Category: Exchanges

May 11, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Cboe to provide market and trade data to dxFeed Bookmap

Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (Nasdaq: CBOE) has announced that it is now providing its EDGX Depth real-time stock quote and trade information to dxFeed Bookmap, an innovative full order book pattern detection and analysis software. The EDGX Depth feed is a market data product from Cboe Global Markets that provides cost-effective, high-quality quote and trade…

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May 10, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

London Stock Exchange welcomes cybersecurity provider Avast

London Stock Exchange announced that it has welcomed global cybersecurity provider Avast to the Premium Segment of the Main Market. Raising $200 million in primary proceeds and $616.6 million in secondary proceeds, pre-greenshoe, with a valuation of $3.23 billion. Avast is the largest tech IPO across Europe in 2018 to date and one of the five…

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May 08, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

HKEX to offer MSCI Asia ex Japan index futures

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) announced that it plans to introduce MSCI All Country (AC) Asia ex Japan Net Total Return Index (MSCI AxJ) Futures, the first regional stock index futures contract for HKEX, on Monday, 11 June 2018, pending regulatory approval. HKEX’s MSCI AxJ Futures will be first futures contract traded on…

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May 08, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Dutch State Treasury Agency to clear IRS swaps via Eurex Clearing

The Dutch State Treasury Agency announced that it has decided to enable central clearing of euro denominated interest rate swaps via Eurex Clearing in Frankfurt for the State of the Netherlands. As Debt Management Office, the Dutch State Treasury Agency is exempt from the obligation to clear swaps through a Central Counterparty (CCP). However, the…

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May 08, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Barclays licenses two EURO iSTOXX 50 ESG Focus indices

STOXX Ltd., the operator of Deutsche Börse Group’s index business and a global provider of innovative and tradable index concepts, announced that it has licensed the EURO iSTOXX 50 ESG Focus Index and the EURO iSTOXX 50 ESG Focus GR Decrement 5% Index to the British bank Barclays as underlyings for the issuance of structured…

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May 08, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Moscow Exchange's FX Market turnover up 6% in April

Total trading volume across Moscow Exchange (MOEX)’s markets rose by 9.1% in April 2018 to RUB 77.4 trln, the exchange has announced. All main markets showed turnover growth: the Equity Market by 83.5%, the Bond Market by 33.2%, the Derivatives Market by 24.7%, the Money Market by 7.6% and the FX Market by 6.3%. The…

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May 07, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

'Geopolitical uncertainty' sends CME oil futures to record open interest

Derivatives marketplace operator CME Group Inc (NASDAQ:CME) has announced that WTI Light Sweet Crude Oil futures open interest reached a record 2,695,178 contracts on Friday, May 4, surpassing the previous record of 2,691,028 contracts set on November 10, 2017. Peter Keavey, CME Group Global Head of Energy said: Market participants are using WTI futures and…

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May 04, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Solactive launches new equity benchmark covering Australia

Solactive has just announced the release of the Solactive Australia 200 Index, a new benchmark tracking the performance of the 200 largest companies by market capitalization listed on the Australian Securities Exchange. With this new launch, Solactive expands its range of competitively-priced benchmarks and offers for the first time a broad-market index providing targeted exposure…

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