Eurex adds new factor futures to its equity index segment LeapRate

March 31, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Eurex adds new factor futures to its equity index segment

Both part of Deutsche Börse Group, Eurex and Qontigo, have teamed up to offer factor investors an easy, transparent and cost-efficient alternative to trading the underlying equities or using OTC instruments. Stephan Flaegel, Global Head of Indices and Benchmarks, Qontigo said: Our STOXX Industry Neutral Ax Factor Indices suite relies on commercially accepted and academically…

March 26, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Eurex to expand Total Return Futures on STOXX indices

The additional STOXX TRFs are appealing to the banks because of their need to hedge their structured products with underlying equities. The advantage of Eurex’s Total Return Futures is that they synthetically replicate the returns of the underlying index equities without the need to own the shares. Randolf Roth, Member of the Executive Board at…

March 17, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

SIX registers significant growth in operating income

The announcement said: The high level of trading activity on the exchanges boosted the contribution from the Securities & Exchanges business unit (+11.7%), supported by the fact that SIX enjoyed a market share of almost 100% in the trading of Swiss equities, with EU equivalence remaining suspended. The Group also highlighted the contribution of the…

March 15, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

HKEX to implement VCM and POS enhancements in derivatives market

Additionally, a random cutoff mechanism is set to be introduced to the POS and pre-open allocation session to all relevant products in the derivatives market. This will include both morning and afternoon sessions. These changes will be implemented in order to prevent the chances of gaming strategies occurring when manipulating the Calculated Opening Price at…

March 10, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

SGX reports FX Futures Volume rise in February 2021

The exchange also reported a jump in FTSE China A50 Index Futures DAV and FTSE Taiwan Index Futures DAV with 485,141 contracts and 104,415 contracts in February, respectively. SGX also registered a surge in its commodities business. Forward freight agreement (FFA) traded volume surged 80% YoY with 150,601 contracts. Petrochemical derivatives and Paraxylene traded volumes…

March 08, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Eurex traded contracts increase 9.5%MoM in February to 142 million

Eurex Repo posted a 29.8% MoM rise in GC Pooling, and 47.3% MoM increase in Repo markets. Feb-21 Jan-21 MoM Change Financial derivatives: Traded contracts Eurex Exchange European equity index derivatives (million) 61.7 61.8 -0.16% European interest rate derivatives (million) 55.5 43.6 27.29% European equity derivatives (million) 24.5 23.9 2.51% Total (million) 142.0 129.5 9.65%…

March 08, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

LSEG reports £2.1 billion revenue in 2020

Dividend distribution saw a full-year increase of 7%, reaching 75.0 pence per share. This reflects a positive performance and poised position for LSEG, although total revenue from capital markets remained constant at £427 million, and technology sales decreased by 7% to £61 million. Operating profits on an adjusted basis reached a 5% annual increase to…

March 05, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

MOEX sees 30.9% jump in Fees and Commission for the year

Yury Denisov, Chief Executive Officer of Moscow Exchange, commented: Despite the pandemic, the last year was a very successful one for Moscow Exchange and the Russian financial market as a whole. Russian businesses raised in excess of RUB 4 trillion from institutional and private investors via the issuance of equities and bonds on MOEX. By…

March 04, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Cboe Global FX up 6%MoM in February

Trading Volume for Current Month Year-To-Date February February % January % % 2021 2020 Chg 2021 Chg 2021 2020 Chg OPTIONS VOLUME (contracts, thousands) Year-To-Date Trading Days 19 19 19 38 40 Total Volume 249,325 209,552 19.0% 257,900 -3.3% 507,225 401,970 26.2% Total ADV 13,122 11,029 19.0% 13,574 -3.3% 13,348 10,049 32.8% FUTURES VOLUME…

March 03, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

MOEX trading volumes grow by 12.8% MoM to RUB 72.1 trillion in February

Derivatives Market Derivatives Market volumes increased by 3.5% MoM to RUB 12.0 trillion (January 2021: RUB 11.6 trillion) or 162.2 million contracts (January 2021: 158.8 million), of which 158.3 million contracts were futures and 3.9 million contracts were options. ADTV was RUB 599.9 billion (January 2021: RUB 612.5 billion). Open interest at the end of…

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