Latest CME Group News: Finextra Research

CME Group vows to tackle loophole being tapped by HFT firms

CME Group says that it is working to close the time gap that sometimes exists between customers receiving trade confirmations and the information appearing in public data feeds after the Wall Street Journal reported that high-speed traders are exploiting the lag.

01 May 2013

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CME Group blames bug for swaps data leak

CME Group says that a software bug at its swaps data repository earlier this month allowed some traders to see confidential details on hundreds of transactions.

23 April 2013

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Nasdaq OMX agrees eSpeed acquisition

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

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CME to challenge CFTC suit over information leak

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is suing CME-owned trading venue the New York Mercantile Exchange and two former employees for passing on confidential customer trading data to an outside broker.

22 February 2013

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DTCC ponders legal action over swaps trade data rules

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) is threatening to sue a US regulator over how rival CME Group is being allowed to handle derivatives trading data.

18 January 2013

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Former CME software engineer pleads guilty to code theft

A former senior software engineer at CME Group has admitted to stealing source code from the Chicago-based exchange operator at the same time as he was working to boost the technological performance of a Chinese bourse.

20 September 2012

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CME to set up European derivatives exchange

CME Group, operator of the world's largest futures exchange, has applied to the Financial Services Authority to establish a European derivatives market based in London.

20 August 2012

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ICE and HKEx go head-to-head in battle for LME

IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) and Hong Kong Exchange and Clearing (HKEx) are set to go head-to-head in the race to acquire the London Metal Exchange (LME) after the Chicago Mercantile Exchange followed Nyse Euronext in being eliminated from the bidding for the 140-year old metals market.

22 May 2012