.png){kind=logo}
GC Asia
-
Trad-X adds dealer and client to new Clob
Tradition’s rates trading platform, Trad-X, has signed up Commerzbank and DekaBank to its new dealer-to-client central limit order book (Clob) and has 12 more firms in the pipeline.
25 Feb 2020 -
Eurex hires for buy-side clearing push
Eurex Clearing has hired Nick Barnes from MarketAxess to expand its buy-side presence.
24 Feb 2020 -
Ferber lashes out at ESMA for Ophèle appointment
MEP Markus Ferber has come out swinging at the European Securities and Markets Authority for appointing chief French regulator Robert Ophèle to temporarily chair its central counterparty (CCP) supervisory committee.
24 Feb 2020 -
Swaptions at risk in €STR transition, warns ECB working group
The European Central Bank’s private sector working group on euro risk-free rates has recommended market participants replace Eonia products with €STR-referencing derivatives “as soon as possible” and flagged a threat to swaptions in the transition.
20 Feb 2020 -
Quantile sales chief leaves, old firm breaks rates record
Ian Hunt, global head of sales at Quantile Technologies, has left the firm. This week the compression provider firm broke its own record in a euro rates run.
18 Feb 2020 -
European Commission opens MiFID II consultation
The European Commission has opened a public consultation on MiFIR/MiFID II, as it takes stock of two years of the sweeping regulations.
17 Feb 2020 -
CFTC’s Behnam urges action on Libor fallbacks
US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) commissioner Rostin Behnam has added his voice to the growing clamour for derivatives market participants to find a solution to fallback issues as they transition away from Libor.
13 Feb 2020 -
BoE’s Woods ‘cautiously optimistic’ on EU-UK clearing agreement
Sam Woods, deputy governor at the Bank of England and chief executive of the Prudential Regulatory Authority, this week said he expects an equivalence agreement between the European Union and the UK to be extended beyond September, as both sides want to avoid a “dramatic” fallout.
12 Feb 2020 -
ECB finds market making decline for OTC derivatives
A European Central Bank (ECB) survey has found that market making in over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives decreased last year, but respondents were confident of their ability to support the products during bouts of market stress.
11 Feb 2020 -
ISDA reopens divided pre-cessation consultation after regulator clarity
The International Swaps and Derivatives Association this week said it will make another attempt to finally find industry consensus on a solution to fallback issues in the Libor transition.
06 Feb 2020
