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2021 M&A - Deals focus on trading tech, digital assets, post-trade solutions
Big capital raises from up-and-coming firms alongside some high-profile mergers tell the story of an evolving industry, with trends in trading technology and digital assets at the forefront.
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Viewpoint – Sending some love to the FCM community
FCMs are tremendously important to vibrant and safe cleared derivatives markets, and the global economy as a whole. They connect customers to our markets – particularly commercial end-users and hedgers – to provide liquidity and assist with price discovery.
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On a mission: Keith Todd, CEO of Trading Technologies
Keith Todd, new chief executive of Trading Technologies, discusses the company’s future after its acquisition by 7RIDGE
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People news - January/February 2022
Appointments, promotions and other people news in the derivatives industry
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MarketVoice Podcast - The quietly successful LIBOR transition
Derivatives markets have long been warned the cessation of certain LIBOR panels after December 31, 2021. And thankfully, that date has come and gone without incident. Steve Hamilton, ICE's global head of financial derivatives, talks with FIA about the hard work of preparing for this moment and prospects for future liquidity in risk-free rates including SONIA.
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Crypto hearing focuses on need for US regulatory certainty, CFTC expertise
The US Senate Agriculture Committee held a hearing titled "Examining Digital Assets: Risks, Regulation, and Innovation" on 9 February, where discussion centered in large part on the best way to provide regulatory certainty for emerging digital asset markets.
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Roaring into the Year of the Tiger!
Sponsored Content: JPX looks ahead to cash market restructuring, derivatives, and fixed income
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FCMs explore ways to accept crypto as collateral
Cash-settled futures on bitcoin have been a smash success for CME, but they sometimes diverge from prices in the spot market. That has spurred interest in physically delivered contracts. Much like in the classic agricultural futures markets, the buyers and sellers of these contracts are obligated to exchange the underlying cryptocurrency when the contract expires. This mechanism effectively forces the spot and futures prices to converge at settlement.
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People news – December/January 2022
Appointments, promotions and other people news in the derivatives industry
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Nasdaq Board Diversity Rule "extremely powerful," say legal experts
Nasdaq’s Board Diversity Rule, which requires its listed companies to have at least two diverse board members or explain why they do not, is "extremely powerful" and a critical step on the path to transformational change, said Ben Wilson, chairman of law firm Beveridge & Diamond on a webinar hosted by the D.C. Bar Corporate, Finance and Securities Law Community.
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