The global Swift financial messaging cooperative has completed a collaborative “sandbox experiment” testing the interoperability of an interlinking solution for central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) intended to “simplify and speed up trade flows, unlock growth in tokenized securities markets, and enable efficient FX settlement,” officials say. CBDCs are the digital currencies likely to be issued… Read More >>
Liquidity Fragmentation Slams Options Market Makers: Report
Market makers working in U.S. listed options markets say that while they have seen significant structural improvements such as exchanges improving risk protection capabilities, “the proliferation of options exchanges and inherent fragmentation of liquidity” have become major challenges, according to a new report from Burton-Taylor International Consulting. Liquidity fragmentation is the result of the proliferation of exchanges… Read More >>
