Latest credit derivatives news

• Oz regulator goes in to bat for retail buyers over CFDs

  

  Australia’s financial regulator has proposed a ban on the sale of binary options to retail clients along with restrictions on the sale of contracts for difference.

  • 22 Aug 2019

• Shields down as TT top dog departs

  Drew Shields, the chief technology officer at derivatives technology company Trading Technologies, has stood down.

  • 21 Aug 2019

• MarketAxess’s new buy targets SSA trading

  

  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.

  • 15 Aug 2019

• TP ICAP appoints EMEA CEO

  

  TP ICAP has appointed Michel Planquart as regional CEO for EMEA, giving him oversight of risk and governance for the region.

  • 15 Aug 2019

• Bloomberg bolsters reg reporting product with RegTek buy

  

  Bloomberg has acquired regulatory consultancy and technology company RegTek Solutions as it pushes to strengthen its regulatory reporting product.

  • 14 Aug 2019

• ING creates sustainability derivative

  

  ING has launched the world’s first sustainability improvement derivative, a derivative with a credit spread that is linked to sustainability performance. The trade comes amid growing demand for environmental, social and governance derivatives products.

  • 13 Aug 2019

• CCPs push back on default recommendations

  

  The Global Association of Central Counterparties (CCP12) has warned against further regulation of default management auctions and the risk of adopting a “one-size-fits-all” auction approach to central counterparty clearing houses (CCPs).

  • 12 Aug 2019

• Tarbert adds to bench with CFTC hires

  

  The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission has appointed Summer K. Mersinger as director of the office of legislative and intergovernmental affairs and Suyash G. Paliwal as director of the office of international affairs.

  • 08 Aug 2019

• SEF volumes pop up for July

  

  Futures Industry Association data shows that average trading volume on swap execution facilities (SEFs) for July hit its seventh highest level since the trading association's records began.

  • 08 Aug 2019

• Record levels reached in iBoxx TRS

  

  IHS Markit analysis shows that notional iBoxx Total Return Swap contract volumes reached a record peak of $23.9bn in June.

  • 07 Aug 2019

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