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Market Watch (Free subscription) | yesterday
LONDON (MarketWatch) -- The London Stock Exchange said Wednesday that its fiscal first-half net profit fell 40% to 49.3 million pounds, hit by lower income from equity trading as well as costs related to staff cuts and an acquisition. The group said revenue for the six months to Sept. 30 fell 9.2% to 310.9 million pounds. The exchange operator said the average daily U.K. equity value traded declined...
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Financial Times (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
China's regulatory moves are in stark contrast to the slow pace of reform in derivatives markets in the US and Europe
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Law Blog - WSJ.com (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
The International Swaps and Derivatives Association, the trade group representing the global derivatives markets, appointed Conrad Voldstad as chief executive officer.
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Financial Times (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Signs of new life and stricter regulator standards cannot hide the fact that derivatives markets might not be the big money-spinners they first seemed, writes Jeremy Grant
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Financial Times (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Many of the world's biggest banks are in effect locked out of China's small but fast-growing derivatives markets after refusing to sign new trading agreements
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
ATLANTA, Nov. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- IntercontinentalExchange ® (NYSE: ICE), a leading operator of regulated global futures exchanges, clearing houses and over-the-counter (OTC) markets, today announced that ICE Trust(TM), its North American credit default swap (CDS) clearing house, was named a winner in the 2009 Credit magazine Technology Innovation Awards. Credit is a leading publication...
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SeekingAlpha.com (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
Streetwise Blog submits: The European Commission released its “Communication to a Cast of Thousands” on “ Ensuring efficient, safe and sound derivatives markets: Future Policy Actions .” It is, at best, a series of policy proposals based on nothing more than assertions delivered from on high. These assertions are both logically dubious and completely empirically unsupported....
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
HOUSTON, Oct. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- The US should use caution and avoid draconian position limits on energy holdings when it implements new regulations on derivatives markets, Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) commissioner Bart Chilton told an Argus Media conference on oil market regulation in Houston today.
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Financial Times (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
Regulators have agreed to study whether collateralisation can be expanded in over-the-counter derivatives markets as an alternative to imposing greater capital requirements on the sector
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Financial Times (Free subscription) | 10/04/2009
Some of the world's largest companies would win a crucial trading exemption in the sweeping reforms of the vast over-the-counter derivatives markets under draft legislation before the US Congress
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Financial Times (Free subscription) | 09/23/2009
Brussels will host a debate that seeks a clearer future for the over-the-counter derivatives markets
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Market Watch (Free subscription) | 09/16/2009
FRANKFURT (MarketWatch) -- CME Group Inc. recommended Wednesday the creation of "hard" single exchange position limits for energy products listed at regulated exchanges. CME is also proposing that the exchange administer any tailored hedge exemptions for eligible market participants and that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) be given expanded authority to impose and enforce...
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Financial Times (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
By September 2008, the credit derivatives markets had seen the costs of insuring against a Lehman bankruptcy soar, indicating its likely collapse
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Financial Times (Free subscription) | 09/09/2009
A year after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, which sparked chaos across derivatives markets, one striking dislocation persists; a negative 30-year interest rate swap spread
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BloggingStocks (Free subscription) | 09/01/2009
Filed under: Insiders , Law , Scandals , Financial Crisis Mary Schapiro, chairperson of the the SEC, wants to collect critical data on derivatives transactions to pursue market abuses. Schapiro said that regulators need the data to construct an audit trail to find out who is doing insider trading and market manipulation. The U.S. Senate is investigating the derivatives markets but is up against a...
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