Futures and options

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Coinbase agrees $2.9bn deal to buy crypto options exchange Deribit

Coinbase has boosted its derivatives business by agreeing to buy crypto options exchange Deribit for $2.9 billion.

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IFX Payments reaches agreement in principle to acquire Argentex Group

Today, alternative banking partner IFX Payments announces they have reached an agreement in principle to acquire Argentex Group PLC, a publicly listed FX options and electronic money institution, bringing together two established players in the UK Payments and FX space.

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CME Group preps XRP futures

CME Group, the world's leading derivatives marketplace, today announced plans to launch XRP futures on May 19, pending regulatory review. Market participants will have the choice to trade both a micro-sized contract (2,500 XRP) and a larger-sized contract (50,000 XRP).

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R.J. O’Brien agrees to acquisition by StoneX Group

R.J. O’Brien & Associates (RJO), the oldest futures brokerage and clearing firm in the United States, announced today that its parent company has reached a definitive agreement with StoneX Group Inc. (NASDAQ: SNEX), to merge all of RJO’s global businesses into StoneX, subject to regulatory approvals and customary closing conditions.

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Combating Cyber Threats: The role of AI, Partnerships and Education

Joining the FinextraTV studio, Michele Centemero, EVP, Regional Services Lead, Mastercard, outlined the stark position the world is in when it comes to the cybersecurity threat we face. As technology increases, it becomes both the problem and the solution, Centemero discusses what the landscape currently looks like and how education and partnership are key to heading in the right direction.

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HSBC joins FIA Tech ownership consortium

FIA Tech, a leading futures industry technology provider, today announced that HSBC has joined its ownership consortium.

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Miax Futures selects ION for new trading platform

ION, a global leader in trading and workflow automation software, high-value analytics and insights, and strategic consulting to financial institutions, central banks, governments, and corporate organizations, will support connectivity to the new MIAX Futures™ matching engine, MIAX Futures Onyx (Onyx).

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What Does a Reimagined Banking World Look Like?

In this FinextraTV interview, Saraswathy Parthasarathy, COO, Universal Banking, Finastra, opines on how technology is influencing and driving a reimagined banking world. We are not on the brink of a new era of financial services: the future is already here. According to Parthasarathy, we are living in a world where a customer-centric approach is the only way forward, financial products are integrated seamlessly into our lives and banking is no longer a separate service – it is value-based and can now be done on the go, enabling banks to keep up with changing customer preferences.

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Kraken to acquire retail futures platform Ninja Trader for $1.5 billion

Kraken, one of the longest-standing, most liquid and secure crypto platforms serving more than 15 million clients globally, has entered into an agreement to acquire NinjaTrader, the leading U.S. retail futures trading platform, for $1.5 billion, subject to certain purchase price adjustments.

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FIA Tech extends brokerage settlement platform to block trading

FIA Tech, a leading futures industry technology provider, today announced that it has added support for block traded futures and options to its settlement platform Atlantis, and is live with buyside, brokers and clearing firms on the expanded service.

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Cboe Canada completes tech migration

Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (Cboe: CBOE), the world's leading derivatives and securities exchange network, today announced it successfully migrated Cboe Canada's NEO-L, NEO-N, and NEO-D trading books (collectively, the NEO Trading Platform) to Cboe TitaniumSM on March 3.

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Trading Technologies to provide connectivity to new MIAX Futures Onyx matching engine

Trading Technologies International, Inc. (TT), a global capital markets technology platform services provider, announced that it will deliver day-one connectivity to the MIAX Futures Exchange’s (MIAX Futures™) new matching engine, MIAX Futures Onyx (Onyx), through the TT® platform.

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CQG to provide order routing network for Robinhood

CQG, a leading global provider of high-performance technology solutions for market makers, traders, brokers, commercial hedgers and exchanges, and Robinhood Derivatives LLC (“Robinhood”) (NASDAQ: HOOD), announced today that they have partnered to use CQG’s professional-grade infrastructure to handle order routing for Robinhood Derivatives’ futures customer orders.

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Jamie Philip, Emanuel Kuce Radis and Scott Harrison join InTick advisory board

InTick, the listed derivatives blocking network, today announced the appointments of ex-JP Morgan EMEA Head of Future and Options Sales Trading Jamie Philip, CTPO and technology entrepreneur Emanuel Kuce Radis, and Director of AI and Analytics for Banking and Financial Services at Cognizant, Scott Harrison to its Strategic Advisory Board.

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FIA Tech Trade Data Network goes live

FIA Tech, a leading technology provider in the futures industry, today announced that its Trade Data Network is now live with real time fee and commission matching, reconciliation and resolution, allowing the buyside complete transparency into one of the biggest sources of operational frustration for the exchange traded derivatives industry.

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The Impact of Political Change on Blockchain Integration

Miles Paschini, CEO, FV bank joins FinextraTV in the virtual studio to discuss the integration of blockchain into traditional banking, its misconceptions and how recent political changes might impact its future.

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Robinhood delivers options trading for UK investors

At Robinhood, we’re committed to providing our customers with the tools they need to navigate the financial markets, no matter where they are.

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CME Group futures to launch on Robinhood

CME Group, the world's leading derivatives marketplace, and Robinhood Derivatives, LLC ('Robinhood'), today announced that some of CME Group's most popular futures products have started rolling out on the Robinhood mobile app.

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Euronext to acquire Nasdaq’s Nordic power futures business

Euronext (Euronext: ENX), the leading European capital market infrastructure, and Nasdaq (Nasdaq: NDAQ), a leading transatlantic market operator and global technology company, today announced the signing of a binding agreement under which Euronext will acquire Nasdaq’s Nordic power futures business, subject to receipt of applicable regulatory approvals.

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How CES Informs U.S. Bank's Continuous Innovation

Attending CES in Las Vegas, Don Relyea, Chief Innovation Officer, U.S. Bank, spoke to FinextraTV about why an electronics show like CES is so instrumental to banking. As well as noting the increase in financial firms attending, Relyea describes how technological innovation will intersect with the future of banking and financial services in 2025.