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Supporters claim smart derivative contracts remove need for central counterparties
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Natixis has become the first bank to introduce a green weighting factor to its internal capital model, so that the way it prices loans is skewed to favour environmentally sound assets and disadvantage polluting ones. The ground-breaking move brings to fruition an 18 month project and anticipates what some believe may one day be demanded by regulators. -
Crypto venture Bakkt launched its long-awaited bitcoin futures on Monday, the first physically delivered cryptocurrency contracts to be traded on a federally regulated US exchange. Although trading in its first week has been “tepid”, market participants are expecting the contracts to compete with leader CME’s own bitcoin futures.
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Trading turnover of FX swaps has increased by more than a third to $3.3tr a day during the past three years, outpacing growth in spot markets, according to the Bank of International Settlements’ triennial survey of the global FX market, released this week.
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The deadline for derivatives and debt market participants to move their financial instruments from an Ibor reference rate to an alternative is approaching but there are still fears in the industries of complacency about the migration.
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Michael Zollweg is standing down as head of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and Eurex Germanys' trading surveillance office, the body that supervises trading on both bourses.
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The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission has appointed Dorothy DeWitt to lead its market oversight division.
