Derivatives expert John P. Needham, president of Needham Consulting, alerted us more than a year ago at Financial Technology Forum’s DerivOps Chicago conference in April 2014 to the fact that 10 futures commission merchants (FCMs) are handling 75 percent of U.S. customer segregated funds…
FTF Panelists Applaud SEF Package Trade Rule Relief
Operations teams supporting derivatives trading at financial services firms across the nation breathed a collective sigh of relief Wednesday night, when CFTC Chairman Timothy Massad announced his agency will postpone rules that would force market participants to conduct package trades electronically via swap execution facilities (SEFs). Meanwhile, panelists at FTF’s DerivOps New York event on… Read More >>
