On April 22, the U.K.'s Financial Conduct Authority announced that it fined Merrill Lynch International £13.2 million ($20.5 million) for incorrectly reporting more than 35 million transactions and failing to report another 121,387 transactions between November 2007 and November 2014.
CONTINUE READINGCybersecurity risks and testing are a major concern of regulators and market participants. Experts at a Commodity Futures Trading Commission roundtable discuss the testing underway as well as practices to recover from cyber attacks.
CONTINUE READINGA diverse group of industry experts has drafted a comprehensive guide to good practices in automated trading.
CONTINUE READINGExchange-for-physical transactions have been custom-tailored over-the-counter products until now, but Euronext is about to change that.
CONTINUE READINGOn March 11, the Bank of England published its annual report on the supervision of financial market infrastructures, including payment systems, central counterparties and securities settlement systems.
CONTINUE READINGThe explosion in social media has created new ways to measure investor sentiment and turn that information into actionable intelligence about market direction. With this article, MarketVoice launches a series spotlighting companies with innovative financial technology.
CONTINUE READINGWashington, D.C.—June 9, 2015—Today, FIA Global, in cooperation with the law firms Linklaters and Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, announced an interactive tool to compare and assess the rules of central counterparties (CCPs) within the FIA CCP Risk Review™.
CONTINUE READINGAs the listed derivatives industry comes to terms with increased operational costs and regulatory constraints, this edition of InfoNet explores the critical role of the vendor in the market ecosystem.
CONTINUE READINGMartin Abbott, the former chief executive of the London Metal Exchange, was appointed as an independent non-executive director of Mitsui & Co. Commodity Risk Management, the London-based energy derivatives trading subsidiary of Mitsui & Co.
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