SADLY, IT IS MORE COMMON than not to be the victim of a cyber attack.
CONTINUE READINGR.J. O’Brien and Associates, the largest non-bank futures clearing firm in the U.S., announced on July 23 that its U.K. affiliate has been approved as a clearing member of the London Metal Exchange.
CONTINUE READINGCME Group is strengthening its already powerful position in equity derivatives through an ambitious partnership with FTSE Russell, the index services arm of the London Stock Exchange Group.
CONTINUE READINGCommodity market participants raise concerns that Europe’s new rules to implement MiFID will impact their ability to trade in commodity derivatives.
CONTINUE READINGTHE LONDON METAL Exchange is embarking on arguably its most ambitious program of change ever as it steps up plans to boost participation and enhance liquidity in the world’s largest metals market.
CONTINUE READINGFIA, FIA PTG and FIA EPTA wrote to the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) on 11 September 2015 setting out their views on third country firms engaged in dealing exclusively on own account or providing services/performing investment activities outside the EU to clients outside the EU when accessing European markets through direct membership of DEA under MiFID II.
CONTINUE READINGThe CFTC’s Division of Market Oversight held a public roundtable on July 15 to discuss the “made available for trade” process for determining which swaps should be subject to the CFTC’s mandatory trading requirements.
CONTINUE READINGOn June 8 FIA Europe published a review of the cumulative effect of European derivatives reform, setting out the core issues and offering potential solutions to encourage further debate.
CONTINUE READINGNasdaq is moving its primary data center in Scandinavia to a new location just outside Stockholm.
CONTINUE READINGNovaSparks, a company that specializes in offering low-latency market data through field-programmable gate array technology, is now linked to the Montreal Exchange.
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