Exchanges
Risk 25 firms of the future: GFI Group
Exchange ambitions
Risk 25 firms of the future: i-Swap
Asset-class specialists will struggle
Risk 25 firms of the future: Tradeweb
RFQ supporter hedges its bets
Bloomberg: Approaching the terminal
Approaching the terminal
UBS: Sef aggregation 1.0
Pin money
Fixed-income ETFs lure the bulls, despite outflows
Fixed-income slowdown
ETF providers look to alternative beta
Weighing the alternatives
Absa Capital unveils five ETNs based on precious metals and currencies
Absa Capital has launched five exchange-traded notes, providing investors with exposure to precious metals and currencies.
Available to trade: row over scope of Dodd-Frank execution rules
Available to trade?
Closing price uncertainty hits traders on Hong Kong Stock Exchange
Use of median calculated price and restrictions of trading capacity are causing problems for participants on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange
Q&A – Ice Futures Europe’s David Peniket and Mike Davis
New directions
EC right to block Deutsche Börse-NYSE Euronext deal – Icap's Spencer
Allowing the German and US exchanges to merge would have created a monopoly in European futures markets, says Icap’s chief executive – who also criticises CME Group's dominance of US futures
Global X and the lure of niche exposures
Glittering Global
Interview: CME Group
New directions
HKEx to introduce volatility index futures
HKEx has announced the trading of futures on the Hang Seng volatility index starting from February next year. Market participants say this marks an important first step in the development of Asia-based volatility products
Deutsche Bank launches world's first Pakistan and Bangladesh ETFs
Deutsche Bank has listed four frontier market ETFs in Singapore, two of which give exposure to Pakistan and Bangladesh for the first time
Technology advances at energy exchanges and trading platforms
Powering forwards
Sefs in stasis as final rules edge closer
Sefs in stasis
Asian exchanges could attract more block trades via dark pool tie-ups, says Liquidnet
Liquidnet founder, Seth Merrin, believes Asian exchanges should think ‘bigger picture’ by focusing on reclaiming liquidity from institutional order flows by linking up with dark pools
Brics to cross-list equity derivatives via new alliance
A new ‘Brics exchanges alliance’ has been formed to allow investors to trade equity index derivatives of each participating exchange in local currencies. The move comes as Asian exchanges increasingly are establishing alliances to promote cross-border…