During the last week of April, Eurex Clearing, LCH Swapclear and CME have simulated the default of a major participant – based on the Brexit market conditions as of 24 June 2016. At Eurex Clearing, the defaulted member’s portfolio represented one of the largest clearing members with open positions in listed equity (index) derivatives, pending…
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The European Energy Exchange (EEX) and IncubEx have announced a partnership to build and improve liquidity in environmental and other related contracts. In this framework, the partners aim to increase the number of active participants at the exchange and to create a global trading network. The cooperation involves existing environmental products and aims to continuously…
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The Regulatory Reporting Hub of Deutsche Börse Group announced that has launched a partnership with Risk Focus and its software subsidiary, RegTek.Solutions, headquartered in New York. Risk Focus will provide key system components for the Regulatory Reporting Hub’s OTC Trade Reporting solution, including RegTek.Solutions’ Validate.Trade product. The functionality of the components provided by Risk Focus…
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Continuing the string of flat to slightly-down FX trading volumes at leading eFX platforms we’ve seen for the month of July, multibank FX aggregation service FXSpotStream has reported that volumes on its system were down 14% MoM, coming in at $17.6 billion ADV. We'd note that June was a near-record month at FXSpotStream, with ADV…
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Fiserv, Inc. (NASDAQ: FISV), a global provider of financial services technology solutions, announced today that it has acquired the assets of PCLender, LLC, a next generation enterprise internet-based mortgage software and mortgage lending technology solutions company. This acquisition will enhance the Fiserv suite of mortgage origination services, which enable Fiserv clients to deliver the experience…
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Staff at the Bank of England will today (Tuesday 1 August) start a three day strike at the bank. Members of the UK’s largest union, Unite, are holding a demonstration outside the bank’s London office at 8.15 am today to mark the start of a historic strike over pay. The Labour shadow chancellor of the…
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Thomson Reuters Corp (NYSE:TRI) has published their Forex volume metrics for June 2017, with spot FX volumes rising to $93 billion, up 9.4% MoM from May’s $85 billion. This was the platform's best performing month since March for spot volumes (see chart above) when the US dollar lost a bit of steam due to a Dovish Fed and…
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Japan Exchange Group just released its trading overview in July 2017. Cash Equity Market In July 2017, the daily average trading value for the TSE 1st Section (domestic common stocks) was JPY 2.5582 trillion. In the ETF market, monthly trading value was JPY 2.3482 trillion. Derivatives Market In July 2017, total derivatives trading volume was…
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Neptune, the Fixed Income network for real-time “axe” indications, just announced the addition of Rabobank (Rabo) and TD Securities “TD” to its network and board. Rabo and TD become the 23rd and 24th participating banks on the network. The Neptune network provides a venue for investors to consume the highest quality bond axes/inventory data from…
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The Tokyo Financial Exchange just released its volumes report for the month of July 2017. The trading volume of Three-month Euroyen futures was 149,021 ( + 4.2% MoM / - 11.2% YoY ) and its average daily volume was 7,451. The total trading volume of FX Daily Futures contracts (Click 365) was 2,307,283 ( -…
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