Exchanges
What price regulatory compliance?
The US banking industry has been inundated with a set of mandatory changes such as Basel II, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the Patriot Act, which, responded to individually, represent a significant portion of an organisation's change budget. Dai Bedford,…
Geopolitical futures: The politics of betting
Using markets to forecast political events may not be as strange an idea as it seemed in July, when a terrorism futures scheme collapsed. But there is still scepticism as to whether such an approach would be ethical or effective.
Etrade adds CME foreign exchange futures
Retail brokerage Etrade has added foreign exchange futures to its equities trading platform, through a link with the Chicago Mercantile Exchange’s Globex platform. This brings the total number of futures contracts available via Etrade to eight.
ISE starts trading index options
New York-based electronic equity options market, the International Securities Exchange (ISE), has started offering US index options.
EEX head calls for equal treatment of physical forwards
Hans-Bern Menzel, chairman of Leipzig-based European Energy Exchange (EEX), today called for the equal treatment of physical forward and financial future commodity contracts under the EU Investment Services Directive (ISD).
CFTC to sue AEP over false gas trades
Ohio-based utility American Electric Power (AEP) has been charged with reporting 2,800 false natural gas trades to energy price index companies, such as Platts, and attempting to manipulate natural gas prices. The charges, levied by the US Commodity…
Clearing Bank Hannover goes into liquidation
Clearing Bank Hannover (CBH), which offered clearing services for electricity and commodity traders, has gone into liquidation and returned its banking licence to BaFin – Germany’s financial regulator.
Any last words?
CP3 comments
Bill of rights
Bondholder ultimatum
Excess baggage
Gerling
Utilities: stoking the flames
Credit of the month
Taxing times
Eurobonds
A closer look at risk
Buy-side systems
News in brief
New angles
Getting the ball rolling
Securitisation
Basel II is a key driver for real-time info
TECHNOLOGY BRIEFS
Inflation trading comes of age
Interest rates
US broker buys Measurisk assets
New angles
Courting success
Profile
Back in the big league
bankruptcy
Creditors strike back
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