Category: Financial Services

The plan is expected to support the EU’s Savings and Investments Union (SIU) goals by enabling cross-border market access, fostering competition, and encouraging innovation.  It builds on Euroclear’s model, which combines its international central securities depository (Euroclear Bank) with six local CSDs. Valérie Urbain, CEO of Euroclear, said: “The key to more liquid and effective…

The new contracts give international institutional investors access to South Korea’s equity market, now accounting for 10.73% of the MSCI Emerging Markets Index and ranking as its fourth-largest country component. Eurex stated that it is now the only derivatives exchange outside Korea to offer access to a Korean equity index, aiming to improve margin efficiency…

The surge was fuelled by all-time highs in both the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) and Asia Pacific (APAC) regions, reflecting rising global demand for risk management tools. EMEA ADV reached 6.7 million contracts, up 15% from Q2 last year. Growth was led by Equity Index contracts, which rose 43%, followed by Energy up…

The exchange also recorded an average daily volume of 10 million contracts, around 6 million of which were commodity-related. ICE’s energy markets led the charge, with a record 673.4 million energy contracts traded. Oil futures and options accounted for 400.8 million contracts, while natural gas trading reached 250.8 million. Environmental markets also saw growth, hitting…

The group is now evaluating the return of banking licences held by two of its key subsidiaries: Eurex Clearing AG and Clearstream Banking AG.  The move comes after amendments to the European Central Bank’s Target guideline and changes to the Central Securities Depositories Regulation (CSDR Refit). Eurex Clearing, a major central counterparty (CCP) in the…

The platform, scheduled to go live on 8 September 2025 pending regulatory approval, will operate within Cboe’s existing Lit order book. Cboe explained that retail investors using participating brokers will be able to execute trades at or better than the European Best Bid and Offer (EBBO) without incurring fees.  The service will cover more than…

The move is said to mark a significant step toward more customisable and efficient investment solutions for asset managers. The initiative involved tokenising euro- and Swiss franc-denominated corporate bonds held in custody at SIX SIS, before allocating fractional portions to portfolios managed by Pictet Asset Management.  The assets were processed via the SDX platform, SIX’s…