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Credit derivatives majors form data alliance
Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank and JP Morgan Chase have launched a credit derivatives market data scrubbing and sharing project meant to head off disputes among market participants over the terms of their contracts.
IPE pulls ‘premature’ power contract
London’s International Petroleum Exchange (IPE) has suspended trading on its electricity futures contract. The instrument, which has traded only 70 lots since its launch in March last year and nothing since the five lots it traded in January, has…
ICE aims to sell energy and metals market data
The Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the Atlanta-based electronic commodity and derivatives market, aims to sell price data and other information services to the energy and metals markets.
Korea drives Asian option growth
Turnover in equity index contracts rose by 40% at Asian exchanges in the fourth quarter of last year, according to the latest quarterly report from the Bank for International Settlements (BIS). The Switzerland-based banking body pointed to the rapid…
Spike Trading signs with patsystems
Spike Trading, a Chicago-based supplier of clearing and support services to floor-based traders, has contracted independent software vendor patsystems, to provide it with J-Trader, the company’s online derivatives trading platform.
Exchange-traded derivatives soaring, says BIS
The aggregate turnover of exchange-traded derivatives contracts reached a new record in the fourth quarter of 2001, said the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) in its latest quarterly review.
Ascher named chief executive officer of Nasdaq Liffe Markets
Nasdaq Liffe Markets (NQLX), the electronic exchange joint venture by Liffe and Nasdaq launched in March 2001, has appointed Thomas Ascher as chief executive officer. Ascher will be responsible for the strategic, long-term vision and operations of NQLX,…
Malaysia to launch bond futures contract
Malaysia Derivatives Exchange (MDEX) has announced that it will launch a five-year government bond futures contract at the end of March, the first such contract to be issued in Malaysia.
HKEx cuts derivatives fees in competitiveness drive
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEx) has proposed a reduction in fees for its listed derivatives products, as part of a drive to improve the competitiveness of the exchange and attract greater numbers of overseas investors.
Merchants’ Exchange expands into energy futures
The Merchants’ Exchange, the tiny St Louis-based independent trying to make a niche for itself in electronic commodity derivatives trading, is to list six new energy futures contracts.
BNL plans weather desk for Italy
Rome-based Banca Nazionale del Lavoro (BNL) is planning to set up a weather derivatives desk, which could add to the recent thrust of new players in the weather risk market. BNL hopes to establish the desk, specifically for the Italian market, by the…
Liffe adds to stock futures line-up
The London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange (Liffe) will list a further 22 European universal stock futures from April 18 2002. From that date, a total of 118 universal stock futures will be available on blue-chip stocks from 12…
Bourse de Montréal reaches out to US market
Bourse de Montréal has obtained approval from the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to offer US dealers and brokers access to its electronic trading platform, the Montréal Automated System (Sam), for trading futures contracts and options on…
IKB chooses Trema’s Finance KIT
Trema, a Stockholm-based financial services IT vendor and management consultancy whose clients include the European Central Bank, Deutsche Bundesbank and the Czech Republic’s ING Investment Management today announced that IKB Deutsche Industriebank had…
BHP Billiton buys into weatherXchange
Anglo-Australian mining giant BHP Billiton has bought a 7.5% stake in weatherXchange, an online weather derivatives data service, set up by the UK’s Meteorological Office and London-based Umbrella Brokers in June last year. BHP Billiton has an option to…
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