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Derivatives analytics platform Acuiti claims a flash rally in Euribor on the Intercontinental Exchange resulted in substantial losses for proprietary trading firms. -
Drew Shields, the chief technology officer at derivatives technology company Trading Technologies, has stood down.
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The Volcker rule is set to be tweaked, simplified and watered down, changing the section of the US’s Dodd-Frank regulations stopping banks from engaging in proprietary trading. Only banks with more than $20bn of trading assets and liabilities will face the fullest compliance programme, while rules over what is identified as prop trading have been weakened.
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The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission has removed press statements from its website amid allegations from Kraft Foods and Mondelēz Global that it breached the terms of a legal settlement.
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South Korea’s financial regulator is launching a probe into local sales of derivatives products linked to overseas interest rates amid allegations of miss-selling.
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LiquidityEdge, which operates an electronic marketplace for US Treasuries, could now look at offering a similar service in the European government bond market after its purchase by MarketAxess. The latter’s president, Chris Concannon, sees the pressure European banks face to cut costs as a boon for trading automation in the region.
