 May 2009

News/Fixed income and OTC derivatives

Japan to build CCP for OTC derivatives trading

Japan Securities Clearing Corporation (JSCC) has announced plans to develop a central clearing counterparty for interest rate swaps and credit default swaps.

22 May 2009

News/Fixed income and OTC derivatives

ICE adds RBS and readies for Europe launch: RBA calls for expansion of CDS clearing to Australia

IntercontinentalExchange has added Royal Bank of Scotland to its roster of clearing members and confirmed that it will be ready to launch its credit default swaps clearing counterparty in Europe by July.

20 May 2009

News/Fixed income and OTC derivatives

US regulatory reforms to drive automation in OTC trading

The US Treasury has proposed a series of regulatory reforms designed to improve transparency in over-the-counter derivative trading and encourage a market-wide shift to exchange-based electronic platforms.

14 May 2009

News/Fixed income and OTC derivatives

CDS clearing plans badly flawed say researchers

Proposals to reduce risk in the trading of credit default swaps through the introduction of central counterparty clearing are badly flawed, according to research conducted at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

22 April 2009

News/Fixed income and OTC derivatives

LCH.Clearnet recruits BarCap's Joe Reilly to lead SwapClear

LCH.Clearnet has recruited Joe Reilly from Barclays Capital to head up its SwapClear over-the-counter interest rate clearing unit.

07 April 2009

News/Fixed income and OTC derivatives

SocGen Securities Services deploys Misys Summit FT

Société Générale Securities Services (SGSS) has gone live with Misys' Summit FT treasury system to support its asset servicing and custody services business in Paris.

02 April 2009

News/Fixed income and OTC derivatives

Finextra weekly news review podcast

Visa takes action against service providers after data breaches, Dutch banks bid online for new customers, and the latest research on mobile banking and the Payments Services Directive - it's all in this week's news review podcast.

19 March 2009

News/Fixed income and OTC derivatives

Eurex in talks to sell CDS clearing stakes

Swiss-German derivatives exchange Eurex says it is in advanced talks to sell stakes in its forthcoming credit default swaps clearing house.

12 March 2009

News/Fixed income and OTC derivatives

TMX in talks to take minority stake in EDX; LSE to move derivatives platform to Sola trading engine

The London Stock Exchange is to port its EDX derivatives market to TMX Group's Sola Trading technology and is in negotiations with the Canadian group for the sale of a minority stake in EDX.

10 March 2009

News/Fixed income and OTC derivatives

MarketAxess scoops bid/offer list trading patent

Electronic fixed income network MarketAxess has been granted a US patent for its bid/offer list automated trading functionality.

10 March 2009

News/Fixed income and OTC derivatives

Legacy clearing threat to OTC derivatives warns State Street

Rising volumes of over-the-counter derivatives trades are threatening to swamp legacy clearing and settlement systems, warns State Street in a report that calls for a co-ordinated industry-wide effort to develop a new post-trade servicing regime for the industry.

03 March 2009

News/Fixed income and OTC derivatives

CESR calls for EU-based derivatives information repository

The Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR) is calling for the creation of a euro-centric repository of bilaterally-agreed credit derivatives, mirroring the DTCC's Trade Information Warehouse in the US.

27 February 2009

News/Fixed income and OTC derivatives

CDS dealers bow to pressure and commit to EU clearing counterparty

Nine of the leading dealer firms in the credit default swaps markets have committed to the use of central counterparty clearing for CDS in the European Union by end-July 2009.

19 February 2009

News/Fixed income and OTC derivatives

NYSE Euronext completes migration to Universal Trading Platform

NYSE Euronext has migrated trading of all European equities, including exchange-traded fund (ETF) products, listed on the company's Amsterdam, Brussels, Lisbon and Paris markets to its next-generation Universal Trading Platform from the pervious Nouveau Système de Cotation (NSC) platform.

17 February 2009

News/Fixed income and OTC derivatives

Finextra launches Innovation Showcase

Finextra has launched the Innovation Showcase, a new feature on Finextra.com highlighting the most innovative financial technology developments over the past 12 months. Across a broad range of categories it showcases technologies that demonstrate uniqueness and impact, clever ways of solving a problem and projects at the leading edge of new industry trends.

11 February 2009