March 14, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

TriOptima compression surpasses $750 trillion in eliminated notional principal

Post trade infrastructure provider TriOptima, part of ICAP plc (LON:IAP), announces today that market participants have eliminated more than $750 trillion in notional principal outstanding via its multilateral compression service for OTC derivatives triReduce. Since the launch of the service in 2003, over 210 financial institutions have participated in this risk-reducing achievement which includes compression…

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March 14, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

TAIFEX sees RMB futures volumes tumble in February 2016

Taiwan Futures Exchange (TAIFEX) has just published its operating metrics for February 2016, with overall trading volumes, and yuan futures volumes in particular, decreasing in monthly terms. Overall trading volumes at the Exchange amounted to 13,258,237 contracts, down 52.5% from the 28,001,613 contracts traded in January 2016. On the brighter side, the annual comparison was…

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March 14, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

Chinese regulator promises no relaunch of circuit breaker mechanism in the next years

After turbulence rattled Chinese stock market early this year, first forcing the implementation and then the suspension of a circuit breaker mechanism, the nation's securities regulator has updated on the potential use of the controversial mechanism. Liu Shiyu, Chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC), was quoted by Xinhua as saying that China will not…

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March 14, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

Japanese OTC Forex volumes rise 11.8% MoM in February 2016

The Financial Futures Association of Japan (FFAJ) has just published the monthly operating metrics of its members that offer Forex and binary options trading over the counter for February 2016. While OTC Forex volumes had another strong month, binary options volumes staged a double-digit drop on a monthly basis. As usual, we first examine the…

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March 14, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

Brokers and FCMs can now white label MarketDelta Cloud

MarketDelta, a Chicago-based trading software company, has made available white labeling of its MarketDelta Cloud, a comprehensive trading and charting solution for futures traders. The company offers brokers and futures commission merchants (FCMs) to white label MarketDelta Cloud. MarketDelta promises that it can custom tailor the solution in less than a week (start to finish)…

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March 14, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

SBI Holdings joins blockchain consortium R3

Shortly after SBI Holdings Inc (TYO:8473) inked a multi-million dollar investment deal with Bitcoin exchange Kraken, the Japanese financial conglomerate announces another step into the world of blockchain. SBI Holdings today announces that it will join blockchain consortium R3, led by US fintech company R3 CEV LLC. The consortium is one of the world’s largest…

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