Tag: derivatives

April 02, 2014 BY Gerald Segal

CME Group: FX contracts average daily volume up 11.1% from Feb

CME’s FX futures volumes made a favorable increase in March compared to February's results CME Group, the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today announced that March 2014 volume averaged 14.1 million contracts per day, up 13 percent compared with March 2013.  Total volume for March 2014 was more than 295 million contracts, of…

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February 24, 2014 BY Gerald Segal

EU seeks power to revive a scaled back Transaction Tax

Another opportunity for the UK to solidify its position as the European financial center As a coalition of 11 Euro Zone member countries is struggling to introduce a new levy on financial products transactions and it is becoming increasingly clear that the division on the issue is more widespread than originally thought. While The Netherlands, UK, Sweden…

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