The Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) is pushing back on the provisional findings from the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority’s (CMA) in-depth investigation showing that ICE’s $650 million acquisition of London-based Trayport, a trading software provider, could reduce competition. According to Simon Polito, chair of the CMA’s inquiry, “We examined the merger’s competition risks and given the… Read More >>
New FIX Version Supports Nanosecond Connections
A version of the FIX electronic trading protocol that supports high-performance transactions and data feeds is officially launching via the FIX Trading Community standards body, in an effort to help securities firms keep up with high-speed hardware, software and network connections. The standards body is releasing “a standard, non-proprietary binary message encoding” upgrade, dubbed the… Read More >>
CFTC Issues Final Rule for Cleared Swaps Reporting
The CFTC reports that it has approved a final rule meant to bring “additional clarity” to existing cleared swaps reporting regulations and procedures. The rule codifies reporting obligations for counterparties and registered entities and improves the “efficiency of data collection and maintenance associated with the reporting,” the CFTC says. The commission’s own detailed analysis of… Read More >>
CME to Offer CCP Services in Europe
CME to Offer Clearing for Global Firms The Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. (CME) has gotten the approval of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) to operate in the European Union as central counterparty clearinghouse (CCP). The notice came as part of an ongoing update of approved CCPs based in third countries, according to ESMA… Read More >>
Collateral Management Ascends to the Cloud
A major provider of derivatives trading venues, CME Group and CloudMargin, a collateral management services provider, are offering CME Clearing and CME Clearing Europe clients a cloud-based option to facilitate collateral management. “This is a way to outsource the technology used to manage collateral,” says Karl Wyborn, managing director, global head of sales, CloudMargin, in… Read More >>
Markit, ISDA Move to Settle EU Probe
Markit, the U.K. data provider, and the International Swaps & Derivatives Association (ISDA), an industry trade group, have offered concessions in an effort to settle a European Union antitrust investigation into possible collusion in the credit default swaps (CDS) market, according to the European Commission. The Commission is seeking feedback from interested parties on the… Read More >>
Brexit Could Put U.K. Clearinghouses in Limbo
The Brexit wars are heating up in the U.K. as the European Referendum draws closer but it is still too early to call the outcome. In the meantime, President Obama lent support to the remain or stay-in campaign during his recent visit to the U.K. But the leave party is doing its level best to… Read More >>
CME to Close Outcry Options Trading in NYC
CME Group officials report that they will close the exchange company’s New York trading floor for outcry trading by the end of 2016 because of declining volumes for open outcry options. The affected venues are the Commodity Exchange (Comex), a designated contract market that offers products subject to Comex rules and regulations, and the New… Read More >>
ISDA Sets 2016 Credit Event Committees
ISDA Designates Groups to Oversee Credit Events The International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. (ISDA) has reported the 2016 composition of its five regional determinations committees (DCs), which are responsible for determining whether a “credit event” has occurred in the derivatives market. The ISDA defines a credit event as either a bankruptcy, an obligation acceleration,… Read More >>
BAE Profiles ‘World’s Most Dangerous Cybercriminals’
Six Types of Cybercriminal to Avoid BAE Systems, the London-based, multinational security company, recently released profiles of “six prominent types of cybercriminals” and detailed how they could hurt companies around the globe, officials say. Threat intelligence experts at BAE Systems have compiled a list, “The Unusual Suspects,” that has been created from “research that uncovers… Read More >>
