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Amex and Iverson to monitor ETFs

Iverson Financial has developed a new service, Amex ETF Monitor (AEM), for the American Stock Exchange as part of a two-month-old joint partnership agreement, RIskNews ' sister publication Inside Market Data has learned. Amex ETF Monitor is a published…

Economist questions banks’ approach to VAR analysis

Bank risk managers must use more intra-day price data – also referred to as high-frequency data – to improve their value-at-risk analyses, according to Richard Olsen, an economist and founder of Zurich-based hedge fund and risk services company Olsen.

Currenex and RCP launch buy-side interface

Global online currency exchange Currenex and UK-based straight-through processing (STP) specialist RCP Consultants have developed an interface that offers immediate connectivity between Currenex’s FX trading system and many treasury and portfolio…

Bank race for CLS clients

The world’s top FX banks are racing against time – and each other – to sign up a potential 2,000 third-party banks and institutions as clients for a new forex settlement system, Continuous Linked Settlement (CLS).

Deutsche Bank Americas credit derivatives head moves to Asia

Alejandro Brockmann, head of credit derivatives for the Americas at Deutsche Bank in New York, has now been made head of the bank's emerging markets trading and integrated credit trading for Asia. He will officially take on his new Singapore-based role…

NetRisk’s Ceske heads to GE Capital

Rob Ceske, head of business development at NetRisk and its subsidiary OpVantage, has left the company to take on a new role at GE Captial. Ceske’s departure from the Connecticut-based risk management company comes as it is being acquired by Fitch Risk…

Evolution Markets launches weather desk

New York-based environmental and energy broker Evolution Markets has returned to the weather derivatives sector with the launch of a weather desk, six years after it brokered its first over-the-counter weather deal.

Aquila finally buries energy trading business

Missouri-based energy trader Aquila today said that it has put the lid on the coffin of its energy trading division, following almost two months of speculation. In June, Aquila unveiled plans to wind down its trading book, but said it was looking for a…

Macquarie to offer exchange-traded ELIs in HK by month-end

Australia’s Macquarie Bank is looking at listing Equity Linked Instruments (ELIs) on the Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing (HKEx) by the end of August, according to Matthew Long, Macquarie's Hong Kong-based associate director for equity derivatives sales.

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