Futures and options

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Eurex and Premialab bring quantitative investment strategies to the futures market

Eurex, Europe’s leading derivatives exchange, is bringing Quantitative Investment Strategies (QIS) to the futures market.

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Investa rolls out zero-commission options trading app

Investa, the UK’s first zero-commission options trading app, is now available to investors after an active soft launch where over 1400 trades were facilitated — putting what they believe is an under-utilised investment product in reach of on-the-go traders and more sophisticated investors.

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Allasso wins $3m investment to bring AI-ready analytics to options trading

Allasso, the fintech that brings data-backed, modern analytics to one intuitive interface for financial market professionals, has secured $3m in investment in its latest funding round led by Fuel Ventures.

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Kraken launches US regulated derivatives offering

Kraken, a technology platform built on crypto that unlocks access and reduces inefficiencies to drive financial freedom, today announced the launch of Kraken Derivatives US, a regulated US derivatives offering.

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TipRanks integrates with TradeStation Securities

TradeStation Securities, Inc. (“TradeStation Securities”), an award-winning†, self-clearing online brokerage firm for trading stocks, options, futures, and futures options, today announced its integration for equities and equities options trading* with TipRanks, a provider of retail investor tools powered by data-driven market research and analyst insights.

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Coinbase is working with Nodal Clear on using USDC as collateral for futures trading

Coinbase Derivatives and Nodal Clear are partnering to integrate USDC as collateral for US futures trading, working with the CFTC to bring this to market.

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InTick block matching platform goes live for Eurex and ICE feeds

InTick, the listed derivatives blocking network, today announced that its block matching platform is now live and facilitating the exchange of active futures block orders across its platform.

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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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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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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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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.