LIFE THROUGH A LENS?
Financial institutions are worried that regulators have failed to understand the impracticality of some of their proposals to clean-up the derivatives markets, and the fact that lawmakers are backing the proposals is prompting even more cause for concern. The ...
FROM DARK TO LIGHT
It appears that regulators continue to push for reform of the over the counter (OTC) derivatives market. In early February, European member of parliament, Werner Langen published a draft report on OTC derivatives reforms to be considered by the European Parli...
ON THE UPSIDE
All the signs are that South Korea’s relative position in the global economy will be even stronger as a result of the crisis. Of course, heavily tied into world trade, it had also been hit by the downturn, but the government’s prompt huge and growing stimulus ...
20:20 TERRY DUFFY
While some trace the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) story back to 2001 when the exchange took on corporation status, the real step up came in 2007 when it finally bought the Chicago Board of Trade and rapidly moved on to bring in NYMEX into its fold. “The C...
FUTURES PASS THE TEST
The extreme market volatility last autumn caused the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) to reassess and, in most cases, raise margins on their contracts, but underlying risk models never faltered. Investors are on notice that if volatility spikes, the margins m...
SWEET & SOUR
In August several big American food producers such as Kraft and Hershey wrote a dramatic letter to the US Secretary of Agriculture asking the government to ease import restrictions on the grounds that America was about to “run out of sugar supplies”. While the...
THE 2009 COMMODITIES ROUNDTABLE
Commodities: A hedge or diversification play?
CME GROUP KICKS OFF LATIN AMERICAN FUND MANAGER INCENTIVE PROGRAMME
CME Group, has launched a new Latin American Fund Manager Incentive Program (FMIP) that will enable registered Latin American-based funds to receive discounted trading fees for the electronic trading of CME, CBOT and NYMEX products, and is scheduled to begin O...
CME GROUP LAUNCHES LONG-TERM US TREASURY BOND FUTURES
CME Group, intends to launch Long-Term US Treasury Bond futures, or "Ultra" Treasury Bonds, beginning in early first quarter 2010. The new contract will be listed with, and subject to, the rules and regulations of the CBOT.
EUREX CLEARS FIRST SINGLE NAME CDS
Eurex Credit Clear improves market safety and integrity for OTC derivatives
KEEPING CONTROL OF ASSETS
Asset managers who want to improve their collateral management practices can either buy a software package and run it in-house or hire third-party service providers such as JP Morgan, BNYM or State Street to handle it for them but the buyside's new-found enthu...
CME'S NEW NEW PETROLEUM SWAP FUTURES CLEARING SERVICES
CME Group has launched clearing services for nine new petroleum swap futures contracts. Clearing will be available through CME ClearPort(®), a set of flexible clearing services open to over-the-counter (OTC) market
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