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News/Fixed income and OTC derivatives
Fixed income marketplace Tradeweb has agreed to acquire BondDesk, extending its business interests into retail fixed income and wealth management.
13 September 2013
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission is seeking public comment on further proposals to curb high-speed derivatives trading.
10 September 2013
Chi-X Europe co-founder and one-time COO Hirander Misra is setting up a new derivatives exchange group in London.
12 August 2013
CME Group's procedures for monitoring Exchange for Related Position (EFRP) transactions are "inadequate" and should be beefed up quickly, says the Commodity Futures Trading Commission,
05 August 2013
Capital markets tech firm Calypso has won a contract to provide the core clearing platform for a new central counterparty (CCP) for OTC derivatives created by a consortium of Chilean banks.
23 July 2013
EC regulators say that 13 investment banks, the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (Isda) and Markit breached antitrust rules by colluding to prevent exchanges from entering the credit derivatives business.
01 July 2013
The Financial Stability Board has mooted the creation of a central utility for sharing aggregated trade data, as evidence mounts that national jurisdictions are lagging in implementing OTC derivatives trading reforms.
19 April 2013
Bloomberg has filed a lawsuit against a US derivatives regulator over new margin rules that differentiate between swaps and futures.
17 April 2013
Nasdaq OMX has struck a deal to buy electronic US Treasuries trading platform eSpeed from BGC Partners for $750 million in cash.
02 April 2013
The European Commission is to extend an anti-trust investigation in to the market for credit default swaps to cover the activities of the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (Isda).
26 March 2013
A group of leading sell-side banks has set up a working group that will focus on the creation of an open industry standard protocol for client and trader enablement on electronic trading platforms.
New swaps data reporting rules have left the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) floundering in a sea of data, its computers crashing under the strain, claims one of the watchdog's own commissioners.
20 March 2013
New rules on the processing of derivatives contracts over exchange platforms are set to come into force in mid-March after being passed by the European Parliament.
08 February 2013
JPMorgan Chase has been sanctioned by US regulators for failures in its risk management operations after it lost more than $6.2 billion on a single credit derivatives trade.
15 January 2013
IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) has agreed an $8.2 billion deal to acquire Nyse Euronext in a stock-and-cash transaction.
20 December 2012
Fixed income exchange MarketAxess has agreed to acquire European post-trade services group Xtrakter from Euroclear for £26 million in cash.
02 November 2012
A quarter of financial institutions around the world are exiting businesses because of the impact of increased capital requirements, according to a survey by the Professional Risk Managers' International Association (Prmia).
09 October 2012
The CBOE Futures Exchange (CFE) is to establish a London hub and expand trading of its popular VIX contract to 24-hours in 2013.
07 September 2012
A Web portal for assigning Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) identifiers to firms involved in OTC derivatives trading has gone live.
21 August 2012
The Council of the European Union has adopted a regulation requiring financial firms to clear over-the-counter derivatives contracts through a central clearing counterparty and report them to trade repositories.
04 July 2012
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