Latest FX derivatives news

• SocGen commits to Eurex futures

  

  Société Générale has extended its clearing and sales offering to enable clients to trade FX futures on Eurex Exchange.

  • 18 Jul 2019

• R.J. O’Brien makes senior hires in Paris push

  

  Futures brokerage R.J. O’Brien has appointed Simon Prangnell to head up its new affiliate company in France.

  • 18 Jul 2019

• Tarbert begins term as CFTC chair, with cross-border in focus

  

  Heath Tarbert this week took over the reins as chairman of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission, becoming the 14th chairman of the CFTC as he succeeded Christopher Giancarlo.

  • 16 Jul 2019

• ESMA slaps Regis-TR with €56,000 fine

  

  The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has fined trade repository Regis–TR €56,000 for failing to provide direct and immediate access to details of derivative contracts to regulators.

  • 15 Jul 2019

• RBC hires Coutte for new trading role

  

  Former Lloyds Banking Group trader Christophe Coutte will join RBC Capital Markets as head of macro trading Europe.

  • 15 Jul 2019

• US lawmakers slam ‘smugness’ of European Commissioner’s clearing comments

  

  Members of the US House Committee on Agriculture reserved harsh words for a chief European regulator on Wednesday, in a sign that the cross-border spat over derivatives clearing has not yet subsided.

  • 27 Jun 2019

• Another CFTC head prepares to leave

  

  Another senior member of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission has left the regulator, as its director of the division of Swap Dealer & Intermediary Oversight (DSIO), Matthew Kulkin, stepped down on Wednesday.

  • 27 Jun 2019

• Eric Pan leaves CFTC for academia

  

  Eric Pan, director of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Office of International Affairs (OIA), is to stand down after nearly four years.

  • 24 Jun 2019

• Tradition goes modular with data offering

  

  After extensive restructuring, interdealer broker Tradition is marketing a modular data product under its market data and information services division, TraditionDATA.

  • 24 Jun 2019

• Clearers finally win relief in leverage ratio battle

  

  The Basel committee on banking supervision has agreed to allow banks to offset the margin posted by clients in calculating the leverage ratio, marking a hard fought victory for the clearing industry.

  • 21 Jun 2019

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